December 2009
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Ready for Book #2
Modeling Clothes is Fun! I think the news is finally setting in. My clue: she tells everyone that her cancer is gone. Friends. Family. Complete strangers. Sometimes I think she says it just to remind herself. The list of things she wants to do next is endless. She wants to write a book. She wants to take up tennis again. She wants to travel to Texas. She wants to eat more sushi. The list goes on....
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All I Wanted for Christmas...
Belly Laugh | While not her most flattering photo, her parents love it because she’s laughing. May she laugh for many years ahead! It was like old times. When I awoke this morning, I challenged myself to make a great stack of pancakes. Pancakes have been a Saturday tradition in our house, but I stopped making them months ago because the electric stove in our new place is temperamental and...
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Understatement
The news is actually better than I imagined. Jordan’s doctors are now very confident that what we see in the MRI scans is actually scar tissue. Based on the few patients similar to Jordan who have reached this stage and had biopsies, the tissue biopsied has been benign. Because there is no evidence of new growth, the doctors believe she really has kicked the disease’s butt. They are so...
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More Progress
Jordan did AMAZING today. She was so mature at handling everything, which is unbelievable considering the tension we all felt about this MRI. She let them access her port without any pushback. In fact, Jeanette said that when they came in to do the access, Jordan turned to her and said, “do I really have to do this now?” Jeanette said yes and Jordan was 100% cooperative. When it came...
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Exams
Tomorrow is a big day. Jordan will have her first MRI since stopping chemo in September. Though she tries to be nonchalant about it, we can tell she’s nervous. We are, too. So much has been going well, we have our fingers crossed the scans will give us more to celebrate.