Answer Day Is Almost Here!!

Tomorrow is the day we get our questions, questions and more questions answered! Our appointment is at 9:15, we'd love your prayers for safe travel, a good conversation with the surgeon, and most of all that the tumor is in a place where they can get to it endoscopicly.

This has been a really long week of waiting, life is coming at me quickly, but it's like being in a car accident...my perception is that it's moving ever so slowly.

Uncle Dave and family are going to meet us after the consultation and go to lunch and have some fun in the big city...zoo, science museum, who knows! We are SO glad they are willing to make the trip, being with family and friends seems to be when Aspen is happiest and not thinking about her illness.

I have been trying to find a place for us to go to lunch in Portland. Joni found a list of vegan/vegetarian restaurants in Portland and I have been surfing the menus. I am amazed...most things on the menus are created with lots of fat (mostly soy or nuts) and they are meat recreations. If you don't want to eat meat, why try to make everything taste like meat? One menu has exclusively "meat" items. And the nachos made with cashew cheese...someone else try that and tell me if it's good. Would your kid eat this...brown rice, beans, steamed kale, sea veggies, burdock & carrot with gomasio and would you pay $9 for it?

The best place seems to be the Seventh Day Adventist hospital cafeteria...who would have thought?!! They have regular food...vegetarian tostadas, black beans and rice, lots of veggies, split pea soup and corn chowder, and a salad bar. If we don't feel like driving there, we can just go for pizza. It's a little boring without the cheese , but she does all right with it...the cousins are going to be there, who cares about the food!!