Back up on the trail this morning.  The horse and my family  in sinc.  My boots are wearing well.   I spent most of my time during the infusion knitting socks and visiting with B, A and our sweet friend S.  When I knit, I can visit  at the same time.   When I draw I have a hard time doing anything else!

It’s 6pm.  The infusion was at around 10 or so.  Vitals are all good, blood count is good, especially the white blood cells.  All news we want to hear.  We met with our oncologist who wants to order scans after the 4th infusion.   Options:  whether it has shrunk like a good little tumor, or remained the same or gotten bigger, surgery is next.  Once we get the scans we meet with our surgeon.   It feels and looks  like it is shrinking to me, being the “G.O” (see the ABOUT page if you don’t know what G.O. is) that I am.   Short story:  wait two more weeks, spend time healing, visualizing, eating when possible, resting, acupuncturing, herbing, drawing, stacking more wood, going to soccer and jujitsu, hiking, laughing, visiting, painting, hammering, sawing, tearing out walls…you know, that kinda stuff.  The stuff I love to do.  THEN we do the scan thing.  This brings up some memories for us about the pet scan and waiting.  We will be writing about that experience sometime soon I’m sure.

I feel good right now.  A headache and caution.   A nice long nap with B and the katz was wonderful this afternoon as A stood guard.  A came with us.  She said she has a hard time with the port.  She doesn’t think she could be a doctor.  I meant a lot to me to have her there so she knows what goes on.  We are all working together to come up with the best ‘stay ahead of the body stuff’ as we can.  Cycles 1 and 2 were different enough that I don’t know what will happen, but I do know what to expect, if you know what I mean.  B and I just took a good walk.  I’m ready to settle in for the night.  I’m just taking it easy at this point…