celebrating 3 years cancer free...

i an effort to make the most of life moving forward, i am planning to celebrate my 3 year anniversary of being cancer free. i was originally diagnosed on Feb 15th 2005, so i am planning to celebrate the fact that i am still here with family and friends during the month of Feb. below is the intive i sent out to friends for the first celebration. zebbi, me, cj, damon, and kennedy are going to edo garden in monona, wi for a special family celebration.
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As most of you know I am coming up on the anniversary of my cancer diagnosis on Feb 15th, 2005. I would like to celebrate the fact that I am still alive and kicking, BUT the 15th is a Friday (I teach that night) AND there are not really an good bands playing that night anyway. Soooooo, I am planning to go to see IX Lives at the Club Tavern on Saturday the 9th to celebrate instead.

What -- Celebrate Surviving Cancer (so far...lol)
Where -- The Club Tavern (1915 Branch St, Middleton, WI)
When -- Saturday, February 9, 2008

More info -- http://www.clubtavern.com/
http://www.ix-lives.com/ -- Led Zeppelin, Styx, Queen, Pink Floyd, Boston, Yes, Journey, Kansas, Supertramp, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aerosmith, Rush, REO Speedwagon, Steely Dan, Genesis, Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, Foreigner, and the other great band from the 70s and 80s

Who -- you, your significant other, your other friends, anyone else you can think of....the more the merrier.

ct scan and another oncology follow up...plus a graduation of sorts.

on 12/4 -- i had a ct scan. this one went pretty much the same as all others. however, my system is no liking the contrast they use and i am having to spend some "quiet time" in the restroom after my appointment. well nothing like a good colon cleansing...just another bonus of having been through cancer treatment.....oh boy!

on 12/12 -- i had my oncology follow up. we went over the ct results. everything looks good. labs came back fine. general checkup was good. these visits have turned into a standard routine of getting poked, prodded, and spiked (for the blood draw), and then going over the results. don't get me wrong, i am glad that the results are always the same....everything is good...nothing to worry about...BUT it does become somewhat tedious going every 3 months and having the same appointment over and over.

now for a bit of really good news (and something to help these appointments not be soooo tedious), i have graduated (in a sense) to the next phase of my follow up care. starting with this appointment, i will now go back every 6 months instead of every 3 months. HOORAY!!!! finally my appointments are starting to be pushed out farther and farther.........then starting in may 2008, as long as my scan comes back clean, my scans will be pushed out to 1 per year.