Lots of Visitors

Well, I am progressing through the week as usual.  I am still very tired but so grateful that I am not sick.  I have had so many friends checking in on me.  Flowers, lunch, berry sherbet, sitting and chatting, to make the time go faster, phone calls and cards, it is all so encouraging.  Rachel came by; my friend Lynn stopped in after work; Doug and Tiffany Grim and baby Sophia, who has the cutest fattest cheeks on a baby; My Mom is in town for a couple of days for my Dad's surgery and she was able to stop by; and another friend Tami, who I haven't caught up with since early fall.  

I am definitely living through others right now.  Kate is at the beginning of her D.C. internship that runs through the summer.  How cool to have 10 weeks in Washington?  Rachel just took a motorcycle course, is taking summer school and working at the ER.  Danny was up in DC with Kate last weekend and is getting stronger now that he is past his tonsillectomy.   They all have way better stories tell than me.  

I walked around the block early this morning, trying to get a little blood pumping through my "mashed potato" body.  (as in contrast to a couch potato, which I think at least has some shape to it... kind of a baked potato?)  I napped both morning and afternoon, and after a few visits, here I am thinking about what time to get to bed.  Tomorrow will be a great day though because Danny is coming to town for the weekend for a quick visit!!! 

I am hoping tomorrow is the light switch day, when all the energy and enthusiasm comes back.  If not tomorrow, Friday? Tomorrow I also see the oncologist for a quick check in.  I like her, she is very direct, but lets you ask all your questions and doesn't make you uncomfortable for asking the questions.  I will probably be getting the information on the next round of the new chemo drug that I start next Thursday (June 11th).  It is called Taxol.  

Well, more later, hopefully with a joke or a story or something of interest! 

Carmine