Good vibes, good luck or a combination of the two, and we're not home free yet [View all]

[DFW]

First of all, thanks for all the good wishes for my wife on my thread last week.

This morning, we just got the word: her biopsies were all negative: no further cancer detected. We have a big conference with Herr Professor Doktor (Germans are obsessed with their titles) tomorrow, but for now, she is cancer-free. We are hoping mightily that he recommends no chemotherapy. She went through that last time, and said it was two months of pure torture.

She is still in the hospital. The operation was a long 5 hour affair, and you don't just get up from one of those and go grocery shopping. But she is now up, can walk around on her own, but has to learn how to walk without a stoop. They took out quite a bit of her, and she compensates by walking stooped over. We were warned about this before the operation, and knew what to expect. It won't be easy, but we can now face just about anything (except more cancer), knowing that the danger, at least for now, is past.

Good vibes, good luck, maybe just the fact that she is strong and her genes dictated she was going to get past this, but whatever the how and why, we'll take it.