Happy Anniversary to us!

Well, it's been 27 years of wedded bliss today! Hip hip hooray!
We are heading to San Francisco tomorrow to celebrate. We're driving through Lake Tahoe and the gold country which Craig loves on our way there. We'll post pictures after the trip.

Last week we had an appointment with Dr. Jones with the results of the latest CT scan. Reality hit and we were reminded that Craig really does have cancer. He's been feeling pretty good and doing what he wants to do but the tumors are growing. As it says in the radiologist's report: "There is near complete replacement of the upper segments of the right hepatic lobe." Meaning the tumor is taking over the right side of the liver. Unbelievably his liver function is still normal and all other lab results are good. The largest tumor measures 13.2 x 21.0 cm on the right side. That is about the size of two remote controls put together! His left lobe of the liver also has many tumors with one measuring 5.6 x 5.6 cm. The right side of the liver was where the first chemo treatment was focused. We wish she'd done a better job or that Dr. Carlisle had done that side. Craig is reticent to go back for more treatment as he is enjoying life much more now but I really would like to kill some more tumors. To complicate things, Dr. Carlisle has left Huntsman and they don't have an intervention radiologist on staff right now. So we're petitioning the insurance company to use Dr. Carlisle at St. Marks. It just isn't easy getting this all taken care of. Dr. Jones would like to see him get treatment in July...he'd like to wait until September as he had a pretty lousy summer last year. Dr. Jones did tell us that Craig has the largest tumor load in his liver of any of her current patients. Did I mention reality sucks?