This was a difficult winter for me. My wonderful partner Red died of metastasized prostate cancer on February 13th. The last conscious thing that he did was to order a dozen roses for me for Valentine's day and insist that his daughter make a celebratory dinner of crab for everyone. I miss him terribly.
Right after the funeral, I returned to OHSU to have aother metastasis removed from my left knee.
The March PET/CT scans showed no new tumors and decreased activity in those noted before. We were elated that perhaps the Leukine therapy was preventing metastasis to organs but not to subcutaneous tissue. I was beginning to find myself again and decided to go to Spain and Portugal with my sister and her husband. It was a fabulous trip...everything was perfect..the weather, the food, the sightseeing, the interactions!!! I returned feeling really upbeat about my future. I was so hopeful that my regime of meditation, diet, exercise, and Leukine therapy was really helping my body to fend off the melanoma metastases
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