Santa Dash welcomed Christmas for us easing the loss of his storied Momma, DB.
I was recovering nicely from neck surgery and though worries remained, I was looking ahead. Notice the past tense.
January brought the poor news that the sarcoma was sprinkling nodes in my lungs and no one wanted to surgically address that. Chemo was not working. My system was just not bouncing back between doses.
Finally, the sarcoma tumor returned to my neck. I went to the UT Med Branch at Brackenridge knowing I was not alone in my neck. Sure enough it was back. The resident doctor who announced the results to me looked in shock. I clearly instructed her to begin contacting my local oncologist immediately. She did.
Radiation treatments to shrink or slow the tumor progress were set up at Austin Cancer Center. I just finished my last of 25 treatments. I await arrangements for an assessment of progress.
So 2011 did not start as I had hoped.
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