Weekend Update Sunday June 5

Fun Update:  Somehow Memorial Day flew past with no update from me!  Well we had a lovely weekend going out on the boat (I basically sat in one place) one of the days and enjoying a barbeque with friends another.  Last week Emma had several eight grade end of year activities including a cruise in Boston and a trip to Canobie Lake Amusement Park.  This coming week is graduation week with a dinner on Tuesday and the ceremony on Thursday night.  Emma is wrapping up her Spring rowing.  She had a regatta this past Saturday and it was simply a beautiful day.  Joe starts work later this month and Jim has been keeping him busy with projects around the house/yard.  This past weekend however was all fun as Jim, Joe and several of Joe's friends went out on the boat.  Today (Sunday 6/5) is a gloomy, rainy day and I have high hopes of getting the house straighted up.

Medical Update:  It has been a little over a month since my return from the last hospitalization.  Over the last year and a half I've had a pattern of the disease being very active => aggressive chemo treatment => recovery => disease recurring at a low level that is manageable => some type of immune acceleration therapy or outpatient maintenance chemo => disease initially responds but begins to grow again => aggressive/toxic chemo.  Right now I am in the recovery phase which has taken a bit longer since I added 2 1/2 months to my hospital stay with a blood infection. 

The treatments have not completely eradicated the disease.  However I continue to show signs of recovery both physically and with the disease being at  relatively low level.  I feel so much better physically and will find out what the next round of treatments will entail probably this week.

Thanks for checking in

Love Maureen