In February 2003, my wife Bonnie was diagnosed with gall bladder cancer after an emergency operation to remove said gall bladder. She had further surgery to take out part of her liver as a precaution against spread. All was well until last September, when a CT scan revealed a suspicious spot on her liver. A PET scan identified it as probable cancer and also found a hot spot on an ovary. Ultrasound, biopsy, the whole works, confirmed it was, in fact metastatic from the gall bladder.

She had surgery in October to resect the liver and remove both ovaries. Subsequent postoperative infections had me packing wounds for months (not a fun time, I can tell you). She started chemotherapy in January and finished at the end of June.

We just got the results of her post-chemo PET/CT scan. NO EVIDENCE OF MALIGNANCY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are, as you can well imagine, quite overjoyed at this. Please join me in lifting a virtual glass to the honor of the wonderful folks at the Central Maryland Oncology Center, without whom she would not be alive today.

Jeff