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Home Is Where The Heart Is…

We are HOME!!!  We arrived home at about 4pm this afternoon…we jumped in the car and left at about 8:45am.  I don’t think I’ve every driven with such determination before in my life.  I never thought that I would ever

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We Outta There!!!

So, we arrived at the hotel, Home2Suites, a little after 3pm.  It was so great to get in to the room and get everything settled/unpacked.  Tim got comfortable relatively soon after arriving and took a short nap.  We then took

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Post Operative Day 1…

We met with Dr. Sardi and Team this morning to go through more details of Tim’s surgery.  Tim is ready to share this with you now.  In the Doctor’s words… there was a lot of tumor, Tim was nearing an

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Surgery Day…

Tim’s surgery lasted about 10+ hours and he had a complete Cytoreduction – Dr. Sardi was able to remove all of the visible tumor.. and he then moved forward with the HIPEC.  He said that Tim did well.

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1 More Day…

Well here we are, sitting in our hospital room.  Last night we got next to no sleep.  Tim said it was because the bed and pillow were terrible… I don’t think that was it.  I was comfortable but struggled to

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A Decision Has Been Made…

We will be having Cytoreductive Surgery and HIPEC in Baltimore, MD with the wonderful Dr. Armando Sardi.  We are so thrilled with this decision and are now ready to get there and get it done!!!!!  A LOT of work and

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Advocating For Yourself…

After countless times of being told Tim was not a surgical candidate “because of the way his cancer spread” we have succeeded in finding a Specialist that will do Surgery on Tim and has told us, this is the ONLY

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Our Fight Begins…

The day is finally here – we will start the fight against this beast that has taken over our lives, our minds, o9ur entire being.  We are on our way right now, in this nasty snow, to Wilmot Cancer Center. 

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One Week IN… and Reality is Setting IN…

I’ve had some great cuddle time with my guy…lots of silent time just looking at each other… lots of tears… and lots of laughs, which knowing us must be quite a shocker to you all… I just put a movie

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