A very good morning to you, shipmates!:
Just spent a superb weekend with old military friends up at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland....including my best Senior Chief pal and his family from Ft. Meade. Met both couples while stationed overseas and still have kept in touch. These are the weekends that recharge your batteries.
Which, my wife and I needed after the full-body PET Scan results came thru this past Friday afternoon. As you know, it has been pretty darn miraculous in fighting off this melanoma cancer for the last 17 months, and hopefully many, many more months to come.
However, we received some less than hopefull news after a full-body PET Scan result showed the cancer is just not stopping in the liver or adrenal glands.....so all current chemo treatments have been halted. So with the Brain lesions, I do not qualify for ANY clinical trial in the country. Just the way it goes. We will, however, do another Brain MRI in March to see if the gamma ray treatment I had in December has made all the brain lesions disappear. If so, game on, boys....the flood gates of clinical trials opens back up.
But, of course, cancer is tricky....and although I am feeling pretty darn good and still working half-days on the BUSH every day...the fatigue is starting to get to me a bit and you never know what will happen one month from now or two years from now.
Yet as we....and my family and shipmates who are supporting us, mind you!.....take it day by day, you can nothing more than enjoy what you've got. Heck, you should see the number of family from around the country, and old shipmates, are starting to fly in within the next couple of months. It's fantastic!
And Demetria and I have a well-developed plan of family/friends scheduling (what a nightmare - smile!), future plans, places to go, people to see, and whatever else we need to add to the calendar. You think after 17 months, I am going to stop what I am doing because of this mindless cancer? -- You can bet, NOT!
Still have knowledge, experiences, opinions, and recommendations to pass on to our junior sailors, junior Chiefs, and junior officers onboard the BUSH. It gives me great pleasure to do this every single day.
So my best to you all today....give that wife and, if you have kids, a huge hug today, shipmates!
Many regards,
SKCS Chuck Zwierzynski
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