Hello all...

One more chemo treatment and three more radiation appointments, and I AM DONE with this latest -- and hopefully final -- round of treatments...

After living out of hotels for six weeks (thank God for the Tour de France and Olympics!), I am so ready to get on with my life and come on home for good...

Actually, my 50-minute radiation treatments weren't all that bad. I just kicked back, tried to stay still and listened to tunes the entire time. I only had to ask them to stop the beam once, and that's because I felt my head slide a bit after swallowing too hard. Whoops!

It was a pleasant surprise when my radiation tech told me this past Wednesday that my last five treatments were only going to last 15 minutes because they were just giving me a boost to the tumor-bed area... I felt like I was cheating or something the first day of the boost, but I wasn't complaining...

I'd be a lot more excited if I didn't have this third round of chemo coming up as well... It definitely takes my stomach for a ride for a week or so... which means I don't eat much... which means I lose more weight... which means doctors and others heckle me about that more and more... arrggg...

Anyway, I covered a high school football game for my newspaper on Friday night, and felt pretty good working a 7.5 hour day today (Saturday) getting the paper out. Can't wait to get back to that normal routine...

MRI scheduled for a month from now, with a PET probably in two months or so...

Thanks, everyone, for your encouragement during this time...