Sally and I are in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA to visit with Orion who is in his first semester as a physics graduate student. We wanted to be with him when his first MRI was read following four months since his last treatment.
All is well! His brain and spine show NO evidence of disease. The scans were incredibly sharp and detailed. Orion's Michigan Medical Center doctor is Dr. Hamstra, an easy going optimistic and thorough clinician. Just what we were used to at MGH.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
Everything is Still Fine
So I made the mistake of saying I would post again in mid-October. I did not. Time seems to have slipped it's bounds and we are in November. Orion is still fine, fatigued and a little dispirited but he is hanging in midway through his first semester at the University of Michigan studying physics for a PhD.
He has taken his midterms and his professors assure him he is doing fine even though he feels, for the first time in his life, challenged. He enjoys his new friends, the campus, the shopping at the farmer's market and his apartment. He has even signed his lease for the 2012-13 year.
It has been a pleasure to be able to video chat with him and see that he is fine and that his hair grows back slowly but surely. Sally and I will be heading out to see him for Thanksgiving and we will be able to report from Ann Arbor.
He is a tough man.
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