Iron Man

Kev has wanted to see Ironman, but due to his busy schedule we hadn’t been able to fit it in. Yesterday afternoon, we finally went – and it was a great movie. Kev was especially excited to see the C-17 used in the movie was the same T1 article that he flew on himself during flight test days. (Kev work on the C-17 program from ’85-’96 starting with original design and following through with flight test and production). And during one scene the main character, Tony Stark, walks off the plane via the Cargo Ramp so we enjoyed up close viewing of the Cargo Door, Ramp and Toes – all of which Kev was intimately involved with during original design. He easily identified the T1 article by the unique hardware installed and was even kind enough to explain each one to us throughout the scene so we too could enjoy the moment. :-) Luckily the movie theater was not very crowded for the matinee showing otherwise we’d have been booted out for talking too much.

The scan results we received on Fri were not good – 3 new brain metastases and numerous additional (although small) subarachnoid/leptomeningeal metastases. But Kev’s oncologist is always optimistic so even though he went through the scans very thoroughly with us, we focused mostly on our options. We have an appointment with the Targeted Therapy on Wed and a tentative treatment scheduled for Th. He seems to think the experimental trials offered by Targeted Therapy are our best option, but we haven’t seen a protocol yet, so we don’t know exactly what these trials involve. If we get accepted, that’s the approach we’ll follow. If we don’t get accepted then we have radiation & surgery options for the brain.