loving this weather...

(that would be tammy NOT tim talking) this has to be my second favorite time of the year...right next to the first major snow-fall. poor tim is not adjusting very well to this weather.

we are heading into another weekend and all is well (i guess). our oncologist is heading to the bahamas and tim is wishing he was going with him...nothing really new or exciting to report. we are going to follow-up with the endoscopy guy hopefully next week and see what is next. it seems as though we are going to be heading towards a very "gentle" stretching of the esophagus may be in the near future (along with new biopsies).

we have been seeing this same doctor now for quite awhile and every time we leave his office we try to go someplace to sit and re-hash what was said...some times we are on the same page and other times it is like we were in two different places. it seems like he occasionally talks in "code" and we sit and try to figure out what he meant by this or by that...but the last two appts we have both left with the SAME impression of what the doctor is saying:

after the exam is all over he pulls up a stool and leans against the wall and crosses his legs...and begins to tell us how "surprised" he is that this chemo is lasting this long. very glad, of course, but surprised. he makes sure we are aware of the fact that he feels tims body is in a constant battle which he calls "graft vs lymphoma". (meaning that tim's transplant has stopped picking on tims body which is "graft vs host" and has now kicked it up a notch and is fighting the lymphoma which is the "graft vs lymphoma").

although he never actually used the words "volcano waiting to errupt"...this is the general impression that we both have gotten. nothing really had changed in the recent past (other than the esophagus issues) but for some reason our doc has felt the need TWICE now to make sure that we remember that we are in a constant battle...who knows???

why do i tell you all this...i guess to remind you all out there to keep praying for us. we thank GOD each and every day for getting tim this far...but we are not satisfied with playing the waiting game...we want the cancer gone.

keep tim in your prayers...always.

enjoy your weekend...i will try to keep tim warm.

thanks for checking in.

tim and tammy