We interrupt this regularly scheduled blogging to bring you this important announcement

    I'm hitting the pause button on the rest of our back story for the moment, since we received an important call this morning from Dr. God. 

    P.'s in, as in, accepted for proton therapy.  We're celebrating!

    We're especially happy because Dr. God tells us that (1) the chondrosarcoma is "eminently treatable" and doesn't need to be resectioned first.  Whew, twice over.

    So we're off to the Really Famous Hospital for an all-day consultation and testing appointment on Monday, January 4th, with treatment scheduled to begin on Monday, January 11.

    The plan is for seven weeks of treatments, for a total of 35 sessions.  Dr. God puts the end date at March 2.

    It feels great to have an actual, real live plan.

    Oh, BTW: He started out the phone conversation by complementing us on how well written my "encyclopedia of P." was.  He said that this document made it easy for him to understand the nature of P.'s case and get back to us quickly.  I'm just like a graduate student whose adviser likes my dissertation chapter--I'm just all proud inside.  And relieved.