Thursday update

Dear friends,

This is george quinn, sr. again about how Janet is doing on Thursday.
She is much better, but still not entirely out of the woods.
She is able to speak and breath more freely, but the side chest lung tube is still picking up some fluid. This must gradually dry out. She is eating and urinating well (a good sign) and they are monitoring her blood and fluids. So we shall let her rest a day or two more. Please, no general visitations for now.

Her spirits are good, but like I said yesterday, she is anxious to get that keyboard and get on line to start researching therapies and chemo options. That is her frame of mind. She is not wallowing in self pity, but ready to tackle this challenge head on. Those of you her know her well will understand. I have learned that when she gets something like this in mind, to step aside and not get run over!

So in addition to her slow but steady recovery, the good news is that we have two appointments with oncologists next week. One is a Kaiser oncologist (at last we will meet one!) and the other is a specialist at Johns Hopkins University-Kimmel Cancer center for a second opinion. Thanks to several of you who worked hard to help us land the second connection. They may be able to apply innovative therapies that the health maintenance organization cannot or will not use. This option gives Janet great hope, a very precious commodity.

george