December 7, 2011 - p.m. post

Hello~

I feel better today, pain-wise, than I have in two months, thanks to the morphine rest I received last night. I might even go to bed early tonight. I'm already done for the day and rather tired.

I had labs drawn, radiation treatment, and the meeting with my team of Dr's. My chemo will not start until after Christmas because they need at least a week after radiation before they do the labs etc. I'll know a better start date in a week. My folks are leaving TN starting tomorrow, (I think) and driving here, so I'm going to let them drive me home to Colorado. (Troy & Trevor, if you are reading this, let's surprise Hailey for Christmas!) Due to the chaos & cost of Christmas travel, they have never celebrated Christmas with us, well not since Troy was 3 days old and we were still in NY, I don't think he remembers.

I did get the opportunity to view my PET scan and MRI pictures this afternoon. I have to be honest; it's not pretty. It's actually very bad! The bad news is, most, if not all, of the bone pain I experience in my hips, legs, arms, shoulders, neck, back etc, is the cancer. 

The GOOD NEWS  is that it's not in my kidney's or liver and the brain spread is very minimal, so the brain radiation should do the trick. I know my oncologist was concerned that I would get depressed after seeing the scan, but if anything, I'm empowered so see how wonderful the Lord is going to be with stopping this in it's tracks.

Remember: "God is good, all the time, no matter what!"

In honor of my Sunday School class Please read Psalm 23 tonight before you go to bed.

God bless....Until later!