Happy 70th Birthday Dorothy!

Dorothy's Birthday Brunch with the Andersons, Lee, Ann and their daughter Mona!

Dorothy took Amtrak from Merced and arrived here in SB yesterday! This morning we had old friends over for brunch. We celebrated Mom's great recovery and Dorothy's birthday. Lee & Ann Anderson live in Merced.  Lee worked with Mom, Dorothy and my Aunt Velma in the Merced schools for many many years. Lee & Ann's daughter, Mona, lives in Santa Barbara. They were visiting Mona & her 3 kids this week.

After brunch, the girls packed up Mom's car and hit the road. Mom took ALL of her belongings. I must say I was a bit lost today, so grateful that the plan worked and the cancer is gone and Mom is back in her own darling house in Merced. I do miss her already. Fortunately, she will be back soon and stay for the first few weeks of her new chemo. At dinner tonight Jonas said "To be honest with you, I thought Gma was going to take Dorothy to her house and come back here." The boys aren't thrilled about Gma leaving although  they 'get' that it is b/c the treatment worked. Chyio  stuck close to me today after Mom left. The biggest question was "who will Chyio sleep with?" As I type this, he is snuggled in tight with Jack. 
This journey will continue but for now we would like to say THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts for supporting us thru these last 7 months. We felt your love and it was priceless. 

Dorothy arrives

Watching Jack's 1st regular season game with Dorothy!

Pre Birthday drinks for Dorothy!

Our Daily Book

Daily reading!

Jack & Jonas both love reading! We thank Gma for ALL the hours she reads with them!
All 3 boys LOVE reading books!

Complete Remission!

Celebration at Starbucks!

It's a beautiful March day!

The Dr. told us that the PET Scan showed complete remission! He said this is the best possible outcome! There are holes or open spaces in the bone, where the tumors use to be and in time scar tissue will fill that area. In 3-4 weeks he will start Mom on a oral chemo that is milder (with side effects).
Mom wanted to celebrate at Starbucks!
It's a happy day!

PS---more great news----She was BRCA negative!

Fasting is no fun

Love from Lisa (flowers) & Dawn (banana bread and cookies)!

2 boys feeling under the weather, snuggles with Gma

Mom could not eat any carbs or sugar yesterday and could eat NOTHING TODAY.
This morning I found these 2 little boys snuggling with Mom. Of course, it makes sense that she stay away from sick boys but that is not how she rolls.
Sweet friends brought Mom Flowers and sweets to have when she returns home from her test!
We hope to have the results at the Dr appt on Wednesday.

PET SCAN is scheduled

We just scheduled the PET SCAN for Monday March 5th, 2:00pm.
This is the test that requires a fasting from sugar and all carbs for 24 hours before the tests.

Throw up prayers, send good thoughts and work the beads for this test to show us the good word!

Play offs

Cheering Jack on in his play off basketball game!

This week both Jonas & Jack have both baseball and basketball games and practice. It's a busy (but fun) week. Tonight was the first of Jack's basketball play off games. Jack's team won (by 20 points).


Last night Mom finished reading Cutting for Stone, a 600 page book (which I LOVED TOO). Mom read it all in 4 days! This is a great indicator that she is making strides back to her pre treatment self. She has ALWAYS been a voracious reader but during the last 6 and half months of pain meds and PAIN she was not reading many books. She would read short magazine articles or emails and blogs. So it was fun to see that she couldn't put the book down!