Author Archives: Matt

Chemotherapy

The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of appointments, tests, work, celebrations, and stress. It’s impossible to sum it all up in a reasonable amount of time, so I’ll just keep it short. No tumors were detectable in the CT scan. The tumor marker in my blood, while rising, is still at a relatively [...]

…and some not-so-positive news

My doctor called this morning with the results from my most recent blood tests: There is still some cancer in my body. Based on what I’ve read, I expected this to happen. Still, the news left me almost speechless. I was hoping to be able to celebrate victory over cancer and my birthday at the [...]

Cancer update: A little positive news

I got off the phone with my doctor a few minutes ago. The tissue he removed did contain cancer. The good news is that there were no masses detected in my chest x-ray. The cough that’s taking forever to go away does seem to be due to the bronchitis I had a couple months ago. [...]

Cancer

I never expected that this would be the topic I write about when I start blogging again. But people are starting to ask, so I should talk about it. At about 1 PM today, I’m going to have surgery on what is very likely testicular cancer. There is no reason to believe yet that it [...]

Thank you, Jeff and Nicole

Thank you for the delicious beer.

First trip to the beach

This is August’s first time on the beach (while awake).

70000

Still running.

Rubber duckies

August is interacting with his environment more each day. Yesterday, he sat up in his bath to play with the rubber duckies.

Sunset at Cannon Beach

It was a beautiful sunset. I’m bummed that I didn’t have the DSLR with me.

Long afternoon walk

August hasn’t been sleeping well the last few days. It took a very long walk to get him to fall asleep this afternoon.