March 15, 2006

Hello,

Things are going pretty good. I met with my Oncologist this week and we are still calling it a partial remission. No treatment prescrbed. I will follow up in June with a CT of my chest. All my doctors are thrilled with my response to treatment thus far.

I did return to work last week. Just about 12 hours for the week. I have to ease into this. It was tiring, but this week I felt stronger yet so I am coming along.

My esophagus cooperates most of the time. Once in a while if I forget to eat slow and chew well, I will get food stuck. That is pretty tramatic. Thankfully, so far I can get it to go one way or the other with water. I have gained a few pounds and happy about that. Probably need to gain more, or at least that seems to be the concensus.

We head to St.Louis on Saturday for Bonnie's State Gymnastic Meet. She is pumped. We plan to get together with Uncle Larry and Aunt Judy while there, we are looking forward to that.

Thanks so much for all your prayers. I feel so fortunate and blessed to be writing this letter. I am looking forward to Spring. Our bulbs are emerging and are such a symbol of new life.

God Bless,

Denise