Happy Birthday

It's Mary Jo's birthday today and we are spending the day with a few friends out boating on the St. Croix river.  Mary Jo says she feels great these days, getting stronger and not so tired anymore and I think she looks beautiful.  She has returned to work from her 2 year medical leave of absence and has flown three international (Mpls-Amsterdam-Mpls) trips this month.  Mary Jo is scheduling her "every three month" (June) oncology checkup appointment with her oncologist, Dr Gall and I hope to be updating the blog with the clean results from the check up soon after that appointment.

First Day Back To Work

Mary Jo is back.  She has completed all her cancer treatments and surgeries and all her airline retraining and re-qualification.  Mary Jo has not flown since June 25th 2009 but today she is back.  She departed a short time ago on her first trip, an international trip to Amsterdam and she returns on Sunday afternoon to Minneapolis.  She was excited and feeling pretty good and rested for her trip today.  Mary Jo's oncologist, Dr Gall recommends that Mary Jo wear the special compression sleeve on her right arm when ever Mary Jo is on an airplane (in a pressurized cabin) for any period of time, especially long international trips.  The prescribed sleeve was custom made for Mary Jo a few months ago and wearing the sleeve will help reduce the chances of developing Lymphedema, a non lethal but disfiguring swelling condition that could occur.  Mary Jo had 22 lymph nodes removed from her right arm pit with 9 testing positive for cancer.



Mary Jo's first trip after returning to Delta