September 5

Hi!

We saw Dr. Meena yesterday who immediately remarked that she thinks Denny is looking much better. She decided to lower the steroid dose, so now he's at 3mg. daily. She also lowered the dosage of a medicine that affects his heart rhythm and blood pressure. Both could and should make him feel a lot better if his body reacts like we are hoping it will.

After Den's next appointment there will be another MRI to see what's going on with that tumor. Regardless of the outcome, we will go to see Steve Howard, who is back at the UW, and get his opinion. We love Dr. Meena and suspect that she and Steve will have the same thoughts, but we've learned that it never hurts to have a couple of people take a look at test results. We always ask Phil Yazbak for his take on the current status of everything, too. He's been with us from day one and we value his evaluations as much as any. I just can't imagine what would have happened if Phil hadn't taken care of that trigeminal neuralgia that hit Denny so hard. I believe life would be a whole lot different--and not for the best. We have been so very fortunate to have such wonderful doctors right here.

I'm down to the two final projects at State Street. Once I paint the powder room and the porch floor I will know that every square inch of the house has been given some type of attention. It really has turned out nice, but I'm happy to be done with it.

Hopefully, everybody reading this will enjoy this long weekend in the company of family and/or friends. Take care of each other!

Love,
Carla