Good afternoon,

I am looking out my window on a winter wonderland and appreciating the scene. I am pleased that Jennifer got me out here to a to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Cancer Center. These folk seem to be light years ahead of Kaiser (my California HMO).

I have recently had another brain radiation treatment and in 3 weeks they will do another brain MRI to see how they did. In the meanwhile I have had 2 sessions of Chemotherapy (spaced 3 weeks apart) to treat the cancer in my torso. After a 3rd Chemo session they will do a body scan to check the progress and repeat as necessary.

This seems to me to be a good plan and I am generally experiencing no adverse reaction to all these procedures. They think that this will put my cancer into remission. Then they will do scans (MRI, CAT, etc) every 3 months and commence treatment if something is found. I'll try to keep everyone posted.

Shirley