Our Trip to Houston, scan results, and such

We had a good visit with Dr. Ravi on Tuesday. Dave's long term prognosis looks good. There is only a 30-40% chance of recurrence after you have had chemotherapy and Dave's chances are even lower because they found the tumor so early, it was not in any other tissue, and it came out so easily. I could see the weight lift from Dave when Dr. Ravi told him this. We enjoyed some time in Houston Tuesday afternoon. We rode by the apartment and got ut and walked around. We have good memories from our time living there. He had his scan last night at 7pm then we had dinner with Sarah and Ron afterward. It was a light and happy time. It was the first time I have seen Dave really happy in a long time.  We are so blessed to have friends here to visit with and stay with on our trips to Houston. We got happy news from home last night too. Daddy sent me pictures of Samuel from his karate class. He got his yellow belt last night. He has been waiting on it for almost 2 months since he tested. He was so excited.

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We are meeting with Dr. Pollock, the surgeon, today and getting scan results.  We are waiting on that now.  His appointment was supposed to be at 10:30, but they must be running behind.  Dave is not nervous about this meeting.  He was more stressed about what Dr. Ravi would say more than anything else. I scheduled our flight home for the last one of the day at 8:30 so we are gonna have a long afternoon.  While we are waiting to see the doctor I'll tell you a story.  I forgot to reserve a rental car.  I remembered at about 9pm Monday night. I got online and tried to rent one, but every single car company said they were sold out.  I thought there is no way this could be true and that we would get one when we got to Hobby Airport.  Oh no....they were completely sold out.  So we took a cab to the hospital and then we were able to rent a car near MD Anderson.  So it all worked out and it actually cost us less money than if we had rented it at the airport.

ok..We just saw Dr. Pollock.  We couldn't have asked for better results.  Clear scans!!!!!!  He said recurrence rate is probably 20%. He told Dave to go live.  We are THRILLED!!!!  Rejoice with us.  thanks for praying with us.  Now lets go and LIVE LIFE!!