Sorry but this looks way funnier than it probably is for you… 
But I can see there is a 2nd Sollbruchstelle…
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First day of work using BST for my beloved.
Me, straight back to bed once we had breakfast and I’d seen her off.
I’d feel more guilty if it wasn’t for the fact that the medication for rheumatoid arthritis means I can sleep for Britain, if that were an Olympic sport.
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Officially passed my CELTA today, so that’s lovely. I had four hours of training today, but online, so I was able to lounge in the sun outside with a laptop, occasionally tuning in. Not a bad day!
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Of course you have a word for that in German 
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A third, too, if you look at the front.
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Maryse has a phone appointment with the radio-oncologist today at 2 PM, likely the results of her latest PET Scan.
We figure if the news were bad, this wouldn’t be a phone appointment, and she’s feeling REALLY good, but there’s still some trepidation there.
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So… Got the results. And oh boy, they were not what we were expecting. Oh no, far from it.
They’re WAY better. 
So, according to the original PET scan (from 22 July, so roughly a month before starting treatment), Maryse had 12 metastases on her spine and her ribcage, along with a 4 cm tumour in her left breast.
According to the latest scan, she has a VERY low level of activity in the tumour and a weird spot on her pelvic bone that wasn’t there initially (but remember the gap between her scan and the start of her treatment). The radio-oncologist is VERY doubtful that it’s anything to worry about, but she’s gonna get her a scan around June to see if it’s anything, and if so, if there’s any progression and need for some ultra-targeted radiation therapy.
And… That’s it. There’s no other cancerous activity anywhere in her body. Some of it’s gone, a lot of it’s shrunk and the rest is just asleep. Her bones have started healing as well.
To say we’re over the moon might be underselling it a tad.
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Congratulations. it is encouraging to hear 
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That’s amazing!
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Fantastic news! Thanks for sharing
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I forgot to mention that the tumour has shrunk quite a bit as well. So add that to the pile of good news.
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Hurrah! Very glad to hear it.
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Amazing! I went back to August and read everything, including the 18 minute gap between emailing the specialist and getting the appointment.
You must both be exhausted!
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So happy for you both!
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Dude, you have no idea. Even though we’ve had nothing but good news since the initial diagnosis, there’s always that baseline of dread that’s impacting everything. It’s been reduced considerably.
It’s not over, not by a long shot, but man, we’re a lot closer to the end than we were.
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Congrats on the good news about the remission. Fingers crossed it will keep going better and better.
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First of all, thank you.
Second of all, and I hope you don’t think I’m jumping on you personally, it’s just a good springboard for a precision: It’s not remission YET. Remission means that there are no more cancer cells in her body (and then if that persists for five years, she’s considered cured). That hasn’t happened yet.
What’s happened here is that the disease has gone mostly dormant at this point. It could stay this way for a very long time, at which point she’d be functionally in remission, but not actually from a medical standpoint.
But the radio-oncologist made sure to stress that it wasn’t remission YET. It’s very much in the cards.
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So happy for you. Thank you for sharing
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It’s hard to remain optimistic when cancer is involved, so I’m glad to hear you have good news. What a relief.
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Our younger child has decided that kicking the wall at night when he’s supposed to be sleeping is great fun. And if he can’t kick the wall by his bed, he’ll move and kick the wall elsewhere. Or slam himself into his door making it smash into the wall. Or, if the door is closed and locked, he’ll kick the hell out of it. If we remove the door, he’ll lay on the floor in front of out bedroom door and kick the hell out of that. So starting at about 9, my wife and I were busy trading off keeping him from doing any of the above.
Around 12:15, we just decided to let him kick the wall and try to ignore it and get sleep ourselves. Hard to sleep when you hear a relatively constant pounding sound, though. I feel like I must have only dozed for a few minutes at best, because I got up really easily when his brother started screaming about half an hour later. Go into his room to find he had stripped naked, peed on the floor, poop nuggets were all over, and I assume he had either kicked or jumped on his brother, because he was awake.
Let the older kid go into the living room and watch some cartoons while I got his brother cleaned up and then the room as best I could. Older kid eventually fell back asleep and I just left him on the couch. Meanwhile his brother went back to trying to wake up the whole house, so the wrestling match resumed, trying to keep him from kicking things (and restraining myself from choking him into unconsciousness). Eventually took him out to my wife’s car and strapped him into his car seat with a blanket (it was near freezing) and just played some lullaby music from my phone to try to calm him down. It seemed to work a little, and I brought him in about 20 minutes later. This was sometime after 3 AM.
Meanwhile my wife got woken up, so she came out and let me go to bed while she shut them into the kids’ room and did her best to keep him from kicking. We did try giving him a bit of Benadryl first, which we know shouldn’t be used as a sleep aid, but we were desperate, and plus, he spit nearly all of it out. Apparently he started winding down around 4, but was up again around 6:30ish.
He’s at school now. I’m tempted to try to move houses before he gets out. 
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