Thanks for all the prayers and good vibes...

....they must have worked. Got great reports from both surgeons today. The skin graft was 100% successful and the staples came out. Range of motion was decent, but after a month of home PT, everything should be back to normal in no time. From that end...huge success.

Met with surgical oncologist as well. All margins negative. Other than what resembles a mild divit from a 30 yard approach shot with a wedge, the treatment of my arm is done. Less than 5% chance of local spreading or reoccurance.

The only downside is having to clean the rib sauce off my splint tonight.

Looking forward to a fun weekend and a curious, nervously eager start to chemo Tuesday.

thank you All.

P.S. To honor all the amazing visitors, I've started a photo guestbook. You can go visit it by going to

http://cph3pics.blogspot.com/ or clicking on "Photo Guestbook" under the sites menu to the right.

There are updated photos of the arm and leg on "Triton Photos" as well.