Giving it a whirl!

I've been meaning for a while to try & keep better contact with out of town family & friends about the goings on with our family and so am going to give blogging a whirl.

For those of you we haven't talked to in a while (or since our Christmas newsletter), here is what has been going on with us. I found a lump (again!) in my armpit on Christmas Eve & saw the doctor later that week. It turned out to be cancerous (again!) and so we did the whole round of tests in early January & started chemo (again!) at then end of the month. This time I am on an experimental drug - Avastin - that I get by IV once every three weeks and an approved breast cancer drug - Navalbene - for two weeks on one week off. The good news is that within the first two treatments, the tumor I could feel at Christmas had shrunk to where I couldn't find it at all. And an enlarged lymph node they were concerned about shrunk during the 6-weeks between scans. So, we are optimistic that this time we have finally found the right treatment. I'm tolerating the chemo pretty well, but am awfully tired. Both sets of parents are helping out (again!) and have really lightened our load. I'm still working 60% time and am have adjusted my hours to where I mostly work in the afternoons. This works out really well because I can be home in the mornings with Hadley & Ian when I am the freshest & have the most energy and then can come & just sit in front of a computer in the afternoons.

I'll try to update this regularly and let you know how we all are doing. Pictures are coming in the next post too!