Janet's progress on Wednesday

Dear friends,

There was some good news today.

Two dear professonal and dancer friends of Janet (Professor Carol Handwerker of Purdue University and Joan Chouili) and I met a Kaiser oncologist at a Kaiser onology center to review Janet's condition. Ideally Janet herself would have made the appointment, but she is still in the hospital getting tender loving care. After discussing the case, the Kasier oncologist decided to recommend a referral to Johns Hopkins for a possible clinical trial. This is very good news and we will at least get a second opinion about her case and perhaps even access to clinical trials at Hopkins. This is exactly what Janet was hoping for.

In the meantime, we still have several very good leads and contacts to the National Institute of Health and Georgetown University -Lombardi cancer center, should we need to fall back on other help.

Special thanks to all of you who have helped us get to this point. In time, Janet and I will try to respond to all of you. By the way, I screened 140 email messages today on Janet's two email accounts.

And to Joan and Carol: God bless you. Janet could not have gotten the medical care breakthrough today without your help.

Now we hope Janet's lung stabilizes. Please keep the thoughts and prayers coming.

Sorry: No general visitations and no phone calls please.

Postscript: (I wish this blog would let me cut and paste. It doesn't.)

I cotinue to print out each preceeding day's blog entries and bring them in to show Janet.

She continues to be in good spirits, but she is still draining from the right lung. Today we almost thought we detected a noticeable downward trend in this, but then there was a blip back up. Physicians have assured her to be patient and not panic about this.

So Janet continues to recuperate and save her strength. She is eating and breathing well and reading and listening to dance rythyms on the MP3 player.
george