Finally, some good news!

Ok, so the last couple weeks were really difficult, waiting to get the result of the MRI that I had on Halloween. Fortunately, we finally got some good news :) My doctor said that he and Kaiser's neuro-oncologist in Redwood City agree that it looks like the 2 rounds of chemo that I've done have stopped the growth of the new tumors they found! Mom and Dad went to the appointment with me and we left the doctor's office with tears of joy. Much better than my appointment a couple months ago when Dena and I left in tears of shock and fear. I was given the thumbs up to start another round of chemo which I'm about halfway through and feeling terrific, other than the slight hangover I have from celebrating with some friends last night :) I tend to be a pessimist, so I don't necessarily think that I am out of the woods yet, but it feels really good to breate a sigh of relief for a while.

On Thursday, Nov 6th, my classmates and I displayed our "wedding cakes" for our finals of our cakes class. I'm really happy with how my cake turned out and I'm going to post some pictures of it either later tonight or tomorrow since I'm at Mom & Dad's house now and don't have my computer with the pictures on it.

That's about it for now. I just wanted to finally let you all know about our good news and thank you so much for the well-wishes, happy thoughts and prayers you've all been sending my way. On that note, there's one topic I wanted to address... I know a lot of you know that I'm not particularly religious. Regardless of my feelings about religion, I absolutely respect other people's feelings about the power of prayer and I appreciate and love all of you who have said prayers for me. Who am I to say that it is not those prayers that have stopped the growth of my tumors??? Of course, I can't dismiss the amazing results of modern medicine, but all of your prayers certainly can't hurt :)

With love,
Laurie