Last weekend presented a lot of challenges.  Just when things were most difficult, Kath opened the front door to go outside and found a bag of goodies from Great Harvest which is one of our favorite places.  As we read the note, we discovered that the family that started Great Harvest had left it along with their good wishes and prayers.   It added a bright spot to our difficult weekend.
     Wednesday I had my CT scan done.  During the scan, the electricity went off in the hospital.  I was so unaware that I thought that it was part of the procedure.  After the scan, we went down to the Center for Health and Healing (where Tiffany, Michael, and Amber met us) for my appointment with the doctor helping me deal with the pain.  We then met with my chemo doctor who told us the results of the CT scan.  The positive is that the tumor has not grown at all and it is the same as it was a month ago.  Also, the cancer is not in any of my organs.   However, they found some shadowing on my hip bone which is a cause for concern.  Because of this, I had a bone scan done Thursday morning at OHSU.  Kath and brother Brad were allowed to watch this procedure because it did not involve x-rays or any radiation.  They did a full body scan which lasted eighteen minutes, then did a three minute scan of one side of my skull, and then another three minutes on the other side.  Really enjoyed all the doctors, technicians, etc in the nuclear medicine department.  Now I wait until late next Wednesday to see if anything shows up.  All my doctors will conference about the results before I see them.   Basically, if they find anything, they will use radiation or chemo to treat it.