Sunny Saturday

 Reports are temps will be upper 70's then back to lower numbers, again.  Regardless the weather it's my goal to enjoy the day.  It's been a stellar week; the end of formal radiation and chemo treatments, once more hearing that my monster is being destroyed and now getting ready for the first in-patient bombing of my monster. I want to laugh, I want to cry, I want to hug every person I see, I want to sing, dance, build sand castles, but mostly I simply want nothing but praises of love to my Heavenly Father rolling out of my mouth!!

Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. Psalm 150:2

Yesterday was to be my last chemo treatment but I was given a reprieve due to radiation being completed on Wednesday; Dr. B and Dr. C agreed I didn't need to have the 5th chemo, yay!  I did, however, have lab tests done and surprisingly my platelets increased to 71K from 68K but every other count plummeted.  Dr. B already has me set up for transfusions during the implant operation on Monday.  The radiation burns keep getting worse and I'm told this is to be expected for another 2 months before it starts to improve.  Meanwhile I'll keep using special skin care procedures/products to aid in damage/pain control. (and it looks like the happy pills aren't getting shelved any time soon either.)

I've no idea what the high fever was about last night but around 2 AM I woke up soaked; fever broken.  I simply cannot afford to get sick right now and of course I am consistently surrounded by sick folks both at the hospital and here at the apt bldg.  Even though I've had tetnus, flu and pneumonia shots there's always some bacteria waiting to attack us, eh?  Today I'm feeling exhausted ( yeah, so what else is new, right?) I've already done the few chores I wanted to do so I guess if I want to fritter the day away by snoozing it's no big deal.

Right now I think I'll take my coffee, journal and go outside.  Writing in the journal is more productive for me when I am enjoying the great outdoors.  So I'll close this for now; let's all have a glorious day!

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
-- Agatha Christie