Thursday, October 4, 2007

A family update

It's been quite a summer and fall for our family. You can check out the summer struggles by looking at those posts. For our fall deal we found out 2 weeks ago that Linda, my wife, has breast cancer. Her surgery last week went well--sort of. The good news out of the surgery is that there is no cancer in the lymph nods. The bad news is that somehow the main point of the surgery --to remove the cancerous lump--was totally missed. Yes, they took out only healthy tissue and missed the lump. How is this possible you ask, no one has a really good explanation--just theories. The bottom line was, "This has never happened before". While we like to break new ground, this is not one of the ways we want to do it. Linda's repeat surgery is scheduled for October 11. We are trying to find ways to assure there is not another "miss".

On a happier note, we are heading to Canada this weekend for a wedding of two great people, Dan and Mira. The added bonus is that Gayle will be flying in from Seattle for the wedding so we get to spend a couple of days with Gayle and Rob. I'll try to take some pics and put them up next week.

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