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El Prieto redux
I just finished uploading some awesome new photos taken by our friend Gerry on Saturday at this year’s El Prieto Handicap race. He caught some great action shots of people running, and he was positioned at a point early enough in the race (at the bottom of the El Prieto Trail) that people still look…
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Celebrating
This weekend marked the 16th annual El Prieto Handicap – Chuck’s annual race. It’s a very neat event, held in the San Gabriel Mountains in an area called Oak Grove Park. Two miles of the race is on a single track trail called El Prieto (hence the race name), and every year the direction alternates:…
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Follow up
I started this post on April 21 with the words, “I am sitting in a waiting room at the City of Hope…” I was doing that yesterday as well. Over the past six months, I realize, I’ve done a LOT of waiting in waiting rooms at City of Hope. But yesterday’s doctor visit officially put…
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Adding to a great day
At the end of the day today, as the last of the chemo dripped into Chuck’s veins, all of the nurses in the infusion unit came into his room, sang Zippity-Doo-Dah and gave him a medal! We were doing pretty well keeping our emotions in check until they put that medal around his neck, then…
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And just like that, it’s a new beginning
After four months of crappy news and endless worry, today was great. Chuck got the official ALL CLEAR. He is cancer-free. We have it in writing. There’s a lot of follow-up: he comes in for a PET scan in a month, and for the next year every three months Dr. Nade wants him to come…
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Meet Mr. Fatty Necrosis
I was so over the moon last night that I didn’t provide much detail regarding our little friend Mr. Fatty Necrosis, he who scared the living crap out of us after Chuck’s last PET scan. While he sounds vaguely like a silent film villain, or possibly a grotesque vaudevillian (or as a friend has suggested,…
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