Wow - how nice to hear from you all. Today we saw the ENT surgeon and she confirmed with a visual examination and hands on palpitation the good news of the MRI. Even better, she cleared up that my "one year" period started at the surgery and not the clean up Cyberknife so since tomorrow is one year since the surgery, I have finally gone one year without active Cancer. First time in three years !!
In anticipation of the good news, I packed a can of Jevity, a cup and a syringe so I could take my wife out to a celebratory lunch in Georgetown at one of our favorite Indian restaurants, where she had delicious tandoori oven baked eggplant all curried up over rice with onion kulcha bread. Then we stopped off at a upscale consignment place next door and got a designer handbag (PETA friendly)for $15 on sale. To top it off, as I was about to put money into the parking ticket dispenser, a man pulled up in the street, honked and gave us his which still had an hour left on it. He liked my black Aussie hat with the full length Western black duster.
And like the excerpt from the OCF news feed on Roger Ebert I posted in the coping/anger forum, it was a pleasure to watch my caregiver wife eat her meal while I discreetly syringed my Jevity.
So yes, Seda and all the other new comers, there is HOPE even if you get a recurrence - something that our OCF posters demonstrate each and every day.
Charm

Charm,

Charm,

You are now officially in my "what a guy" category. I have been eying a duster for months now to go with my fedora. As I am a huge BSG fan (Google home page) your support of the finer arts was already appreciated, the duster just put you over the top.

Congratulations on the 1 year. Next time you get a chance you should buy something nice for yourself, although I very much understand the concept of; the wife comes first.

Kelly

GREAT NEWS Charm!!!

I'm a tad surprised you didn't tell us that you had a celebratory syringe of wine?

David

It was actually a nice 22 oz bottle of Taj Mahal beer from India. The beer is a little trickier than wine due to the carbonation but the key is judicious application of a napkin over the syringe tip while moving between glass and feeding tube.
You know me too well
Charm

Kelly

Thanks. I think I posted some time ago that the duster was actually a reaction to the uber expensive Burberry et al topcoats that the consultants all wore to my meetings with them when I was a government attorney. There was no way to compete with their bespoke suits and pricey rainment (plus I had zero desire to do so) but striding into a room with that full length black duster and outback black hat, all made out of oil cloth burnished my "hired gun" image as I stood steadfast against their attempts to hijack my office's independent IT shop.
thanks for the kind words. BTW, I was fully prepared to hate Caprica but now I love it. Hmmn, guess which kid character grows up to be an Admiral?
Charm

Charm,

I want to add my Congratulations for your wonderful news! You must have such a sense of relief. On Tuesday, it was 1 year since Richard finished his treatments. It feels like a big milestone. I'll never forget all the support from this forum and you are a big part of all of it. Do you have any exciting plans for the future? Geri