Two posts in one day!

I thought I would add a bit more to the post that Pierre did today.....

I was getting pretty hopeful that all would be done by May as I seem to be responding so well to the chemo and that my lymph nodes have shrunk. I went for chemo today and the lady beside me has Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. She had completed all her treatments, went for the PET scan which came back negative and then two months later the cancer was back!

Anyway, my conversation with this lady and our meeting with the oncologist yesterday has really got me thinking lots about how everything is still really up in the air. I really need to surrender my timeline to Christ and trust in him. He knows how this will all pan out and will give me the strength for whatever is ahead.

I have been trying to go to daily mass with the kids which is sometimes quite an adventure with Nicholas! Yesterday a sweet little old lady came up after mass and said that I should be given a medal for taking my kids to daily mass! It was definatly what I needed to hear as Nicholas was a real turkey yesterday. I just find
such grace and strength when I go to mass during the week....everytime we
pray the prayer "Lord I am not worthy to receive you but only say the word and I shall be healed"....it means so much more.

Pierre made contact with a lady in the states who also has gray zone lymphoma. This is really the only person we have been able to find with the same type of cancer as myself. It will be interesting to compare our outcomes as she was given a much
different chemo treatment than myself. We made sure to make mention of this to our doctor in case he wanted to contact the doctor she was seeing.

My hair is starting to grow back! They say that your hair can come back in a different color or texture after chemo - I was really hoping for brown hair with blond highlights......too bad, it is coming in black with lots of gray highlights!! My girlfriend today said "whoa, that is a lot of gray hair!!". I gave her a well deserved swat!