Maggie finished her screening tests Friday morning, and we drove home to Hattiesburg for a long weekend. As I mentioned in the last post, the trial team was unable to schedule the initial biopsy until she passes all screening. Interventional radiology staff called...

Maggie, Phil and I are in Houston. We drove over yesterday in time for a 7:10 pm CT scan. We closed the Mays Clinic down - last patient to leave. Today we were able to relax for the morning and only had a 3:00 pm consult in the GI Center with Maggie's oncologist. We...

We finally have some real news regarding our plans for a clinical trial. Before that, I'll share several test results from MDA. Maggie's bilirubin was 1.7 - we're getting close to normal. They also checked her CEA - the tumor marker level. We haven't had this test...

Hello from Houston. I first want to clear up confusion caused by my sharing of a year old Facebook post. The post showed up as a memory last night and I shared it with an explanation that is was a post from a year ago. Somehow it is "showing up" without my comments...

It's probably past time for an update, but we've been enjoying our home time and haven't stopped to take a serious look behind or ahead. You know that's not entirely the case, but we have been focusing most of our attention on the present. Maggie has been recovering...

She's out - discharged around 2:00 after having her targeted therapy infusion. We're settled in - FOR THE NIGHT - at the Residence Inn. No visit to the ER planned (or unplanned) tonight. We're traveling home tomorrow morning. Maggie plans to spend several days...

The short news was shared this morning on FaceBook. Here's the full story: Maggie was taken to Interventional Radiology early this morning. The actual procedure was quick - less than an hour total although while waiting it seemed longer for two reasons: 1) Our girl is...

What a difference a day makes... Maggie is feeling much better today. The blood cultures (24 hours out) are negative for infection, and she is pain/fever free. Cultures will be checked again at 48 hours, but it looks like the gall bladder was inflamed from the biopsy...

Maggie was admitted to the Oncology floor at UAB this afternoon after a 19 hour wait in the ER. This is what happened and what we know now. After the half-successful procedure yesterday, we returned to the Residence Inn for a night of rest before returning home. After...

Maggie was discharged after having her outpatient procedure, and we are resting at our hotel near the hospital. She is feeling ok and is ready for sleep. The procedure did not go quite as planned. We understood the priority to be internalization of the drain (with...