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Some more updates

Well, it's 38.3°F this morning, and I doubt I'll be going out for a ride at my normal time, so I thought I'd take the extra time to do a little rambling.

First off, as most of my regular visitors should have already noted, I've finally decided on a new theme. There are still some more improvements I need to make, as time goes on, but for now I am happy with it.

Yesterday, Edie got a letter in the mail, formally denying her transplant. That wasn't unexpected, and may actually have been welcome, if you remember from my last post. She also had an appointment with her oncologist yesterday, where they discussed how to proceed.

Edie is in at least a partial remission, so they both decided it's best to stop all treatments for now, and see what transpires over the next several weeks/months and hopefully years. This should give the neuropathy more time to improve, and the heart damage to reverse itself. There is strong evidence for both this will occur.

So here we are in what is called the wait and watch (aka worry) mode. We're still planning on going to New Zealand the last two weeks in March, but I'm trying to convince Edie we should move the trip up a few weeks. I sure would like to get away from this brutally cold winter, which seems to have no end in sight, for a couple of weeks. After all, it is summer in New Zealand.

Edie's nueropathy is still presenting some problems for her, so that is my one concern. I would like to see her feeling better before we take the trip, but who knows, the warmer weather in New Zealand may actually help.

I know it will help me!
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Becky said…
I like it! But it is your blog so do what you must.

I don't understand how an HMO denial is a good thing, though, unless they denied her because of her remission.

You should be proud of me because I organized a hike today. We're going to hike in the Santa Monica National Park and I hope to get my knitsters sisters to do it every weekend.

We shall see.
12:40 AM
Marc said…
They denied her because of the heart problem. We already knew they were going to, and the letter was just a formality.

And if you read my previous post, you'll know why we think it was a good thing.

Remember, it's all about fate.

And just to prove I know what I'm talking about, there was a crash early on during the club ride this morning. Fortunately I decided not to go the normal time, and met the group after the crash.

If I had gone earlier, I might have been in it, but that was just not to be.
2:48 AM
Alan said…
Yep, you did good this time. I like it.
8:09 PM
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