CAUTION...Contains explicit anatomical references

Please send the kids out of the room. I will be reporting Gay's PET Scan results almost directly from the Doctor's report we received today. I will use terms which might be disturbing to young minds.

We left for South Bend right after Gay's PET Scan and sweated out both the results of that test and the Irish game over the weekend. Fortunately the Irish prevailed but we returned home yesterday with the results of the Scan still unknown. We lit some big candles at the Grotto for Gay and the Irish and the lads came through. Now we had to see how the "wax miracle" worked back here.

We went over to the Oncologist this morning and waited seemingly forever for him to come talk to us. He would be a great card player because he certainly had a "poker face" when he entered the room. The following are the results we were waiting for right out of his computer.

As you know, Gay has incurable but treatable stage four breast cancer. It started many years ago in her left breast and has been a pain in the breast ever since. The Taxol (Chemo-therapy) was started to put the bad cells to sleep and I'm pleased to report that it did it's job. The four "spots" were indeed sleeping and the Taxol knocked them out with some hair loss as collateral damage. We could certainly handle that. We will now use some radiation to put the main spot to night-night. As in previous radiation procedures, we use Gay as a night light and learn to live with it! That spot is indeed asleep like the rest of his "brothers" but this will be a preemptive strike to keep it from ever waking up again. She will then go on hormonal therapy to keep the spots asleep as long as possible. Hopefully new techniques and drugs will be available to permanently get rid of this evil. Friends, the prognosis is good and we wanted to share that with you.

There was a disturbing section in that report. Along with all the medical gobbly-gook was a note that Gay's right breast was "unremarkable"! I don't know about you but I would take umbrage if any part of MY anatomy was considered "unremarkable". Gay was happy about it though so life here goes on.

We have a game against UNC this Saturday and Domer friends and our family will be here to root on the Irish and toast our news today. I can't thank you enough for all of your prayers and support. We truly couldn't have arrived at this point with out you. We are indeed blessed to have you in our lives.