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Celebrate!

Dan's scans were clear! 

This means he's cancer free!



........for now.


I don't mean to be a downer. Just ... a realist.

In three months he'll head back in for an X-Ray, and then in another three, another CT Scan. Things will kind of continue like that ... you know, until.

Until it comes back. Or until it never does. But the quarterly scans are his new normal. And with the steps Dan has taken at helping slow/stop a return, we're hopeful that we never hear bad news again.

On happier notes, he goes back to work mid Oct. He's had one week back so far and though tiring, it went very well, and over-all very good for morale! We're looking forward to his return full time to set.

In the meantime, the season of Turkey is upon us!

Or should I say ... TOFURKEY. Mmmm!

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