Lisa's back tomorrow ..

Norm here again. I'm guest blogging tonight from Smithers while Lisa gets in a quick trip to Vancouver to follow up with her Docs and discuss next steps.

On the weekend, Lisa and I spoke about how things 'seem' right now. In many ways, there's a calm. I'm not sure if it's the calm before the storm (chemo) or the the calm after the storm (surgery). Either way, it has an odd feeling to it. Lisa's energy level has started to rebound. The Tim Conway shuffle is gone and now that she is free from the post-surgery drains, she's walking much straighter and taller. She's not pain free but, for moments, it's very easy for me to forget that less than a month ago she was in surgery for 15 hours.

Tom Petty wrote "the waiting is the hardest part". For Lisa, the current wait is nearly over. Tomorrow, she'll meet with Dr. Gelmon and learn more about chemotherapy. More specifically, she'll learn the rationale behind the chemo-cocktail / chemo-regimen that Gelmon will prescribe. Blood samples will be drawn and these will be used to establish a baseline against which future samples will be compared. At the end of the day Lisa should have a clear-path going forward and know what the next few months will look like for her.

Lisa will be back in the writer's chair tomorrow ...