Short update

For those of you keeping track, and so I can avoid having to repeat this information 778 times, went to the doctor's yesterday. The tumor has grown from 1.5cm last May to 2.6cm last week. My right atrium has also begun to dilate, apparently to make room for the blood to flow through my heart around the tumor. I guess an inch mass in the middle of your atrium creates a need for the heart to expand to be able to pump the blood through my heart at the same rate.

I am headed to St. Luke's at 7am on Friday morning for the Angiogram, and then hopefully we will know a bit more. Parents arrive Thursday night and are here until Sunday, unless something comes up on Friday that requires them to stay. I will be sedated most of Friday, but hopefully am coming home Friday night or sometime Saturday. I'll have my phone, and might be funny if you call me and I answer while drugged. Feel free to try it!

Thank you for all the emails, phone calls, thoughts, and prayers. I am working on getting back to everyone, but I am a little overwhelmed, and hitting the point where I am just trying to make it to Friday. If you actually want to talk to me, your best bet is Facebook around midnight, when I can't sleep and am just trying to distract myself. Someone asked me at work yesterday how I could possibly focus. I told him I couldn't. But, work is a good distraction, and I am lucky to be able to surround myself with my amazing friends in Houston, who keep me busy and check on me often. And of course, these two are the best distraction of all:

Love you all!