Let the Radiation begin.

Good Day


Here is an inspirational quote for you to enjoy. Listening to this will certainly help you to keep smiling every day.




                                   Regrets...

“Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”

― Miguel Angel Ruiz


     Chemo treatments have been delayed for the past couple of weeks in anticipation of some Radiation. So Monday AM that will begin. Not sure how many rounds yet. This I will know Monday when I get my schedule. Should be 5 - 10 sessions and each session is done daily. So this could all be done by then end of next week then back to Chemo treatments we go. So for now we are just going to continue with these treatments and hope they will endure for an extended period of time. After this there are still some options though limited. Seems this treatment is preventing growth but not clearing the lungs and liver. So that eliminates doing anything besides Chemo or targeted Radiation. Will keep everyone updated to what is going on.


   Now that Thanksgiving and Halloween are over, and the first snow fall has happened the Holiday Season is looming right before us. Time to dig out sweaters, dust off the winter boots and match up

those gloves or mitts. Scarves and some extra warm jackets are always a welcome wardrobe addition, perhaps even some 80's leg warmers. Lets also not forget to make sure we have the scraper handy. The one task this time of year brings us, which we all so do not love, is the dreaded car cleaning. Going outside in the dark early AM The alternative to scraping the windows, though not the most environmental method is to blast the defrost and leave the car run for 10 minutes. Unfortunately I do choose this option most times as it becomes problematic to scrape the windows.

Drive Safe, Stay Warm and you know it.  Keep on Smilin

Jtee

A great way to help in the fight against cancer

Good day

Halloween 2014

Here is an inspiring quote to ponder.

Disappointments... 
 “I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.” Rashida Jones 

Update on me and of course my always beautiful Teresa.

Overall things have been going good.  We are settled into our new home and getting comfortable in KW once again.  It has taken some time to feel like we are home.  It took just as long to settle in once we arrived in Regina - then it seemed like it was time to go.  As you can see we were Shrek and Princess Fiona for Halloween and Caity made it a trio as Donkey.  The Halloween part we were at we won best costume.  All the credit goes to Teresa was her great idea.
Next week is back in for treatment of some sort.  There maybe a round of radiation next week and a hold on chemo.  The radiation is to help with some pain and perhaps slow growth of the main tumor.  Yupp the roller coaster of being sick is never dull.  You never know what to expect. There have been days in emerg due to a fever which was determined no cause just a fever.  Days of concern due to a cold or others having a cold.  Days of being tired due to hemoglobin counts being low, which then leads to a blood transfusion.  Never a dull moment.

Otherwise we are good and now starting to get ready for Christmas.  Looking forward to having Teresa's folks, John and Cathy with us for the Holidays.  Going to be a great Christmas with everyone together. 

Now here is a simple way you can be a part in the fight against Cancer.  The only cost maybe a little Hydro.

Help in the fight against Cancer with your Screen Saver. 

The current project is Mapping Cancer Markers and goes directly back to Princess Margaret. Once you install the app and follow the basic instructions for setup it runs as your screen saver.  Double check your screen saver settings and that is it.  You are now participating in the fight against Cancer everyday - it is that easy. 

Once you join the efforts by clicking here -  Join Now you can download the program.

The benefit of what the project is

Mapping Cancer Markers on World Community Grid aims to identify the markers associated with various types of cancer. The project is analyzing millions of data points collected from thousands of healthy and cancerous patient tissue samples. These include tissues with lung, ovarian, prostate, pancreatic and breast cancers. By comparing these different data points, researchers aim to identify patterns of markers for different cancers and correlate them with different outcomes, including responsiveness to various treatment options.

This knowledge can help researchers and physicians to:

*   Improve and personalize cancer treatment: by making it possible to detect cancer earlier, identify high-risk patients, and to customize treatment based on a patient's personal genetic profile.

*   Accelerate cancer research and improve the overall process for identifying markers: by refining the process of identifying markers, researchers can determine an individual patient's markers more easily, and future large sets of data can be analyzed more efficiently.

 

 Keep on smilin and keep on helping others to smile.

jt