Getting back to normal

I see it's been a month since I posted, and I apologize for not being more communicative. But you know what they say: no news is good news.

Steve is doing GREAT. He's been exercising and building up muscle (looks great!). That's helped him add weight and he's probably put on about 20 pounds. He's around 144-145 right now. If he can get up to 150, that would be great. His eating again and he has energy and a much improved attitude.

Life is returning to normal and cancer is less a part of our everyday existence. A sign of that occurred this week when we both FORGOT that he had an appointment for a blood test and port maintenance at the Cancer Center. We had dinner a couple of weeks ago with our friends Nancy and Chuck. Chuck had bladder cancer surgery just about two weeks before steve's surgery. We had an enjoyable evening with a lot of great conversation and NOT ONCE did we talk about cancer.

Those are good signs.

Last night we went to the symphony (Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and American in Paris). Steve got all duded up (as you can see) and was clearly the best looking dude in the place. The week before we saw Smokey Robinson. An eclectic mix of entertainment lately. But I think I'm succeeding in expanding steve's horizons to include classical music.

So all is well. PET scan at the end of april will hopefully tell us there's no cancer anywhere else and then they will remove his port. I think for Steve that will be the sign that this is behind him.

For all of our friends, thank you for the support, caring, concern and help over the past year. I hope we will find a way to honor that and give it back to someone else who needs it - hopefully none of you guys!

Attaching a short video of Mr. Smooth putting his dancing moves on in the kitchen last night. As terri hovey will tell you, he LOVES singing and dancing in the kitchen!