Happy Holidays! MRI results

Happy Holidays everyone. I saw a whole team of doctors last week, including Dr. Neal and Dr. Chang, my neurosurgeon.  Good news, my brain MRI and left foot xray all came out great. Everything is stable. No new lesions and no new findings. Hurray.

I'm feeling great. Thank goodness for Xalkori.  I'm feeling good as ever. My breathing is as clear as can be. Even Dr. Neal says he's never heard my lungs so clear. I'm so happy for this wonderful drug.

It's been awhile since my last post, so I'll catch up everyone on the happenings in the Pham family since my Thanksgiving.  Turkey day, Thanksgiving was great. I cooked the full course dinner and the turkey turned out great! Originally, I had thought that turkey dinner I had ordered was fully cooked, but nope, I didn't read the details and it came frozen and uncooked. But, no biggie, it all worked out as I thawed it 2 days ahead and had it all marinated for 2 days in the frig. We had a few family guests (nease, sister and their significant others) come over last minute to help us celebrate and enjoy great food. My kids, have yet to acquire the taste of Turkey. They always prefer their own kid type of food.

We are enjoying the holidays and are so looking forward for having the holidays off with them. We have lots of day trips in mind. Luckily, my hubby will have the time off too so that we can all enjoy time as a family. We're even planning to head to Tahoe to play in the snow. It's going to be a magical, wonderful winter this year.

Also, I've been re-starting my acupuncture/accu-pressure (massage) complimentary therapy again. I might as well give it another try to help alleviate stress and keep my body, back and mind in balance. Ever since I started getting a massage done from a Groupon I got, I felt it helped me relax and distress me. So, I figure, I might as well take time to focus on me and healing on Wednesdays.

All is well with the kids. Emma and Ellen just finished their preschool for the year and now they are on winter break. Ethan's doing well in school now. I've enrolled them back into the Kumon program and they love it. Last week, they also met Santa and did arts and crafts at their school. They are loving the holidays and Christmas. Our house is all nicely lit up with lights. We're baking cookies, watching holiday movies and having lots of fun. Lots of Love.