I'm still here!!

[Esther]

Thanks for thinking about me guys! It's been a busy time for me and I'm emerging from some new challenges.

I started an oral chemo como in early Dec. because my onc thought that I might be having some liver progression. After just one cycle, I started having pain in a bone mets spot on my left hip, and started radiation on it the week before Christmas, yuck! I had radiation the week of Christmas as well, but stopped treatments after 6 sessions, because it made me feel too sick and nauseated.

The pain is gone now, so we'll see from here.

A follow-up MRI on Jan 9 showed everything stable with the lesion in my cerebellum, so we will continue to just monitor it's progress.

We're going to Mammoth this week-end to try out my new skis, I got some shorter, easier to manuever skis, that will also slow me down a bit, for those days when I feel a need to be more cautious.

We leave for Steamboat, CO on the 27th of Jan, for a 10 day ski trip. Looking forward to it, as the snow reports have been fabulous! I will celebrate my 3 rd anniversary of living with mets, again at the top of a mountain. For me it's a triumph, since in Jan 2004, I was told that I probably wouldn't make it ti Christmas that year due to the severity of my liver mets.

So far I've celebrated: 1st anniversary, Aspen CO, 2nd Telluride, CO, 3rd Steamboat CO, 2008 will be Whistler in Canada, so you can see I'm planning to be doing well for a long time to come!

So I continue to deal with my mets issues one by one, and try to enjoy life as much as I can.

I'm hoping that 2007 is the beginning of a great year for all of us.