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Good news, everyone!

Dan woke up Maggie yesterday morning with a surprise text: YAY! This means while inside Dan, the doc's also extracted a couple lymph nodes. This type of cancer commonly spreads using the lymphatic system. We weren't sure yet if it had begun to metastasize like that or not. Thankfully, it doesn't look like it. Right now, it looks like we've got the best possible outcome of all this, and despite discovering the cancer pretty late, it hasn't spread! Dan could possibly be cancer free! Of course, scans in the near future will determine if this is so or not. And even if Dan is currently cancer free, we'll always have to be wary of it returning in the future, as it unfortunately often does in many cancer patients. We have good access to good doctors though, who will keep us on a tight scanning and testing timeline, so we'll always be checking to make sure. Today Dan is having the chest drain and a few different tubes still left removed. He'll be down...

#GreenLipstickChallenge #KidneyCancer

June 22 was the first World Kidney Cancer Awareness day and everyone was encouraged to take a selfie with green lipstick and tag it #GreenLiptstickChallenge and #KidneyCancer to raise awareness. The main website did a Q and A too, but we ended up being too busy that day to really participate. Whitney brought the girls to the hospital again and this visit went better and lasted longer. Ayla was such a big girl and so brave, and she wasn't quite so scared of all the doctors and patients this time around. She had special green lipstick to put on everyone and followed that up with painting Daddy's nails green. And she had a special cupcake just to share with Daddy that she'd been hanging on to as well. AND - a replacement Father's Day coffee cup, the first having unfortunately broken on their way in to the hospital last Sunday.  We had the girls meet us outside in the Serenity Garden, where Dan could get sunshine and fresh air. The visit did him good. Almost as g...