SEMB Update 2007
New Year’s greetings to one and all and you and yours. With any luck at all, this will be my only update on us in 2007, until you receive a surprisingly cute and witty Christmas card from us late in the year. Or maybe it’s a cute and surprisingly witty Christmas card. Or maybe it’s just cute. Whatever.
Sarah had another CT scan about a week ago. The spots continue to shrink! While continuing this course of treatment, we also continue to investigate other options for down the road. We will continue the route of having CT scans every 3-6 months to track things and reevaluate as new opportunities present themselves. We’ve also forwarded the updated information to the physicians we saw previously in Baltimore and New Orleans to see if their earlier recommendations are affected. Good news.
In new news, Sarah had a mammogram last week which raised a few questions. We met with a surgeon here in town last week, with the possibility raised of DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ), and a biopsy was scheduled for yesterday. Sarah just heard from the radiologist a few minutes ago, and the biopsy was negative. In this case, Sarah is seeing doctors at Boone Hospital Center and they are likely going to recommend a further biopsy just to be safe given the medical history. They are being extra careful, for which we’re grateful. The doc did indicate, however, that he would be surprised if the further biopsy contradicted the first results. More good news.
(I started to explain what DCIS was, but google that term if you like. Lots of answers there. Google is Scandinavian for good news.)
Since I’m sending no more updates this year, here’s what you’ll be missing:
- We’re going to Oklahoma City in March for the Big 12 basketball tournaments. We hear OKC is nice. We’re doubtful.
- “OKC” makes me think of something that ‘gangsta’ suburbanites from Overland Park would call themselves.
- At that tournament, the basketball Tigers will continue their late-season run into the NCAA tournament.
- The Tigers will start that late-season run into the NCAA tournament any day now.
- Also at that tournament, I will become physically ill at the sight of Sooner Red, OSU Orange, UT Orange, and the mythical shoe-wearing birds all interspersed around me.
- Jack Thayer turns 2 in June and Adelaide turns 5 in September.
- Sarah & Jason also continue to age, but have stopped bragging about it.
- The football Tigers will reach the elusive 14-0 mark in 2007. I hope to make at least 10 of those games.
- I’ll fail in my efforts to provide no more updates, likely caused at least in part by my wanting to gloat over a MU victory. Now that’s good news.