Moving On

Happy Holidays to All:



As mentioned in my last post we've been sprung and we're taking advantage of that. We spent the week before T-Day at the river just hanging out doing a little cleaning but that was about it. Amazing how a house can get dirty even though you're not there, of course the yard is a different story that never ceases to create work for us.



We got back Thursday so we could meet with Ret's primary in Edmonds on Friday and you would have thought she was one of their lost children, hugs, kisses and a great deal of emotions as well. It was good to be back! I will tell you however that I was amazed, I don't know why though, that Eileen Ret's doc knew every detail of our three month odyssey at SCCA. It is so refreshing and meaningful how they track your progress and communicate that to all involved.



We really haven't cut ties completely with SCCA/Hutch we have a few more procedures we need to complete that I'll briefly talk about. But in addition they want Ret to go on a clinical study involving two cancer med's that have been used to help keep Ret's type of cancer at bay for the long term. While they believe these two med's have been effective in doing just that they have not been used in concert and that is what they want to measure. It depends on how you look at these things and certainly everyone involved has an opinion but at this point the comment from Ret was she doesn't want to be a Guinea Pig and I'll leave it at that.



As they do, the SCCA manages your complete health care, meaning if there are any normal types of tests one should have just for general health maintenance you get it. Well Ret's mammogram came back with a couple areas of concern, a cyst in one breast and what they say looks like a possible calcium deposit in the other. She'll have biopsy's done this next week and the obvious diagnosis will me made, however they do say in both cases they are not overly concerned.



As always thanks to all for your continued support you really don't know what it means!!



Love,

Ret & Jack