Posts Tagged ‘houston’

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Back from Paris, Back from Houston

As usual, summer is flying by. It felt like a few hours ago that I was eating tasty food, visiting museums, seeing the sites and hanging out with Jill & Ben in the quaint cafes of Paris. We had a fantastic vacation… something we all needed this year. We were there for 10 days and [...]

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Houston, Round 5 of Chemo

Just got back tonight from another visit to Houston. I flew down on Wednesday night on what has become the same set of flights as almost all of my visits to M.D. Anderson. Upon arrival I was given a gigantic, white police car (i.e. crown victoria) to drive around instead of the tiny economy I [...]

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Three Years Ago

Just a quick post to say Happy Valentine’s Day to those of you who are celebrating. As you probably know, for me this day is more about my anniversary than anything. Three years ago at about this time I was back in my hospital room after finishing up surgery. It seems like forever in some [...]

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Final Update From Friday

Well, the week is over. It’s Saturday morning and I’m just trying to get my stuff packed before heading to the airport. Dad is already at Hobby, taking a different flight home. It suddenly dawned on me that I have staples in my head so it will be another fun experience in airport security with [...]

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Five Week Update

Dad and I flew down to Houston on Sunday. We spent the day watching football waiting for things to get started on Monday. (For those of you that know me I’m not a huge football fan, so clearly I was already feeling the nervousness of the appointments!) Monday morning I started with bloodwork. I then [...]