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StephN · 11-07-2007, 01:57 PM

Dear friends -
Thank you so much for your sentiments and support as I grieve my father's earthly passing. No blue skies today, the drizzle is back, and I feel like drizzling too.

Here is a link to the obit that was a work of classic collaborative effort by the whole family. When a person was as active and important to so many, we had to keep focus on the main achievements.

http://www.legacy.com/tricityherald/...sonId=97495299

Just had a call from the paper there and was interviewed for another story separate from this obit. Dad's loss seems to be reverberrating through his community. AND he was NOT a politician.

The most difficult thing will be getting through tomorrow, which is the 61st wedding anniversary for mom and dad. Instead of a lovely evening at the country club we will be having the viewing of his body at the chapel. God have mercy on us all.

11-07-2007, 01:57 PM	#48
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	My heartfelt thanks Dear friends - Thank you so much for your sentiments and support as I grieve my father's earthly passing. No blue skies today, the drizzle is back, and I feel like drizzling too. Here is a link to the obit that was a work of classic collaborative effort by the whole family. When a person was as active and important to so many, we had to keep focus on the main achievements. http://www.legacy.com/tricityherald/...sonId=97495299 Just had a call from the paper there and was interviewed for another story separate from this obit. Dad's loss seems to be reverberrating through his community. AND he was NOT a politician. The most difficult thing will be getting through tomorrow, which is the 61st wedding anniversary for mom and dad. Instead of a lovely evening at the country club we will be having the viewing of his body at the chapel. God have mercy on us all. __________________ "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau Live in the moment. MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~ Found suspicious lump 9/2000 Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR - Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds 36 rads - very little burning 3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED! 2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18 All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?) 2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava 2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec. Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011 STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer 7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED 2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED. Same news for 2016 and all of 2017. Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.