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Posted 2020-11-11T02:05:46Z

November 2020 update

Friends,

I keep waiting for a more definitive next step before sharing an update, but nothing about my situation appears to be definitive, so I'll just share the latest. I had a wonderful summer, and in my quarterly scans in September they found a 2 cm tumor on my liver. A biopsy revealed it to be a spread of my rectal cancer, and four weeks ago I had it removed with laparoscopic surgery at UCSF. I thought the surgery would be no big deal, but it ended up being pretty painful for a couple of weeks, and my abdomen still hurts, but not too bad. The good news is the docs believe they got it all out and didn't see anything else in the liver. And I'm back to almost full exercising :).[...]