Latest MRI...40...and the future.

Happy New Year everyone!

Been a crazy month already...GOOD, but crazy!

1. My latest MRI was on the 6th of this month. No change. Two words that I have come to love. Had a chance to talk with Dr. Robbins about the future. Feb 3rd, I go to Madison to pick up my LAST round of Temodar (Chemo)!! 12 months of treatment complete! After that round, I will only have to go up to Madison every 2 months for MRIs...no change continues to be what we want to see!

Doc wanted to assure me not to get worried about regrowth when I stop treatment. He says I am doing remarkably and I have received Temodar twice as long as it was originally prescribed. So I am going to take Dem Smart Docs advise and focus on the positive....I will be officially OUT OF TREATMENT and A CANCER SURVIVOR. I can deal with that!

2. I turned 40 last week! I can not tell you how good it felt to turn 40! I feel younger and better than I have for years! I am looking forward to turning 70!!!

To celebrate the occasion, my wife created a fabulous day for me! She started the day by taking me for a suprise Massage at a local spa, followed by a nice lunch. To top the day off, she set up dinner with Jeff and Mendy. She told me about the dinner, but omitted that she had set up a limo to come and pick us up and take us into Wildfire in Schaumburg, one of my favorite restaurants!! We had a great night, a great meal, great company, and a styling ride to and from!

Just to prove to me that my body was 40 and I was officially an OLD Man, I fell asleep on the drive home!! :) Would have slept all the way, but my Snoring was bothering our companions. :) I would use my standard...."it sucks to get old", but IT REALLY DOESN'T!!!

3. On the business front, things are getting crazy as well! Our business is helping companies do more with less, which tends to fit well in this economy. To show for it, Jeff and I are "On the Road Again" doing training for a big client of ours is keeping us gone all week during the last two weeks of January and most of February and March! Business is staying steady, but, I can honestly say that I am excited about the change that has come to our Country. I will leave politics out of this blog, but our economy can use all the help it can get right now.

Talk about life getting back to normal...I am in better shape physically, and in a better place mentally than I have been in a really long time! When I lose sleep now a days, it is over business issues, and not "the Cancer Switch", and most of you know by now that me losing sleep over business issues is who I am and my minds way of telling me that life is truly back to normal.

To that end, I will keep this blog open and will post when the wave strikes me, but it will only be occassionally. The purpose of this blog was to chronical the journey that was my Brain Tumor surgery and treatment process. Now that I am entering the "Post Treatment" phase, I have chosen to focus on living every minute. I have found a new outlet in Facebook, and anyone that wants to stay in touch is free to look me up!

Thank you to everyone who has followed this blog and me during the past year. I truly believe that it is in your thoughts and prayers that I found much of the strength that helped me make it through the last year. Thank you.

Just to stay true to this blog and darling Miss Ava...

PEACE OUT!!