Today is MOM appreciation day! Hats off to my momma who deserves a gold medal for taking such great care of me since this whole thing began. She has been wearing herself out reading informative books, cooking, cleaning, and driving me places the past few weeks. My sister and I kidnapped her this morning before she had a chance to get ready. When she found out she would have to get out of the car, she wasn't very pleased. "Look at my hair," she said! I told her not to worry cuz where we were taking her would cause her hair to look worse when she came out than when she went in!(a swedish massage)...and then I laughed hysterically (may have worried her just a bit). At the same time, my sis treated me to a manicure/pedicure which I have only had once before, so that was truly special. I went a little crazy and let them put "Jammin' Jelly" polish on my toes! Thank you, God for blazing pink nail polish, and thank you Myra and Stac for setting that up for me!

Okay, let's see...Friday at the oncologist's office we learned that the cancer had spread to at least 3 of my lymph nodes, and therefore they would be treating me every 3 weeks for 6 total treatments with a chemotherapy protocol called TAC (Taxotere, Adriamycin, and Cytoxan) and that possibly at the end of the chemotherapy, they may do some radiation, but that is undecided for now. Tomorrow, I will get my chemo "calendar" with the days of my treatments and get an hour-long patient education session. They will send me on Thursday this week for an ultrasound of my heart to be sure it is in shape to handle specifically one of the chemotherapy drugs.

I also see the surgeon tomorrow morning for my recheck after the surgery and he will HOPEFULLY give me the okay to take a shower!!! A wash cloth can only do so much, ya know?! He did tell me that I could try wrapping saran wrap around the upper part of my body and taking a shower that way if I got desperate, but I just kept trying to picture in my mind how I was going to make that work cuz my shoulders and tops of my arms would have to be wrapped too, and I quickly gave up. (You figure it out!) Oh, by the way, if you were thinking about calling or stopping by tomorrow, I would love to see ya, but guess where I'll be- IN THE SHOWER! ;)