Starting chemo January 2009?

Of course the only picture I could fine was when I had hair and I had a goofy smile on my face.  I can't find my gray hair pic.  Oh well, I'll keep looking.

Jilly - I love your hair too.  Nice color.  Is that the same as you had.  Mine is coming in way too slow and I am getting real tired of hats. I think it is coming in gray too. It was light brown when it came out with maybe a touch of gray.  37 miles.  Wow! My DD and I are walking every a.m. at the Mall for about 30 mins.  Not sure how far we get but probably not even a mile.  Its a start.  Saw rads dr. today and lost 1 lb this week.  Whooopie!!

 Jess:  will try to change picture so you can see me holding baby.  It is great to have her here  but I still get tired way too fast.  Both DD and son-in-law have found jobs!!!  Thank God.  I watch baby about 25 hours a week. Will be hard when I return to school this fall but hopefully I'll have more energy when radiation is over.  13 down 20 to go!

Kim:  Love the new baby smell.  Did not think I was ready to be a grandma but am loving it.  DD and husband really should have waited longer so they would be more financially secure but hopefully staying with us for a while will get them on their feet.

Gotta go lie down my back is killing me.  Hopefully just from walking every day.

Love you all.

Patti

Aww Misty... I am sorry to hear the news about Malcolm's new liver....  continued prayers coming your way....

Misty:  Sorry to hear the news about Malcolm. Have been thinking about and praying for him. Hopefully he'll  get back to the top of the list quickly and as Kim said hopefully his improved health will last while he waits.  ((((hugs)))

Patti

ladyJane--i love your hats.  My husband has wonderful hats and he looks great in them. 

Thank you all ladies and I promise to keep you updated, YES I think this liver will keep him healthy as he waits for another one, that is what I am praying for. Continued healing to all you jewels, bless each and every one of you.

Misty, thinking of you and Malcolm, he's been through so much, I hope he does not have to wait long on the transplant list. 

Well, I am officially on my 'getting through cancer/chemo' vacation.  We are at the airport in Calgary heading to Glasgow Scotland.  Then we're on to Edinburgh and finishing our trip with a few days in London.  I have never been overseas so I am so excited.  Talk to you all when we return!

Misty- My heart goes out to you and Malcome.  It is not fair for you to have so much to process in your little family in so short a period of time.  I will be thinking strong thoughts for both of you.  I wish I was at second level Reiki so I could offer to send some to him from a distance but I don't know how to do that yet. 

Thanks ladies for the kind words, they do mean a lot.

Lisa - I am so very sorry for the lose of your friend and my heart bleeds for her 2 little babies, so young to lose a mother, I will pray for them and you as you face surgery.

Blessings to all.

I had a fairly decent Friday evening .I went to dinner with some friends and got a call from my dd-quite distressed.  Through many bits and pieces of a somewhat bad cell phone connection, I realized my dd-who had been out taking photos of the moon and at night with her fancy new camera ,also had her dog outside as well.  It was quite distressing at first because all I get is my dd's squeal of stress and click nothing.  Then another call I get a bit more high pitched concern from her and her mention of our dog, then click.  Finally I get more stressful sounding babble, our dog's name, a description of the dog foaming at the mouth, running in wild circles in the living room and rubbing her head on the carpet!  I have this looming dred my dd is hurt and then this dawning of understanding that our dog met with a critter.  Yeah, and when I ask her how does the house smell, she says in a very snooty tone" Well, mother,  It was NOT a skunk! Roxy was foaming at the mouth and she yipped in pain when she came running into the house!" 

yeah, right....it was a viscous wild animal which smells just like a skunk!!! I gotta say, now I am really going to get the carpet steamer.  I have tried the home remedies to get rid of the smell on the carpet, and the dog is banded to her dog house, and I keep lighting the incense.  Sigh.  I guess I'll have to get new carpet!  There is always a silver lining.....I've been wanting new carpet for a while!

I hope you all have a nice evening and I am going to try real hard and not worry about cancer returning.!!!!!

Wow Plutz, no symptoms?  I had some hot flashes before dx, and now I have hot flashes, racing heart and some dizziness without any tamoxifen.  It's gotta feel good that the aching legs  and teary eyes are gone.  My hair is salt and pepper right now and I decided I am getting it colored tomorrow!  I was gonna just leave it, but I just can't.....One good thing, if I don't like the color, it will go away much more quickly with short hair!!!

II had a wonderful family day yesterday. I overslept my yoga class in the morning Used the time to get ready for a late day beach trip.  DH took DS to Home Depo to do that children;t project and DS had a great time and was in great spirits.  He did not even complain about having lost tv privileges for the mornning due to being a royal pain on Friday morning.   Anyway, we headed out to a special beach around 3 in the afternoon. It is the beach were we got engaged and we have taken DS there twice since he was born, three times now.  We spent several hours running in and out of the water (DS was for once excited rather than scared by the water), building sand moutaints and motes (sp) and eatting sandwichs and drinking lemonaid and playing Frizbe and water gun tag (game DS made up).  Then after getting cleaned up at the unheated showers, we tried to fly a kite without success, but also without tears or other negative reaction. Then we hit the playground.  Then we drove in traffic to the boardwalky area where we ate pizza and ice cream and watched fireworks.  Then we headed inside for arcade fun.  DS won gaves of air hockey against both of us and generally had fun.  When we were turning in out tickets for prize(s)  a couple of teenagers gave DS there tickets. They must have realized that he would get much more pleasure out of the token gifts then they would.  So DS walked away with a cheap harmonica, a back scratcher, a spider ring, and several pieces of candy.  He was so cute asking if he could please have this or that and saying no thank you to the girls recommendations.  Then before leaving we had a machine draw a family portrait of us for $3.  We changed DS into pjs for the ride home and he finally fell asleep around 12:30 and stayed down when we moved him into bed at home.  All in all it was an awesome day.  I felt good.  DH felt good. DS was in a good mood pretty much all day.  Just a few minutes of crankiness when he woke from a nap in the car on the way there.   The stuff memories are made of.  Just all three of use digging in the sand togehter was so wonderful.  

Today I will get some new plants in the ground.  I could not resist some $1-$8 plants and the grocery store when I was getting supplies.  How wrong can you go at that price?  Varigated Hosta's for $6?  A Mandaville for $6?  

I need to go.  DH just woke up and DS is still alseep.  Time to work on the Mojo. 

Welcome back Kt57.  We did mention your name as someone who may want to bring Wisconsin cheese to our get together!!!    Btw, do you ever go to the Wisconsin Dells?  (sp)  I  hear about it from some Michiganders.  

Berkeley Kim---I think you are also on vacation, yes?  My husband sipped a nice glass of  2006 Beringer 2006 FE----He toasted to you and lisa.  Anyway, if you missed this because you are gone somewhere in the wonderful redwood forest or something beautiful like that, I'll bring it up again.  I am cutting way back on the sipping of the merlot, though we do go every year in the fall to the areas in Michigan where there is wonderful vineyards.  It is quite beautiful.

Renrel---good deal on the plants!  Our flower garden is wonderful this year.  We have sunflowers, jacobs ladder, echinachea, roses, primrose, impatients, begonia, silver flash, and two flowers I bought on sale and I can't remember their name.  ONe is an orange hybrid that is drought resistant(of course it has rained all summer) and another exotic looking flower that grows on a orange stalk.  

 Lisa---I am so sorry about your friend.  

Jilly---I would love to go to Scotland-went there years ago -we looked up ancestry stuff.

Love to you all.

Have a day home between trips. Got back last night from LA. Was fun to walk all around San Pedro with my sister's dog and hang out at beach and pool with the kids. Glad to be back from the humidity, though. Saw my 90 yr old aunt and my cousin out visiting from Nebraska, and of course my mom, who I hadn't seen since my diagnosis.

Lisa--so sorry about your friend. So sad. Hope your surgery went well today and you get home asap. 

Doing laundry and getting packed and house ready from our trip through Oregon, Wash., Vancouver. Can't wait but I have so much to do, including some paying work so I better sign off and get busy.

Hugs to all Jewels.