As for my health - I don't know much I didn't know before. I'm waiting for a second opinion on the reading of the CT scan and then a plan of action. It will probably primarily include chemotherapy (new drug since the first ones weren't effective) that will hold up tumor growth, and possibly surgery. They do want to continue to be aggressive due to my (relatively =)) young age and otherwise good health. I shall keep posting as I know more, but I am feeling very, very good and am as happy and contented as ever. Those aren't just words - - we really are doing well. Probably largely thanks to all of you and your many thoughts our way.
THANK YOU!
Here's a beautiful photo I took today. I think he was posing. He stayed here for ages...
We had the funniest experience last night. Some person stops outside our driveway and turns off their headlights at about 10:45 pm. We're thinking, 'hmmm, this is ODD... and potentially not good." So out we go to investigate and we find:
A scantily clad man with a prosthetic leg who was under the influence of many questionable substances by the look and smell of him, stumbling around in the dark near his RV which is now at an extremely perilous 45-degree angle in the ditch outside our house. It's maintaining its precarious balance only by the amount of mud, dirt and weeds that is piled along the down side of the vehicle. When we arrive he tells us, "wow, these things can sure get kinda rough to handle after you've 'had a few'. I just couldn't quite make the corner there!"
[Important side note: this is no 'corner there'. We're on a very straight section of the road, so his recently ingested substances were evidently causing him some confusion or hallucinations.]He is screaming (literally) at his wife/girlfriend/slave/pet telling her it's her fault somehow. (Maybe because she keeps saying, 'the reason you didn't make the turn is because there WASN'T one' and this angers him more every second, until submissive silence finally overcomes her drunken stubborness.)
[Fast forward or this story could go on forever... ] After he's told it really wouldn't be a good idea to try to pull the RV out in the middle of the night in his ... um... "poor mental state", this is his drunken response: "Oh! I know !!! Why don't we instead just roll it CLEAR over. Onto its wheels!!!"
Why what brilliance! Now there, folks, is a man with a plan! I look at him and I think, why on earth did I marry dear Andy when there are such flawless specimens out there waiting to be caught?!
[Another side note] Andy just asked me what I was typing and when I told him he says, 'tell them about the part where I beat the guy up for driving drunk and gave him an invitation to meeting'
hee hee. =) But what he actually said this morning after he helped them get out was even better. Instead of allowing the guy to pay him he said, "Mister, I don't want your money. I just want you to tell me that you will never come around here again. This is where I raise my family and if I do see you anywhere near here, I will call the police". Gotta love these wonderful hubbies!
Here's a photo of Andy's assistance with their morning's rescue. It'll give you a bit of an appreciation for our excitement and maybe you can see a little of how straight the road is in front of our place. The foreground is just our little driveway, not the main road. Yippee!! Never a dull moment. =)
