9/15/11

Last week was one of the first weeks in a long time that I had no doctors appointments. I am still feeling good and my running has been more consistent.

So with no appointments last week I am trying to make up for it this week. I had a follow up with the neurosurgeon yesterday that went very well. He said he didn't need to see me again for 4 months. Today I had a follow up with the radiologist and he has given me a pass for 3 months. I was suppose to have blood drawn today but Duke needs samples from 9/19 and 9/26 so we are waiting until Monday.

Speaking of Duke, trying to get into a clinical trial has been a real start - stop process. The latest is I am waiting to be accepted into the trial designed to fight the specific marker found in my tumor. Dr. Baeker has been in touch with the doctor at Duke as well as Dr. Reardon (who has since moved on to Boston) and everyone is in agreement that my current Temador treatment, while waiting for me to be accepted into the trial, is the best course of action. Hopefully this is going to happen soon.

In the meantime there has been some good news and good times over the past couple of weeks.

The good news is that over the last week and a half I have reconnected with a couple of friends from high school. Dave Bolin lives about 30 miles from us and Marti and I are having lunch with Dave and his wife on Saturday. I can remember at least two occasions of riding in Dave's trunk during high school. Once was sneaking into a drive in movie and once was after a pick up football game in the rain and Bolin wouldn't let any of us sit in his car. I think there were 3 of us in trunk.

I have also heard from Cliff Staton who ran track and played football at West Lafayette (as did Bolin). Although I think Staton and I really came into our own during intramural basketball. Cliff is flying in from San Francisco to run the race in November.

The good times were last weekend when Marti and I met some other couples at a wine tasting and then later in the weekend I served beer at the local arts festival. Plus I got a 7 mile run in on Sunday.

This weekend my goal is a 9 miler.

Thanks for enduring the rambling post and thank you so much for caring.