Happy, Happy Day!

Happy Holidays to all,

I just left my oncologists office where I got the best news possible. The drug Leukine, diet, accupuncture, herbs, meditation, and your prayers and healing energy have all combined to help my immune system arrest the melanoma metastasis. I have only one new tumor and all the existing tumors have shrunk or disappeared.

So I toast you all for your support and caring. I will continue to follow this regime and live each moment to the fullest until my next scans three months from now. I see no reason not to believe that I can continue to live fully for years to come.

REPRIEVE – What a glorious summer!

It is hard to believe that it has been almost 6 months since my first blog entry. At that time, I had expected that I would have had a summer full of experimental trial therapy and/or hospitalizations with lost of posts and updates on my progress.

As you can read…that was not the case

Since in July I didn’t have a tumor big enough to qualify for a vaccine trial and I was feeling so good, my oncologist and I decided that I should just enjoy my summer and wait to see what the scans in early September would show. I did, however, continue on the drug Leukine and began practicing meditation, imagining work, and Qigong in earnest.

My summer was filled with lots of golf, time with my two wonderful grandchildren, and many walks on the beach at our home on the Oregon Coast. My children threw the most wonderful 65th birthday party for me (when I was diagnosed in 2000, few thought I would live to 60, let alone 65). As my daughter said, this was a summer for making wonderful memories.

Although the results of my scans in September weren’t great, they weren’t that bad either. I had a few new hot spots in various lymph nodes (but none in any organs), but the tumors from the June scan had either not grown or had shrunk. I WAS THRILLED!

So this fall, I have continued on the same therapy, living each day to the fullest. I am waiting to see what my scans in December show. I believe the help, support, prayers, healing vibrations from friends and family have a great deal to do with my body fighting these tumors…Let’s hope that I have the upper hand by December!