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Greetings from Joshua Tree National Monument from Lita and Lou

Huge saguaro cactus in front of the rental house we stayed at...very impressive.

You look great Lita! Love your hat! Enjoy your get away!

Lita~you go girl! I am loving that scenery, thank you for sharing your strength. I have to say, I am quite impressed by the way you are. I read your struggles and no matter what, there you are letting Nothing keep you down, you put me to shame. I am in awe of the woman you are. You look wonderful. We adore you. Hugs and love ~M~

Lita, you look so beautiful in your hat. When I look at you, I can’t get my head around what you are dealing with.

I will die of heart failure from chemo. So much easier than what you are dealing with. I should be on the transplant list. Thanks to cancer, I’m not eligible. They want me to get an LVAD. I told them to shove it up their asses.

Cancer sucks

Your smile just brightened my day. Thanks for sharing that beautiful blue sky and the desert. Take care.

Lita - you look wonderful.  You have that dazzling smile.  And as always you rock the hat.

Thanks for sharing the pictures of your outings.  New England is quite different.

Lita- So good to see you out and about and enjoying life. Those cacti are amazing to see! So glad you felt well enough to enjoy the trip :

So happy that Sofia did well at the boarding facility while we were gone. The staff loved her and sent us daily pics.

Sweet bully baby. Love her

Lita - when I grow up I want to be just like you, we know all your trials and still you seem to go prancing along with not a care. I am a plodder. I will practice doing otherwise.

Lita, you are still completely beautiful. Your dog is cute, too.

There's still a saline bag shortage thanks to the hurricanes, ladies. So when you have your weekly chemo infusions, you won't get a saline drip acompanying your tx. All they can do is flush the line at the beginning and the end.

Gemzar stings going in, but fortunately mine is only a 30 min drip. Vein is sore for hrs afterwards tho. Be sure to really hydrate after for a couple of days to flush the toxic chemo.

Not having the saline means you'll be in for tougher se's: diarrhea, upset stomach, dizziness, etc. Eat light accordingly and have Imodium on hand.

This is where I'm at tonight. Actually didn't think they'd do the infusion today because my platelets were still a little low, but all the other #'s were fine and MO said I already had to miss last week and she didn't want me to miss another week.

Next PET is due in April, so we'll see where I'm at then. Not too worried about it. It will be what it will be. After brain mets progression, i didn't expect to be here past Christmas, so I'm very grateful for the time I've had.

Planning a trip to Yosemite in June. That's 3 mos from now. Hope I'm still here, but it's getting harder to walk, getting dizzier because of brain mets, and as of a couple of weeks ago, my brain locks up sometimes when I try to talk. Very disconcerting. It's the natural progression of the disease.

I remain in God's hands, and I'm upping the CBD'S.

L

Lita, the chemo nurses at my infusion center use the saline from the flush syringes to add saline to the saline bags sometimes. You might check to see if they can do this for you.

S.