Chemo selfie First chemo infusion done! I went in last Monday (a week ago), and it takes around four hours for the process. And we learned a lot with this one. On the positive side, nausea was never much of an issue which was a welcome experience. I know that can evolve over time from my last go at this, but feels like we kept that at bay. And I've been getting in walks every day, increasingly longer, even if a little foggy headed. While the anti-nausea drugs worked, they als

Pre-surgery fashion Hi all, Thanks so much for all the love, support, prayers and well wishes. We definitely are lifted so much by those, and I'm, again, reminded about the strength found in community. And we are so, so grateful to be part of such wonderful communities. This past week has been busy trying to get things done so that we could meet the scheduled chemotherapy start on Monday. And I think we've done it! The PET scan on Monday confirmed the course of treatment, hig

Hi all, Just wanted to share along a health update as there's been a lot of things that have happened in the last two weeks. I've caught up with some of you on bits and pieces of this, and thought Caring Bridge might be a place where I could more easily update folks all at once. Two years ago, I found out I had colon cancer through a routine colonoscopy (PSA - get your colonoscopy done if you are overdue!). I had a colon resection shortly after and have worked on recovery sin

Greetings from Austin! I'm sitting here in Matt's and Stacey's kitchen to send this update. Matt was able to come home from the hospital on Sunday night and is just glad to be where it's quiet and where someone isn't coming in the room every couple of hours. Yesterday they called with his pathology reports, and.... there was NO evidence of cancer spread, the margins were clean, the cancer was contained to the tumor itself, and ALL 47 lymph nodes they'd taken out during surger

Matt had his colon resection surgery today, and all went as planned.  He's at the hospital for at least a couple of nights but is recuperating well so far. For the last several weeks, he has been feeling great. After all the initial tests and labs, including some genetic testing our whole family might benefit from, he's been just spending time with family and trying to get loose ends tied up at work in preparation for today. The surgery started after lunchtime and lasted a lo

For those of you I haven't met, I'm Alicia, Matt's older sister.  I can think of no one I'd be more proud to call my brother. I've offered to help share his cancer journey through this website to hopefully take a little something off his and Stacey's plates during this chaotic time. September just wasn't a great month for the Thompson family. On Tuesday the 13th our mom had a radical open hysterectomy and was diagnosed with uterine/endometrial cancer that had spread to one Fa