After a lunch visit with Cadge and Bob in Richmond, we arrived in Houston for Rusty's regular monthly MDAnderson visit on Monday afternoon.  Lakeview RV Resort, where we stay, has a free shuttle that runs about every 1 1/2 in the morning and stops at all the major institutions in the Medical Center...it is a great benefit of this RV park since it relieves us of having to battle Houston morning traffic and saves us parking costs.

Waiting for the shuttle

Other than routine labs, which results "look good", Rusty had no other diagnostics on this visit.  He met with the melanoma team, including Dr. Amaria, and they were positive in their assessments and comments.  He was cleared for his immunotherapy infusion and heartily encouraged to undertake the travel we are planning for later in the month.  We are planning a trip to the Pacific Northwest to visit John and Tracy, Jacob and Jess, and our great grand, Julian Austin (Jude), who is now 15 months old.  We also plan to spend some time exploring the area.

Finishing up Tuesday's infusion

We return in a month for scans, team visit and treatment.  At that point it will have been 21 months since Rusty's dire diagnosis - we still feel incredibly blessed, still treasure every day, and are so grateful for the support, caring, understanding, and prayers of all of you.