Hectic continues. May is flying by with lots of busy-ness. But in terms of training, I (Andrea) am fighting injury. I hit a wall in training this morning. I have seen a sports medicine doctor (the team doctor for the Rangers actually) about my knee pain and have been given the green light to continue training. But with the diagnosis of hyper-moveable (the non-scientific name) knee caps. Basically they're not as attached as they should be and they slip all over the place while I'm running, causing inflammation in my knees and therefore pain.

Part of the problem is that after a couple of years of primarily working out my brain and not so much the rest of me, my legs are not strong. I need to build up my leg muscles to support all the training activity that I am putting them through. So that means physical therapy, which I have to find time to schedule in. I didn't make time for it this week--I just pushed through the training and wasn't able to complete the workout this morning. I'm disappointed, but I knew that it was time to say when.

So that's my bad news. Here's the good and its real good.

First... Angela's PET scan (an amazing scan where they have the patient drink a glucose solution with contrast and then they watch the way that their cells respond to the food. Cancerous cells eat up more of the sugar and therefore more of the dye. So they can tell if there are active cancer cells or not. I watched Murph have one and its really amazing science. and they deliver a clear message about what is happening. and clarity is key if you're wondering if you still have cancer.) anyway, Angela had one and it came out clean. NO CANCER!!! So she's done with chemo. but likely heading into radiation treatment next. As insurance that its really dead and that it doesn't come back.

And that's so good I am bursting with relief and happiness. but there's more good.

We (you and me and murph together) have as of today raised $5,200 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society! And those two pieces of good news are very much related. This money goes to making sure that there's the great kind of science that is curing cancer and telling us what is happening to our cells.

So thank you. for being supportive. for donations. for reading what we're up to. We're not done yet, 9 more weeks until the NYC tri... but its been a good start and we're getting somewhere for our effort and knee pain.