Memorial Day Summary

(As predicted in the previous post, we did have enjoyable visits to the Air & Space Museum, and to Mount Vernon [see 1st picture] before returning to Seattle).

It's now been almost 6 months since Meg's surgery (December 14th) and her health continues to improve.  She now has lots of energy, though she tends to doze off in the evening.  The odd set of symptoms that affected her a while ago (extreme fatigue, always cold, no appetite, food tasting overly sweet or salty) have gone away as mysteriously as they appeared, and we of course hope that they will never return.

We had a most enjoyable East Coast trip, have returned to work in Seattle and are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Elspeth (and her cat) tomorrow. She'll be here for two months while she does fish research in a lab at the Hutch (for her Master's thesis) as well as working at the Capitol Hill Trader Joe's (look for the young woman with the salmon tattoo on her arm).

Meg announced that she now feels perfectly normal, and has done so for the last week or so. She proved it by spending a couple of hours pruning trees in our backyard, when it finally cleared up this afternoon. She's also happy to note that she has NO medical appointments this week.

Coming soon to this blog:

• report on our visit to the Neuro-Oncology doctors  at the National Institute of Health (as promised before!)
• details of my visit to the Brain Cancer Research lab at Swedish Hospital, where Meg was treated - they're doing all the right molecular things to help plan rational treatments for brain tumors.
• details of the Seattle Brain Cancer fundraiser walk, at the end of June, which raises money for the lab at Swedish Hospital.