We are on a roll!

Not even a cold and rainy day in Chicago could keep us down today as we found out that Jodi has no cancer in her bones! Apparently there are two types of bone scans, one that is extremely painful and one that borders on relaxing. Jodi was fortunate enough to have the latter. We had to be at the hospital bright and early yesterday morning so that Jodi could get injected with a radioactive dye. After sitting in the waiting room for 10 minutes, Jodi reappeared and said we needed to be back in two hours, which was the estimated period of time it would take for the dye to spread throughout Jodi's bones. Upon our return from breakfast, she went back and apparently fell sound asleep on the hospital bed as they took pictures of her to determine whether the dye was flowing freely through her bones...this procedure was definitely a step up from her last biopsy on the comfort scale. More importantly, the test results indicated that Jodi has.....degenerative arthritis. What a relief! I don't know much about degenerative arthritis, but I do know it is a much better diagnosis than bone cancer. Isn't it funny how one can become desensitized to the immaterial (to put it in audit terms) things...three weeks ago the degenerative arthritis thing might have tripped us up, but now it doesn't matter.

"Optimism is the foundation of courage"