SORRY FOR THE DELAY!-

Yes, I know I've been bad.  Blogging sounds like a great idea to keep everyone informed, and then you try and try to come up with some original thought and...nada!  Could it be that chemo destroys creativity and cleverness cells while it's trying for the cancer? Perhaps.  Here's what's new.  Just completed Round 5 and the poisons seem to be doing their thing. When a woman has ovarian cancer she starts off with a CA125 score. It's a blood test that is used as a "tumor indicator". Before surgery mine was 390. It has been steadily dropping with the chemo until it is now at 18.  So that's good news and indicates that I can probably
take a six to twelve month break from the treatment after the next session.  The CAT scan in August will be more definitive, however.   We've had a good summer.  My sister, Sharon,  and her husband,  John, were here from California and we had a wonderful time. My new adorable grand niece, Stella, and Mom and Dad (Robin and Ken) were here for a couple of days on their way to a dude ranch. Fun to have a munchkin running around the house again.  Bobbie (little sister) and Doug have been camping with us about every other weekend and we've had some beautiful hikes and lots of good laughs.  The kids have been around a lot to keep me company, so there have been few boring moments.  Clar is getting married in 2 weeks.  More family, more parties, more excitement!  So that's the nutshell version of the Recent Life of Karen.  My next blog will be sometime in August, after the test results.  I'm REALLY optimistic!  Love you all.....Karen