A Very Happy Birthday

Kevin and a F-18

Happy Birthday, Mary Jo is feeling good and celebrating her 46th birthday today.  Mary Jo attended the St Cloud Airshow on Saturday with friends, Jason, Nichole and Jake Reimer, Jamie Page and Mary Prizenna.  We all had a great time and its great to see MJ back to feeling like herself and not so tired anymore these days.

Mary Jo and Quick

Mary Jo, Nichole, Mary P. and Jamie

Yoga For The Cure

One of Mary Jo's old friends from school, business owner Bob Ernst sponsored a benefit at his Edina business (Core Power Yoga & Spa) last Friday to celebrate his companies 2nd Anniversary and raise money for the Cure with FREE YOGA all day (Friday June 18th), as well as Sales on ALL retail, outdoor yoga classes to LIVE MUSIC, Free Mini Spa treatments, and catered food! All benefiting Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Awareness and Research with a very generous $5,000 cash donation to my fundraising effort. There was a huge turnout and the event was a great success.  Thanks Bob.

Mary Jo and Bob at Core Power

The free Yoga class under the pavillion

Cleared By The Doctor

Mary Jo met with her GYN oncology surgeon,  Dr Cathy Casey today for the 8 week post op visit as a follow up to the recent robotic assisted prophylactic hysterectomy.  Dr Casey examined Mary Jo in her office and explained that everything is healing well, as expected and looking good.  Mary Jo described to Dr Casey feeling more tired than usual in the past few weeks and Dr Casey said that this is completely normal for women to experience this side effect.  The main cause she explained is "from the cumulative effects of chemo and radiation sessions in addition to the body trying to heal from the latest surgical procedure".  The weather we have been experiencing for the past few weeks has been a bit depressing, to say the least.  It's mid June and we have only had two days so far this month were it has not rained so from Mary Jo's perspective, there is not much incentive to get out of bed when your feeling tired.  She is such a trooper.

Too Much Fun

 Mary Jo has been feeling well for more than a few weeks now. We spent last weekend, Memorial Day with friends at Minnehaha Falls riding a Surry Bike (four passenger peddle bike) and then visited Ft. Snelling National Cemetery to pay our respects to the fallen veterans.

On Friday, our good friends Bob and Patti Calhoun allowed the use their beautiful boat to go boating on the St Croix to celebrate my birthday.

We got up early on Saturday morning to “road trip” to Eau Claire with friends, Jason, Nichole and Jamie to see the Eau Claire Air Show and also attend the graduation party of Vicky Spaeth-Rosenthal’s daughter Alex. The weather yesterday was cool and damp and unfortunately again, Mary Jo may have picked up a virus. Mary Jo’s immune system is still impaired from the cumulative effects from chemo and radiation. It is easy to forget about the health complications when the weather is summer like and you are celebrating birthdays and holidays but Mary Jo still needs to be mindful of this and we are getting another reminder with this latest bout. Tomorrow morning Mary Jo has her examination and case consultation with her oncologist Dr Gall just prior to her Herceptin (biologic chemo) treatment. As part of the examination, Dr Gall always does a complete hematology analysis of Mary Jo’s blood. We are hopeful that Mary Jo’s blood count numbers will have improved over her last post-chemo and radiation analysis.

riding the Surry bike     back seat- Nichole, Jake, Jason
front- Mary Jo and Kevin