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First off.....let me apologize for the previous blog post. I was working on that blog for about 2 days while we were in the hospital. The computer went into sleep mode, and the mouse happened to be right on the "publish now" button, and before I knew it the blog went live. And that is why you all ended up with an unedited, unfinished blog, but who really cares right? I guess you could say that I had a pretty good excuse, seeing that I only had about 4 hours of sleep or so. Just don't want the readers thinking I am a bigger ditz then I really am.

So back to the dirt....On Tuesday B and I waited all day to meet with a new Dr., Dr. # 12. Let me say, that we have waited a long time to meet a Dr. like Dr. # 12. He was so kind and so understanding. He actually pulled up a chair and sat in B's room for almost 45 minutes to get a full understanding on what is really going on. He promised to get B out of pain and back to living. He told B and I that it is ridiculous to think that just because B has cancer meant that he was going to have to live in extreme pain. Dr. # 12 said that he has a ton of tricks in his bag and he has never had a patient take him to the bottom of the bag. He was motivating, and moving. He told B that cancer should not define you. He said that B should still have goals and dreams. Dr. # 12 brought D Bone to tears. It has been so long that B has had pain, that the thought of taking that pain away seems unreachable. Dr. # 12 is an angel. He immediately changed B's meds and said that he was going to start from scratch and was going to work very hard to take the pain away. His goal is to have B leave the hospital without pain.

Tuesday we also met with an Orthopaedic Spine Dr....Dr. # 13. He too was very nice and reported that B's neck was fine and that it was no longer necessary to wear his lovely Miami J collar. That's right, B was wearing a collar that you see most car accident patient's in. It was bulky and uncomfortable. B had to wear that collar through the night on Monday and through most of the day on Tuesday. Dr. # 13 also reported that there were no new neck/spine lesions....I started to allude to that in the previous blog.

Lastly we met with Dr. # 4 around 6:45 pm on Tuesday. This was the Dr. that we waited all day to meet with. Dr. # 4 had the results from the CT Scan. Part of us really wanted to hear what he had to say, however a large part of us really didn't want to hear what he had to say. Dr. # 4 walked in the room and you could hear a pin drop. B, D-Bone, and I anxiously awaited to hear what he had to say.....so here we go. Dr. # 4 said that as of today the cancer is controlled. He said that they did not see any new spots. Dr. # 4 said all in all this was a good scan. He had hoped to see some change in the size of the tumors....of course smaller, but he was pleased that no new growth or spots were detected. He reported that we were going to stick with this chemo and see where it takes us. Can you say thank GOD. I mean, thank you GOD literally. Dr. # 4 also said that just because the lesions weren't smaller today, doesn't mean that they will not be smaller in the future. So this is good news.

B is still yet to be discharged. As it stands he is scheduled to be discharged tomorrow. Dr. # 12 wants to be sure that B is pain free, so I am up here at the hospital again just chilling. B's spirits are better and just a few minutes ago he was trying to throw green beans into my mouth....however I really suck at catching them. It is nice to catch a glimpse of the old B, the B I fell in love with. He is my everything so to see his health improve is the best anniversary present I could ever get. I can't wait for him to come home. Sleeping alone and without the dog, who happens to be on vacation at my parents house, really stinks. I mean don't get me wrong, I would love to stay at the hospital with B, which both D Bone and I did on Monday, however with me back to work, it is really hard getting any sleep. I have been ordered back to my own bed and back to work by B himself.

So I guess you could say that we got some good news. And our love continues to grow stronger each day. I am better every day for having B and for having such a wonderful family.

And just to add icing to the cake, B got offered an official full time position at Grand Valley as a professor for the hospitality law department. He interviewed during a chemo week and still got the job......what a guy! So congrats to B!!!!!!