Oh no! I really missed putting up the Sunday update. Ooops!

Hey!

Here's a quick update on the cowpoke.

His next 90-day scan/checkup is on October 21st.

We will really (theoretically) have solid news by Oct. 22nd, telling us how he did on his tests.

But I'm kinda worried because it's only a CT scan and blood test. The last time he got a CT scan at Duke, just a week before surgery, TWO RADIOLOGISTS AT DUKE read the scan and the report came back that he was 100% cancer-free. (Then why did they do the surgery--that's another question).

But how WRONG can a scan be? He had three giant tumors in his bladder and a major honker in his prostate, plus a bunch of little lymph tumors, and skin cancer, and the CT scan missed 100 percent of them! Not only a CT scan, but a CT scan with DYE!

So how are we supposed to feel anything good if he gets a clean report after the 21st?

RIDICULOUS!

Plus, he has had a scary symptom this week, involving blood, but I won't go into details or he'll scold me when he reads this. hahaha Maybe he'll forget to read his blog! Hmmmm. Tempted to tell you....but, it was a brand new development--we've seen blood before, but this was completely new in its features--and shocked me so thoroughly that I had to lie down for quite a while and try to calm down. My thoughts go from zero to crazy so fast. Bill, on the other hand, was calm about it. As always.

At least the nature views in our mountains (see that quick subject change?) are glamorous outside today. The colors all peaked on the same day (today) which is kind of rare, and everything is blindingly, neonly BRIGHT yellow and red, and all the trunks look black, with a clear blue sky.

There. I left it on a positive note!

More this coming Sunday. We've HAD guests and BEEN guests almost non-stop for the last 14 days, hence my tardy post. And my laziness in trying to think of a better word than "tardy" right there. :)

Love and lassos,
Cowgirl and Wild Willy