Good luck tomorrow Michael (last one, eh?)!! YAY YAY YAY!!

From our end, Barry is still waiting -- today went down and pieces of the tomo machine were all over the floor. The engineer gave me a short "tour" of the innards of the beast (*very* complicated) and showed me the little piece of metal that sent the whole thing down (sort of a rachet-like gear) -- found out why it wasn't fixed, the guy with the equipment needed to align the beam was in Houston Friday and got captured by Hurricane Rita, and hadn't been able to get to Baltimore until today. Engineer said they'd work all night to get it "up" -- we shall see...

Anyway, you have a well-deserved light at the end of the tunnel -- best wishes to you and Seth and the crew for seeing it through...

Gail and Barry


CG to husband Barry, dx. 7/21/05, age 66, SCC rgt. tonsil, BOT, 2 nodes (stg. IV), HPV+, tonsillectomy, 7x carboplatin, 35x tomoTherapy IMRT w/ Ethyol @ Johns Hopkins, thru treatment 9/28/05, HPV vaccine trial 12/06-present. Looking good!