Thank you for asking.  Our popular lurker Paulette has been asking me
the same thing. :)  Betty is still doing fine, as lively and healthy
as ever.

I haven't been checking in as often these days, and haven't been
reporting on her oncologist visits because they're becoming pretty
routine.  She had a treatment two weeks ago, and they've also
increased her chemotherapy dose per treatment.  Her next treatment is
next Tuesday.  It'll be her eighth, no sorry, ninth treatment.  So far
she's had three radiation treatments, two Carboplatin treatments, and
three Gemzar treatments.

It's been a pitched battle over this postage stamp sized area of jaw.
I think that ultimately the outcome of this kind of cancer is
determined by the patient.  It won't kill Betty outright, but there
will be a point when it'll just be too difficult to eat, too hard to
breathe, too painful to live, and she'll give up on me no matter what
I try.

But that time isn't now!  Betty has a zest for life, and is tougher
than expected, an iron paw underneath a velvet mitten.  I sense from
her that she wants things between us to be the way they are, forever.
That wish has been my absolute command.

Right now she's in my lap being extra cuddly, headbutting and waving a
paw at my face.  When you have someone you really love, every extra
day like this is really worth it.  What's a week on a honeymoon in
Paris or Hawaii worth to someone?  That's something like what a week
with Betty is worth to me.