A Good Year

Hi everyone!
It's been a while since I posted because there wasn't much news to report to you. Since I last posted a year ago, Steve has been doing quite well.

He continued his Temodar chemotherapy monthly with minimal side effects. April was his one year anniversary of taking monthly maintenance chemotherapy. He and Terry had a discussion with Dr. Hu and decided that, since Steve was doing well and his blood work looked good that they would continue at a lower dose of Temodar, just to provide some extra insurance against a recurrence. He had monthly blood draws, doctor's appointments and MRIs, all with good news afterwards. He was doing so well that, in October, Dr. Hu said he didn't need any more chemotherapy. Dr. Hu wanted to allow his body to fully recover it's strength and let his kidneys and blood work to get fully back to normal so he would be strong enough to fight the inevitable next tumor. October 2013 was his last Temodar dose. Then, blood work and routine appointments spread out from every month to every two months.

Throughout the year, he went to work and enjoyed his family. In July, the family traveled to Mendocino for my daughter's wedding.  This is one of my favorite pictures of Steve and Terry.

This is the Ravenscroft siblings, Greg, Lisa, Lesley and Steve at Katie and Nick's wedding.

Christmas was at Steve and Terry's home. They have been redecorating and fixing up the house and it was nice to see the improvements. We had a lots of busy fun with everyone around. Steve was healthy and kept busy with all of the activity.