One Foot In Front Of The Other

While she's out on a new job briefing this morning, Laura wanted me to make a quick update, since many friends and family have been inquiring and I guess we haven't gotten the word out sufficiently. The conclusive lab analysis of the biopsy found absolutely no cancerous cells in the bone marrow sample. We still don't know why there are depleted areas in various bone marrow locations, but no red flags have been raised, and one specialist even suggested that these anomalies shown in the scans are quite "normal".

(As I recuperate from a bad knee sprain that has me completely incapacitated, I'm imagining how many of these anomalies would show up in a bone scan of my thrashed body.)

The doctors are so certain of these positive results that they've scheduled an appointment for the surgery to remove her broviac catheter, or "central line" that is used for administering chemo and drawing her blood (it's a simple outpatient procedure that nevertheless requires general anesthetic). She'll still have scans every three months for two years, and less frequently after that, for which, unfortunately, she'll have to have a regular IV inserted in her arm (something she's not fond of at all, as you can imagine), but this step is a positive one forward, symbolic of the full recovery that we have faith in her having achieved, almost exactly one year to the day.

Congrats, Ms. Millie! Just in time for the holidays, not to mention the full head of hair just waiting to be styled in an Edie Sedgewick pixie do! We love you!