Surgery is complete and I got a chance to speak to Dr. Narayanan. Everyone has told me since day 1 of this journey that he is the best, and he lived up to the hype. He removed the remaining tumor and surrounding tissue, successfully reattached the two ends, and ran some quick post-op tests to…

It sounds like all pre-op preparation went off without any problems and the actual surgical procedure started at 7:54 am with an expectation of taking 3-4 hours. I likely won’t have anything new to share until it’s done, but if anything changes I will share. Chris

And she’s off to the operating room. No complications in pre-op. Side note – some of you have left comments on various blog posts over the course of the year. I found out this morning we have to approve those comments before they are published. They are all approved now. Sorry 😬 Chris

Liz got mad at me last night because I haven’t posted to the blog in months. Truth be told I started a bunch of them but could never finish – each one just turned into a bunch of whining about how hard it is being married to somebody fighting cancer, and nobody wants to hear…

Thanksgiving. Looking back, I don’t have many specific memories from this holiday. We did not have immediate family who would come over. We sometimes would have people over from church but I don’t recall that happening frequently or consistently over the years. I remember watching the Macy’s Day Parade while my Mom made a lattice…

My favorite Halloween costume was my younger sister’s when she was about 2. She wore white tights and a white hoodie. Then, my mom safety-pinned various colored balloons to her and viola, she was a jar of jelly beans. Not sure how my mom thought of it but even as a kid, I thought it…

At the risk of sounding like a bimbo, I am terrible with directions. Right after college, I got a part-time job driving cars. I would bring customers a rental car and pick up their car to bring to the dealership for service. Not hard. Except if (and when) I got lost. I was still learning…

Good news and bad news today. Good news is that Liz had her Enoscopy this morning and the tumor has shrunken significantly. The bad news is that it’s not completely gone – there are still active cancer cells in her body. This makes the “observation” (non-surgical) treatment option no longer viable. We have a follow…

Waiting. We are still waiting for what’s next. I did have a follow-up with my oncologist but the MRI was “indeterminate” so we really need the scope and biopsy to know what will be next. In the meantime, it has been hard to quiet my anxiety of the unknown. If there is surgery, the ostomy…

As a kid, our lawn was amazing. It was a velvety green. We had a big back yard that hosted countless of kids and kid activities. We had a square trampoline that would garner most of the neighborhood. I remember my oldest sister’s friends hitting the ground at the bottom of the trampoline or flying…