Tuesday, March 25, 2014

A bit of new news ...

I am getting stronger every day and relying on pain medicine less and less so that is good news.  I have been able to go on walks every day since I got home from the hospital and several were over an hour long.   Last weekend was busy with a lacrosse tournament and a track meet on Saturday for my daughters.  I went to both events, but only got a picture at the track meet.  My Mom and my runner girl, Katie, are in the picture with me.  I have NOT shrunk - we are standing on stadium steps and I am still taller than both of them!

I did get some bad news today, though, that the cancer has spread outside of the colon.  Of the 25 lymph nodes that the surgeon removed to test for cancer cells, 3 tested positive.  I don't know much more than that except that I will have to have another round of chemotherapy after I heal from the surgery.   I don't return to Duke for a followup appointment with the surgeon and my oncologist until April 10th, so I probably won't know anything more until then.

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