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Scanxiety…today is July 10th…

Well, my stomach is in knots, my heart is full of worry and excitement, my eyes well with tears of fear and happiness…  We are quickly approaching the ONE YEAR Anniversary of Tim’s life saving surgery with Dr. Armando Sardi. 

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The Truth About Doctors Who Work For Insurance Companies

Hot off the press…  Laurie Johnson Todd, the Insurance Warrior… Truth About Drs Who Work For Insurance Companies_LJT Article

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The Results Are In…

The follow-up CT Scan shows      NO EVIDENCE OF DISEASE!!!      CLEAN!!!      UNREMARKABLE!!! We do not know what the future holds for us – none of us do.  We are not ignorant to or about this disease – we

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This Is It…

The day is finally here – it really is – today is Monday, January 14th and at 2:30pm we will be beginning Tim’s final chemo infusion.  Today is so incredibly bitter-sweet, but definitely mostly sweet.  It is bitter because he

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The Restart of Chemo…

This so sucks…We are sitting in our Pod at the Cancer Center and there are sick people everywhere.  Everywhere you look, sickness… I hate it!  Are we ready for the Chemotherapy road again?  Are the girls ready?  I don’t know

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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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