My Chemo Honeymoon

Happy Friday! Ok it is day 11 of chemo and I am calling this week my "chemo honeymoon".  This week has been busy and I have felt good. Monday, I was able to bring Saige and her friends up to Church Street for the day and there really isn't anything better than being with a few 13 year old girls to make you forget but remember the good old days of giggling and sharing "drama/funny" stories of the last store you were in and what  happened……..Although at the end of the day I ended up sitting on a park bench waiting I love every minute!

Later in the week I visited with friends and walked. I even got a little online xmas shopping in….A few highlights: Doctor's appointment where all my blood counts were awesome, he even called me an "overachiever". : ) I took a water color class for Cancer survivors and shared a room with some amazing women, did some pretty juvenile painting but had fun. Yesterday was the best, a friend of mine who is in a similar but different situation went to a class called Look Good…Feel Good by the American Cancer Society and learned how to draw on eye brows, do make up and how to tie scarves. The best was just being in a room of all ages of women chatting and laughing. They had to drag me out of there….

Yesterday afternoon Stiles arrived home with a huge smile and all his laundry. It feels amazing to have all of us under one roof! My feelings are described best by this quote from an inspiring survivor, " Love, friendship, compassion are felt with such an urge one wanted to embrace the world!" This is so true, my heart is bursting!

Next week we will be spending Thanksgiving in the Adirondacks and so I will be able to share the losing of hair with my sisters and family. So know I will be in good hands! I keep quoting Saige, "at least it is not my teeth!" This brings me a strange amount of comfort.

Wishing everyone the gift of family and may you embrace this holiday with a renewed spirit of gratitude. I know I am!

Love to all,

Lynn