"Life Is Beautiful."

Brain cancer is...

 ...just saying what everyone else is thinking.

Right before I snapped today's sunset pic, Darrell said, "Life is beautiful."  Then we received multiple texted pics of people thinking the same thing. Darrell's just saying what everyone else is thinking!

Also Team D beautiful shots:

The Mayfields (left) and the Cases (right) accomplished the first ever Mayfield/Case double selfie triple kiss.  That Lennie!  Photographic genius.  (The good news is that there was reportedly much rehearsal to get this shot right.)

And more Team D beauty:

Beth and Geoff Szabo are the first Team D members to report completion of the Threepeat (all three meals in one day...out).  They also report a quadruple kiss, but we don't have it on record, so we can't verify. 

Cancer Eradication Efforts

• Darrell saw Dr. Park yesterday.  Dr. Park concurs with Dr. Cloughesy:  The tumor site looks stable.  Thus Darrell has taken his last cancer eradication effort of 2017.  Boom Baby.  His next MRI is in January next year.
• We learned interesting Optune statistics.  Whereas approximately 15% of all UCLA GBM patients use Optune, approximately 85% of St. Jude's GBM's patients use Optune.
• In fact, St. Jude is now running a clinical trial for a new Optune use.  In the US, Optune is currently approved for GBM use only.  GBM is a primary tumor, meaning the tumor occurs first in the brain.  The clinical trial is for non small-cell lung cancer that has metastasized to the brain.  Because the cancer originated elsewhere (in the lung) and traveled to the brain, this trial involves using Optune to fight "secondary" brain tumors.  We wish such a trial wasn't necessary, but we hope the findings are positive.
• Thanks for the good thoughts and prayers you sent for yesterday's rough patches.  The biggest rough patch was that things triggered our early GBM experiences.  (We saw the wave from March 2016 again.)  Although it was no fun, hitting a rough patch was a good reminder that (a) we can never completely turn our backs on the wave, and (b) we should never take for granted a day together.

Life is beautiful.