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Happy Thanksgiving!

First and foremost, Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone had a great day and got to eat a lot of great food. I know I did. I took it upon myself to eat enough food for every starving person on this planet (and then some). I always enjoy spending Thanksgiving with my family and this year I have so much to be thankful for. Mark got some exciting news on Wednesday. Instead of trying to explain, I'm just going to copy and paste my mom's email with the details:

Mark will no longer be a participant in the clinical trial. He is ecstatic to
be done with the IL2 treatments! Since the last time his cancer was
stable and this time one of his lymph nodes was slightly enlarged, he
is no longer eligible to continue. That is O.K. though, since they
think the enlargement was due to Mark's port infection, not due to
the cancer. The oncologist wants him to have new CT scans done in a
month (on Dec. 23, to be exact), and then we will know if the lymph
node is normal or not. If it is not, it will be removed surgically.
The oncologist is still very optimistic, because she has seen a case
just like this, where infection was the cause of the enlargement.
That patient's later scans were perfect. Dr. Kendra still believes
Mark will be a "total responder". There was no new cancer, and the
other places where the cancer existed before are gone now.
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Okay, so let's play a little thanksgiving game. Now that you all know what I'm thankful for, it's your turn. Post a comment telling what you are thankful for this Thanksgiving. You better do it....

Comments

Anonymous said…
I am thankful for Camel Light cigarettes!
11/26/2005 8:04 PM
Anonymous said…
I am thankful that my car does not need to be jumped every time I start it
11/28/2005 1:10 PM
Anonymous said…
I am thankful for having my digital camera!
11/28/2005 7:46 PM
Anonymous said…
I am thankful for Emily's blogs and for being surrounded by love when I feel so undeserving 39% of the time. ;)
12/15/2005 11:06 PM
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