First I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas, wonderful holiday season wishing everyone a safe, happy and prosperous New Year. I very much enjoyed Christmas and seeing family. We spent Christmas in SF with our two daughters, their respective husbands and two grandchildren. Seeing Christmas thru the little ones eyes is a treat. I was blessed the day after Christmas with a visit from my oldest, John, his wife Sarah and two boys. I had not seen him in two years since his promotion to Lt. Colonel and it was great to see him and family. Most grateful.
The whole motley crew
I spent the last three days of 2025 taking care of bloodwork, driving to San Francisco to see my oncologist, Dr Kim, receiving my immunotherapy infusion and concluded with my MRI and CT scan on New Year’s Eve. My wife, Mela accompanied me for the first time in a number of months and we did a pretty good job of eating our way thru SF in between appointments. Donuts but not any donut - Johnny’s Donuts, Lobster Rolls and Italian. My next infusion appointment is the end of January and happy to report that I am going from getting MRIs every six weeks to every 12 weeks.
Anyway the bloodwork was good and neither the MRI or CT scan showed any spreading or growith of the disease - just some remnants of what has been a lingering chest cold. While maybe not a clean bill of health certainly a stable bill of health. I am immensely grateful. At the risk of a bad military analogy I am very much aware that not all of us soldiers leave the battlefield and make it home. That is not lost on me. I have finished my first full calendar year with terminal cancer. A good part of 2025 was hard - not bad - but hard. I enter 2026 healthy but for……… I look forward to helping Mela more with her real estate company, Onyx Real Estate, more golf, more photography, more family and more fun.
Stay Strong, Be Kind, Be Humble and God Bless!