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Always good to hear someone's good news - congratulations! If your Ohio trip happens to be in the SW corner, you'll be in my neck of the woods. A year or so ago a forum member posted pictures of a multi-state road trip her family took. Lo and behold in the background of one picture was a local landmark. Small world!

Keep those good reports coming!

Kathy

AuntieNae wrote:If you are heading to Milwaukee, send me a PM ..

Will do... I have a friend who lives off Good Hope Road whom I'm trying to talk into going for a sleep test.

OutaSync wrote:I know how relieved you are every good check-up. My housemate is 3 years cancer free after surviving stage 4 throat cancer with brutal radiation and chemotherapy. Three weeks ago at his quarterly throat scan, they found a spot. Ten anxious days later we found out it was a yeast infection. You never saw a man so happy to have a yeast infection in your life!!! I know you work hard on being cancer free by eating a healthy diet. Keepit up, your are doing great!

Bev,

I'll just BET he was! (Pink healing lights in his direction.)

I've been kind of anxious because I learned that an good friend of a friend has had her cancer recur after several years. She's been through two rounds of chemo, too. And another friend... well, if she sees her daughter's next birthday, it'll be a gift. Plus, the whole fiasco with the colonoscopy -- the PCP was extremely unprofessional, insisting that the drop in hematocrit was due to internal bleeding and/or the return of the cancer, and not to the successful treatment of my apnea.

So getting a negative on the labs was an emotional boost. <g> I've been eating healthy for over seven years! Ain't gonna stop now! (Going to a wedding reception Saturday, and taking my own eats... homemade honey mustard dressing, homemade avocado dip, homemade remoulade sauce, spinach and almond balls, chicken nuggets, shrimp quiches, mini-muffaleta roll-ups. I may eat better than the rest of the guests!)

A good friend of mine, who started CPAP a month before me lives near Good Hope Rd.

mindy wrote:Happy to hear about your good checkup and I hope you have much fun thinking about and planning your trip!! I took some trips I had been looking forward to after a bad time with my heart and it was worth every beautiful minute. If I never get to take another one, I will still be quite happy. I can always think back and remember the wonderful times I had

Mindy,

Thanks... and yes, heart stuff can be worrisome. (My mom has congestive heart failure, probably due to untreated apnea, but I cannot get her to consider being tested.)

I love mountains, and would consider moving back to them if I didn't hate the idea of moving away from all our great Gulf seafood!

So the best I can do is plan trips and hope to come up with the $$ for them. Too bad I can't win the lottery! (Except you have to buy a ticket in order to win...)

kteague wrote:Keep those good reports coming!

Kathy,

If I have any say in it... they will! We're likely to come up I59 to I65 to I71? to I75 to Dayton, which is where my sister currently lives -- last chance to visit before she goes and moves to Ogden, Utah this summer.

Don't know if that's anywhere near you, but if it is, we and the Dachshund Duo will wave as we go by!

Posting an update:

I've mentioned several times having had surgery for endometrial cancer on 7 April 2008. I have to have labs every four months until the oncologist tells me it can be every six months.

Got my results for the May labs -- NEGATIVE! So this is a full year since the surgery, and all three labs have been NEGATIVE.

Only four years now until I can be declared cancer-free... and take the dream vacation Harry and I have been thinking of through the Canadian Rockies... on the Rocky Mountaineer.

Congrats!

The Canadian Rocky Mountains are awesome... I lived out that way for a while. Drove through those mountains several times on my way back east. The drive down from Jasper to Golden on the highway is absolutely fantastic. We spent a few nights at a lodge near Jasper that was located beside one of the rivers... one of the more peaceful and relaxing places I've been to in my life.

My girlfriend was less than enthusiastic about taking the Jasper Tramway to the restaurant at the top of the mountain... she was hanging onto me for dear life all the way up. Then when the tramway car stopped at the top it did a slight backwards slide down the cable... she was holding onto me with a bear like grip... didn't think she was that strong!

If you want to make a super adventure trip out of it... while you are out there take an Alaskan cruise that departs from Canada Place in Vancouver all summer long.

Fantastic place to live... I loved it out there.

K., Congratulations!

Paul56 wrote:Congrats! <snip> If you want to make a super adventure trip out of it... while you are out there take an Alaskan cruise that departs from Canada Place in Vancouver all summer long. Fantastic place to live... I loved it out there.

Thanks! Each negative test is another Good Thing.

I spent two weeks in the Canadian Rockies in February 2004 and again in June 2004 and enjoyed the heck out of it. A friend who went wish us had a panic fit over the Suphur Mountain gondala, and we couldn't get her anywhere near the Jasper one.

An Alaskan cruise would be a nice addition to our return visit, fer shure.

Only four years....!

rooster wrote:K., Congratulations!

Thanks, Rooster!

Greetinga Kira,

Good News! Kira, I think you will be just fine in 4 more years. You have a unique zest for life, varied interests, physically active. Plus you probably eat healthier than 90% of the rest of us.

Besides you will be very busy for the next four years . . . it will take you that long to come-up with a thread funnier than the monkeys.

Congratulations!!

Jan

Congratulations, Kira!

I'm sure treatment must have been a bear, but now you are reaping the rewards I hope. I loved my Alaskan cruise and hope you have a chance to do that very soon .... make hay while the sun shines

Mindy

SaltLakeJan wrote:Good News! Kira, I think you will be just fine in a 4 more years. You have a unique zest for life, varied interests, physically active. Plus you probably eat healthier than 90% of the rest of us.

Heh. Both my surgeons said they couldn't stick with my diet. Or my exercise program! I'm keeping my fingers crossed on the next four years, though.

SaltLakeJan wrote:Besides you will be very busy for the next four years . . . it will take you that long to come-up with a thread funnier than the monkeys. Congratulations!!

Y'know what? That darn thread was the result of a slip of the tongue -- "primate messages" instead of "private messages." I probably couldn't do anything that silly again, even trying! (It was fun, though....)

And, hey... y'know what "they" say: Laughter is the best medicine!

mindy wrote:Congratulations, Kira! I'm sure treatment must have been a bear, but now you are reaping the rewards I hope. I loved my Alaskan cruise and hope you have a chance to do that very soon .... make hay while the sun shines

Mindy,

Treatment was no fun... and any cancer survivor can probably attest that the Big C leaves its mark on you even when you battle it to a standstill. Things are WAY better now than they were a year ago.

I look forward to my Rocky Mountaineer vacation, and if I can save enough, we will add the Alaskan cruise to it.