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Back from Paris, Back from Houston

As usual, summer is flying by. It felt like a few hours ago that I was eating tasty food, visiting museums, seeing the sites and hanging out with Jill & Ben in the quaint cafes of Paris. We had a fantastic vacation… something we all needed this year. We were there for 10 days and [...]

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Chemo, Tooth, San Fran, Houston, oh my!

Where to begin? First, my apologies for the long delay in updates. As has been the case lately, work eats up a lot of time, and by the end of the day chemo has me exhausted. So at night instead of being social I’m either sleeping or watching Glee (or Nurse Jackie, or United States [...]

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Houston, Round 5 of Chemo

Just got back tonight from another visit to Houston. I flew down on Wednesday night on what has become the same set of flights as almost all of my visits to M.D. Anderson. Upon arrival I was given a gigantic, white police car (i.e. crown victoria) to drive around instead of the tiny economy I [...]

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Three Years Ago

Just a quick post to say Happy Valentine’s Day to those of you who are celebrating. As you probably know, for me this day is more about my anniversary than anything. Three years ago at about this time I was back in my hospital room after finishing up surgery. It seems like forever in some [...]

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Happy New Year – Take Two

January sucked. It’s that simple. It was a reminder of how ridiculously short/painful/trying life can be. It started with the continuation of my chemo cycles and an overwhelming amount of work. And it turned into the most difficult loss our family has ever experienced, through the passing of my sister & brother-in-law’s unborn son. It [...]