For those of you following the Kramer Family Disease Follies, while 2004 has
hit us pretty hard, it is ending on an up note.

My father-in-law who suffered Alzheimer's, as I posted earlier, died on the
28th.  That is very good news for him and he was given Last Rites ? hour
before expelling his last breath.

My cousin's colon biopsies came back negative.  The doc feels all the cancer
was in the polips.  He is being referred to an onc just in case, but we know
what that's all about.

My brother in law's chemo for lymphoma is half done.  They did some mid-term
scans and can find no active cancer cells anywhere.  They will likely
continue the treatment, but he may not have to go through all six cycles.

My son's check-up shows no testicular cancer, where his testicle used to be.

My sister-in-law, after the docs told us she would be near vegitative the
rest of her life, is now up and walking with a walker and talking, though
she confuses words sometimes and has little short-term memory.

My mother is off her walker now, after undergoing her second hip operation
on her left leg.

I go for my next PSA next week (1? years into ADT) and fully expect .05 +/-
.01.

The rest of my wife's family is still nuts, but all in all, this last month
has been decidedly better than the previous 11.