As if if all of the news about Pete isn't enough to digest, I wanted to give a quick update on Barb's treatments.
We had a checkup with the doctor as well as herceptin and zometa treatments this week, but did not have blood tests done. The doctor said he simply forgot to put it on the orders. He didn't seem too
concerned. 

As much as Barb and I dread receiving the results every six weeks, it was still encouraging when they were good or not too bad. This check up left us a little up in the air.

We took a long weekend trip to St. Petersburg, FL to visit a friend of Barb's and got back Monday. Barb has been very tired and sore ever since with a little extra pain in her bones. The doctor wasn't too concerned, but we did get the zometa treatment increased from once every six weeks to once every three weeks - the same as the herceptin.
Barb has been taking a little more morphine this week to handle the pain.
Both Barb and I think (hope) that her pain is being caused by too much vacation - too much walking on beaches - too much bending to pick up shells, etc. I don't get to take the morphine so I'm leaning about the healing properties of Captain and Coke.

Our situation seems much less dire than that Pete and Stacia are facing and yet I feel I am not doing nearly as good of a job handling it. I probably shouldn't have piggy-backed this note on Pete's news, but I know many of you still want to hear just what we are doing.