Lymph Nodes

Well, I was hoping to show you guys a picture of the adnopothy surrounding my porta hepatis, but - alas - I sent them on up to NIH.

I had been a bit worried about them since the last week's radiology report showed that they grew in size by 50% in the 4 weeks between my pre-Australia and post-Australia scans. However, I looked at them w/ my Dr. today, and they don't look so bad. Also, he explained that these are, basically, enlarged lymph nodes. It could be tumors that's enlarging them, bit it could also be swelling caused by the body's fight against the cancer elsewhere - there's no way to know. Either way, it's not good that they're getting bigger, but it's not as bad as it could be. So, the deal is that we're staying the course w/ Avastin and 5-FU/etc.

In other news, this past July 4th, I helped my other cancer-budy Andrea check off one of her bucket-list items (not that I want her to get through the list... maybe just most of the way through). Here's before (check out the look :):

During....
And after... We had a great ride. It was her first, ever, motorcyle ride and I know it helped that we were BOTH chock-full of opiate pain killers.

While we're at it. Mom and dad saw us on our open-air moterized vehicles and decied to ride their own down to the 4th-of-July picnic. It didn't seem like quite the same thing, but they seemed to be enjoying themselves.