Summer was a real high

I didn't realize that I hadn't put anything here since June. I had an amazing summer and am so grateful for that. I played a lot of golf. I seem to have lost a lot of my game during my year of IL-2 therapy but still could enjoy being out on a beautiful day with friends on the golf course. I joined a new team to play in the Corvallis Women's Best ball tournament and we ended up third out of 40 teams...lots of fun. Lynda Warren and I left the day after the tournament for a cruise from Moscow to St. Petersburg. It was a wonderful trip: great weather, amazing group, new friends, informative Russian tour guides, and lots of amazing places to visit and photograph.

I got home with two days to try to get over jet lag and do my laundry and headed to Palo Alto to my nieces wedding. It was such a lovely affair...just the wedding they wanted...in a redwood grove with a small group of family and friends...camping out and barbecuing food and just enjoying each others company.

Returned to Portland to have PET/CT scans. The great news was that they showed no new tumors... the disquieting news was that the uptake in my C6 vertebra was still there. I was overjoyed at the first news and didn't think too much about the second. I allowed myself to get hopeful that I might be one of the small percent of people who respond to IL-2 and go into complete remission.