SATURDAY AND OUR ESTEEMED PRESIDENT

In the morning, Diane emailed me, saying she was going to the "Dump Trump" rally on the corner of Victoria and Telephone, and would I meet her there before our noon lunch date at the library? I wrote back I'd think about it, decided I would, so left about 11:00 and walked the mile to the site. I hadn't realized this was a kind of national rally.

Lots of what I call "groups with gripes" get licenses to demonstrate for or against something at this site, but the participants almost always total a handful--ten to fifteen people with hard-to-read signs, maybe. That was hardly the case here:

I got a kick out of this one. 

These pictures really it justice; there were certainly seven or eight hundred people there. Lots and lots of cars going by blew their horns in agreement and it was actually pretty interesting.

This was a national event and here's my girl at the rally in her town of Ojai. 

As it turned out, I never did find Diane at the Ventura rally. When I called her, I found she had already left--having neuropathy and using a walker, she had gotten very fatigued and was outside the library. I met her there, we had our lunches, then settled down for one of our marathon talk sessions. Diane is just about as fervent a Trump hater as are, as far as I know, all my other friends.  

What's odd is I don't know a single person who favors Trump. I wish I did, because I'd like to ask them why. I don't mean I want to argue or tell them how stupid they are, or anything except I really want to know from a living person. The thing is, people at the rally emphasized they want "our democracy back," but isn't an example of democracy one person, one vote? And more people voted for Trump than anybody else, so--isn't that democracy, whether you agree with the choice or not?

By the way, Diane is fervently hoping Cory Booker will run for president, as she wants to help on his campaign. A Jersey guy--sure, why not? 

                                                               🎕🎕🎕🎕🎕🎕🎕🎕🎕🎕

Vickie texted Suzanne and me about the following and I want to be able to read it more carefully, so am adding it here. We're all very hopeful for a good outlook. This is the medical [art of her text:

Anyway, here is a summary of what the Oncologist at UCLA recommended and my local Oncologist and I have agreed upon to this point:

1. Stop chemotherapy (iBrance) treatments for 3 to 4 months (hooray!), while awaiting UCLA’s results of blood testing done yesterday called Signatera Minimal Residual Disease (MRD), which looks for cancer cells in the blood and helps UCLA detect cancer recurrence earlier than it may be seen on a scan.  This test is amazing and entails comparing my previous cancer cells with my blood today.  The cells within the cancerous tumors from the past surgeries are actually reviewed and studied.  This is why it takes a while for the results and is a somewhat new testing procedure / study which I am feeling blessed to be a part of.
2. If there is any evidence of cancer cells in the blood when the testing is completed around July or August, then restarting chemotherapy (iBrance) or an alternative CDK4/6 inhibitor will need to be considered.
3. Continue endocrine therapy for 10 more years and the Zometa infusions every 6 months.