I can do this.

My welcome home party was last night and it was beautiful! Thank you so much to those of you who came out. A big special thanks to Tad for hosting it, to Becky & Thinh for the cake and flowers, and to Mom for babysitting Sydney. If I wasn't cheery at times, it was because I'd received my pathology results 45 minutes before.

I had a grade 3 tumor, Dr. Weingart said. This was not good news. All of the neurosurgeons and radio oncologists that had looked at my scans -- at Emory, Duke, UCSF, Peachtree Neurosurgery, and Johns Hopkins -- independently said it appeared low-grade. Grade 3 is high-grade.

Typically, folks with grade 3s are automatically given radiation and chemotherapy. But my case is a little unique. Dr. Weingart is taking my case to his tumor board on Monday to discuss it further. He was surprised my path came back as grade 3 when all indications were grade 2 (slow-growing, defined borders, etc.). He said there is some overlap in how grade 2s and grade 3s behave and mine was likely to behave as a grade 2.

We're still waiting on some information to determine next steps, but this I know for sure: I'm going to be OK. I keep hearing God say, "Kim, trust Me." I do. I can do this.

Regardless of what we hear from Pathology at Johns Hopkins in the coming week, we're getting a second opinion at UCSF thanks to my "cousin" Gretchen Werner. And a third opinion if the two are night and day.

Thanks to you all for your continued love, support and prayers! Our family is riding on the wings of hope.

Here's a pic of SGB from today. We are obsessed with her.