Onward

Well...today was interesting ...and its only 2!!!!

I awoke at 5 this morning to both of our cells and the home phone ringing to inform us that Ed had no school today and so I laid there for about 1/2 hour waiting for the kids school to get cancelled and finally I gave up and was just about to drift to sleep when boom the double whammy again of multiple phones going off and the recording saying they had no school too. Which was fine, I personally wanted to sleep in so it worked out just great after that :) Of course that does mean that everyone was home today and I had a whole list of things to get done.....but we'll survive and I can do them tomorrow:)( ok, ok...I am doing some of them now while the girls watch a movie but we did play cards already)

However, I also went into my oncologist to get blood work done and a checkup before starting in a study. It went well. They marveled at my hair:) and at how well I was doing, and then told me I was nuts when I told them what I had done last week and all the activities of this week....I don't know why...that's what moms do ya know:) Anyhoo...they couldn't get any blood through my port............................................................I'm not happy about that. You all know how much I hate it and how it still bothers me and yet...it doesn't freakin' work?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!? ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH. So they had to draw from my arm, which was fine, I am fairly used to being poked, prodded and sucked dry(J/K) by now, so it wasn't that big of a deal, just annoying since the whole point of the port was so I wouldn't have to have them try and find a vein! Fortunately the nurse was very skilled and so far not a smidgen of bruising(and yes, I knocked on wood right after I typed that anyway). So now we wait for the tests to come back clean(and non-pregnant, which it better be or you can call me Mary.....) and then they will enroll me in the study and we will find out which meds I will get and start on Wed.

On a similar topic, I was "introduced", via one of my online cancer groups, to a young man who is going to be traveling across the country visiting colleges and speaking to there and to sororities about breast cancer. His tour is titled, "Kicking Breast Cancer's Butt Across America", which I just love, and the idea of it is one that I think is so very important. He is doing a video blog of his experience and you can follow him on www.thebrandonshow.com or on Twitter(me too there btw). The main reason, other than to support him, that I am including this in my post is because he asked me what my 5 most significant blog posts were and send them to him so he could share those and maybe have them help him personalize his presentation a bit more. And I need your help to decide which ones those are!!!!

Sooooooooo...please, please, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeee help me by letting me know which posts you liked the most or which posts you thought were most important for others to hear/read so that I can pass these along before he starts his tour this winter. Thanks in advance.

Ok...so it is now 4:04 and I am finally finishing this post......that's all I will say on that:D

Hope everyone is staying warm today.

Blog ya later-
K