Difficulty following hospital instructions

Honest to goodness this is the sign on the wall of Kerry's recovery room.  He's had a hard time following the last goal -- but got to go home anyway.

The hernia surgery was not quite the walk in the park he had hoped for.  The doctor said the 2 hour laparoscopic surgery went well and now that he has some pain meds on board he seems to be doing pretty well.

So now 6 weeks of no heavy lifting -- he may have to get a light weight banjo.

Did someone say hernia?

One of the annoying side effects of the Interleukin 2 treatments is a lingering cough. Unfortunately, this severe coughing has resulted in Kerry developing a couple of small hernias.  If its not one thing, its another...

So this Friday Kerry will be going to the hernia repair shop for a bit of laparoscopic surgery to patch up the hernias before his next round of Interleukin 2. It will be day surgery and recuperation is expected within a week.

Thanks for your continued good thoughts and prayers.

More Good News

Yesterday Kerry had an MRI of his brain and the doctor said "his brain is perfect" (the doctor was busy so I didn't argue) and there is no sign of the little tumor that was there before the Gamma Knife treatment. The PET scan of the rest of his body showed no new tumors, a reduction in the size of the tumor in his liver and less (hardly any) active cancer cells in his liver.  So this means the Interleukin 2 treatments are working and he gets 2 more treatments starting later in July.  The doctor wants to give him time to recuperate from the last treatments so that hopefully he can tolerate more doses.

Thanks to all of you who have been sending good thoughts our way. We feel very lucky.

Maggie