Dog and CAT for the Holidays...

We are thrilled to welcome our new pup, Hubert the Hound, to the family at 59 Ivan St.  This beautiful Blue Tick Coon hound came through PAWS, a national pet adoption service.  Hubert had quite a hard journey - captured and put in a "high kill" shelter in Tennessee, saved by a rescue foster mother - neutered, fattened up, medicated; three days in a transport truck to RI, a week quarantine - finally Dec. 21 came to us!

Hubert is affectionate and needy.  He is a bit of a scaredy cat after all the transition, but is settling in and loving his bed and toys!

It's great to have "new life" in our house since we sent Frankie the Beagle to the great dog park in the sky in November.  We were just casually looking at adoption sites, and Hubert's wonderful face caught our eyes - it was love at first sight for us.

Glad to have this project and distraction - still working and feeling okay, but learned that my tumor marker blood numbers have gone up in the last three months - not a great sign - so will be back on the table for another CAT  scan next week.  So the adventure goes on!  Exciting new research reported in the NY times gives all of us hope!  We need to use our genetic codes to give the message that those big C cells need to go to their "reward"!!  Apoptosis rules!

And of course I continue to fight the insurance company Unicare that is refusing to pay for my radiation!  What a world - stage IV cancer, yet a refusal to pay! 

Wishing all the best of New Years - and for all of us, peace, hope and progress towards the cure!!