twenty-three

In a week and a half, this crazy summer will have ended. I will return to start my 5th year at the INN. Stacy will be back in the classroom, finishing preparations for an new group of 4th graders. In many ways, while these months will pass, they will do much to change us. As [...]

Wow. It’s been a little while since I’ve written a blog post, updating everyone on our completely unplanned and crazy summer. So much has happened over the past couple weeks. Sometimes, it feels like the time has flown (just over a month since Stacy’s surgery) and sometimes it feels like it drags on (as we [...]

Hope everyone is getting a chance to enjoy this beautiful weekend and the slightly cooler, but still hot and summer-ish, weather outside. We’re having a pretty good weekend here in Bellingham. I got out for a long run today and we went to the Bellingham Farmer’s Market for the first time together this summer. We [...]

So, it’s been a bit of a quiet week on the ‘ol blog, as Stacy and I have been home, resting up and helping her recuperate and heal from last week’s big surgery. Seems as though it might be an appropriate time to give an update and let you know where things are at right [...]

Friends and family, We have good news this evening. Stacy just got off the phone with her doctor and her results from Monday’s surgery have come back good. The lymph nodes that were taken during the mastectomy returned clean. The mass in her left breast had very clean and clear margins and her right breast, [...]

Hey everyone. We are here for another night at St Joe’s, riding out yesterday’s surgery. It’s been a pretty good day. Stacy has had a bit of energy, eating a little, drinking lots of juice and water, and visiting with friends and family. Tonight, as we wait and hope to sleep, we are thinking a [...]

The day at St. Joseph’s is drawing to a close. We’ve been here for what seems like forever. I wanted to give an update on all that happened today, just keeping everyone in the loop on Stacy and her cancer treatment. We arrived at 11am today for her bilateral mastectomy surgery. We’ve been waiting and [...]

Friends and family, We are facing a very long week ahead as we look forward to Stacy’s surgery next Monday. She’ll be going into St. Joseph’s hospital, here in Bellingham, for a bilateral mastectomy. It will be a pretty big procedure, which we’re nervous about, but she will be in good hands with the surgeons [...]

It’s been almost a week since I had anything to worth posting on here as an update, but yesterday brought a bit of hope and excitement that seems definitely work sharing. Over the past week, Stacy has been in to the doctor for a number of additional tests, including an MRI, CT scan, bone scan, [...]

A quick update for everyone after Stacy and I spent the day in Seattle for a couple of more doctor’s appointments. We visited two doctors at Swedish Medical Center’s Cancer Institute, getting additional opinions on her breast tumor biopsy and ultrasound results. Both doctors concurred with much of what we heard here in Bellingham, which [...]