Loose Strife

After talking to a friend who follows this blog by email, it occurred to me that many of you haven’t read all the comments on the previous post. So let me recap: Laura and I went to the ER at Brigham-Women’s Hospital in Boston (the hospital affiliated with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, across the street) on […]

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It has been a frustrating week long wait in which Laura’s neurosurgeon, great as he might be with a knife, failed to act to get her in front of a neurologist as her legs have continued to decline. (Laura fell 2 nights ago. She didn’t hurt herself, but is now using a walker and is […]

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Yesterday Laura went to her first physical therapy meeting without any certainty that her problem was truly muscular, but it was at least determined that Laura’s upper legs are very weak. She can’t squat at all, for example. We knew that. Laura got a cane. Laura’s brain CT came back clear. This morning she met […]

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Just some photos that I took today of the birthday girl that turned out really well, I think. (Click for larger slideshow.)

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The last ten days or so have been warm and sunny causing spring to finally burst in New England. The trees are budding, the grass turned from brown to green seemingly overnight, the peepers are singing by the pond. Everything has just popped and it’s been a wonderful and welcome sight. This past week was […]

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Sorry for taking so long to post about Laura’s MRI scan results. The originally scheduled MRI last Thursday had to be rescheduled to this past Tuesday and we just got the results today. The MRI confirms the PET/CT scans indicating that cancer is stable. Recall that there were three concerns with her back that prompted […]

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February photos are finally posted. You’ve seen many of these already.

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Laura and I met with her oncologist this morning to review her latest tests. Laura’s breast cancer marker went down again — it’s essentially in the normal range. This is good news since she hasn’t been on any chemo treatment, only a hormonal treatment that shuts down her ovaries. Better still, her PET/CT scan seems […]

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Photos from our week in Kauai are now available. More photos from the rest of our trip will show up some time later. I’d appreciate any good photos from others, too. We often didn’t have our camera or missed a memorable shot. Drop me an email (no attachments larger than a few MB, please), send […]

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At last we’re home again! All the way from Boston until the turnoff to Ashfield there wasn’t a spot of snow on the ground. But as we left the Connecticut River and headed up the mountain the snow was very present. There were still several inches on the ground when we pulled up to the […]

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