Val & Collette Cook Family

I had a PET scan done the beginning of July.  Dr Shi looked at it and said a whole bunch of numbers  for all the different sized cysts which all got jumbled in my head the bottom line is that the disease is stable, very slow growth.  This is good news.  I had a break from my chemo meds for a month while my Dr was on vacation so I took a vacation to.  I am feeling well pretty much normal. I also have a cyst on my ovary which is big enough for some concern but the PET scan shows that there is no growth from my last PET scan last August.  This is good news. What is a PET scan like you may wonder, well the day before you cannot exercise that evening you have to eat a high protein meal with no carbs you can have dark green vegetables.  No eating after midnight then just water.  When you arrive at the scan they take you to a room where you lie down they start an IV then they go get the radioactive sugar in a safe box then they give you this radioactive stuff then you lay there for an

We have started a new tradition.  Each year we are going to have a family vacation with our children and their children.  We have been blessed with a new trailer (Bernard) and Truck (Roxanne).  Bernard is used as a home-base with satellite tents to house us all.  For our first adventure we headed off to Mesa Verde in Colorado. All our children were able to come  Brianne and Dustin could only stay for the first part of the week so we arrived Monday and quickly took off to see the ruins.  We went on a ranger guided tour of the Cliff Palace.  Tuesday we went to more ruins and hiked all around.   Grandpa made a toy box with lots of cool stuff to play with in camp.  Everyone got a car to play with. Wednesday we had archry lessons from Brianne.  Adam and Kyle had fun shooting the bow.  Pictograph hike over two miles round trip.  Kyle touched all the number sign post this was the last one.  When he got to