Rich update for those that were wondering...

I know this is a baby blog, but since I am the one that usually updates it because Rich is too busy taking care of babies by day and working by night, I have decided to give a little Rich update since so many great things have happened to him lately.

Well last Friday, June 8th we were invited to attend a Colon Cancer Benefit for the TJL Foundation what recognized Rich last fall as a colon cancer...well I am going to say survivor since he has been disease free now for 6 months, and gave him a donation from the foundation. This was perfect timing since I went out on maternity leave 2 months before we had planned. Needless to say, the benefit, held at the Jersey City Hyatt, was amazing, and Rich spoke about his experience with diagnosis (or misdiagnosis) and treatment to a crowd of about 200. You know he had the attendees clapping and buying more raffle tickets by the end of his speech (the man does now how to hold a mic and clap at the same time). It was a great night and some of us even won some of the prizes at the silent auction. Fun!

As many of you know, Rich goes for CT scans every 3 months to monitor for any new "developments" or things that look suspicious. This time, well, about 2 weeks ago he had some suspect lymph nodes and had to go for further testing which stinks, since we have never had to go for further evals after the CT scans. Usually Dr. Nissenblatt just calls and says, "You're fine! See you in 3 months." Of course I was nervous (not Rich so much) and come to find out everything is just fine and he remains cancer free.

SO THE BIG NEWS. Since he was fine on this round, he was able to have his port removed. His port is a catheter that was placed prior to chemo that was actually in one of his major veins so when they gave him chemo they didn't destroy his veins since chemo has a tendency to do that. Yay, the port is out, now we need to keep it out.

Baby news ~ well, we broke down and bought a non-moblile exer-saucer. We are 100% against them until we went to babiesrus and put Lily in one and she loved it. (Reese was sleeping). Oh another great place we have been taking the babies. I call it the zoo, but its really called PetSmart. But its really like the zoo for babies. They get to see all of the animals and crack up at the birds (there is a bird room) and ferrets. oh and its free, even better.

Ok, enough news for now.