Sometimes I feel like I have bitten off more than I can chew...

...and this is definitely one of those times! I owe everyone I know an update and yet I simply can't find the time to individually contact every one / each group. So, this will have to do. I hope you all, or at least those who see this, understand. I have just been feeling like there are not enough hours in a day a lot lately.

Tomorrow (Monday) is chemo. It had been delayed from last Monday which was the original date. The reason it did not happen then is because we just decided that I could not have any more chemotherapy without a port. The last time they poked my arm so many times that I looked like I'd been through a war zone for the following month. So now they won't be able to do that again. I am not very excited about this at all, but the time has come. My schedule is two weeks of chemo, then two weeks off. That is one round, then after that the next round begins with two weeks on and two weeks off and they will follow that schedule for future rounds as long as the white blood counts do not tank again.

Next week, I will also have some scans that are way overdue. We need to see how things look in there and if there is any sign that all the radiation I had over the last few months might have been successful. I am not holding out a lot of hope because I have not really seen any signs of improvement.

The party for my mother's 80 birthday was really a blast though. As much as it is mostly why I have been so out of touch, I am very glad that I devoted so much of my time to planning it. There were 63 people there, including her two brothers who came from Idaho and Utah to be with her. To be able to give a gift like that to my mother is..... well... priceless.

Now, I wish there was something so wonderful that I could do for Scott to let him know how much I love and appreciate him and how much I always will...