Been a long time since I have updated this.

Latest news from me is everyone is healthy and doing well. My son just turned 18 months and is everything that an 18 month old is: funny, goofy, happy, energetic, constantly testing his limits (and his parents patience!), climbing anything he can get a toe-hold on.

My wife is also pregnant with our second child. It is a girl which came as a surprise to my wife who was confident she was having another boy. I am a little...

Rambling
Sorry that the last journal entry was so rambling. I am angry and unable to think straight so my story tends to come out quite jumbled. My apologies.

RAWR!
Well on top of the saga of my wife's illness and her recovery from surgery, my Ph.D. advisor recently left the institution that I am at. I originally moved to Massachusetts last year to follow him when he decided to take a job here, out of the blue as far as he told any of his students. It was follow or find a new research area since there were no other particle physicists at my old university. So I asked my wife to leave her high paying job (she took a major pay cut coming out here)...

24 hours later
It has been 24 hours since my wife came out of surgery. She is doing well- not in a lot of main and in high spirits. She is still very, very scared that the cancer has spread and she would have to go through chemotherapy. Unfortunately, unlike my wife, I cannot get sick leave from graduate school. So, if she has to go through chemo, I don't know what we will do. She will be very ill for a long time and I will have to be the caretaker, house keeper, cook, student and...

After
Well... My wife is home and doing very well. She is not in a lot of pain and is in very good spirits. We have to wait about a week for the pathology to come back on the lesion. Now we wait... and hope.