This Crazy Cancer Journey

I liked the title 'today' for its neutrality, but I'm flexible :). 

Yesterday Joel and I went to yoga in the morning, then lunch with a friend, later a nap and a good book, and capped the night off with a play, 'Misallliance' by G. B. Shaw.  This morning we are getting packed up, ready to leave LA for home.  The four of us and three dogs, stuffed in our van once again (but this time with multi-bags of hand-me-down clothes and a tricycle for our niece), rolling down the 5 with music playing, conversation, occasional fights between the kids, and likely goofyness.

Monday I'll have my bone marrow extraction, where they'll look for cancer cells, and sometime later in the week I'll get a PetCT to find out what else might be going on.  Fear.

The big tent, big enough for everything.

Love,
Denise

Well I am flat on my bum while hubby is barbecuing chicken.

Edited by trip2 - Apr 11 2009 at 11:24am

Tonight Saturn will be visible and the sky is clear. My kitchen smells of baking potato.  I bought two weeping cherry trees today.

Connie I did not know that but I will write a note to save for next year.  I was just curious about the green, they caught my eye. I'll never remember it otherwise.

Nancy, I knew it!  You would find out about our little Peep party and rain on it.  Well we get to have just one bad day don't we?  And actually I haven't had a Peep this year!  Pastries are my down fall and Starbucks White Chocolate Mocha latte.  But I have cut way back and now that I have mets I guess I'll have to cut them out.  Now are you satisfied?  And it is so depressing to read the food labels.  I get disgusted and throw it back on the shelf and try to pick the least offending food.  Cornelia  (Connie)

People who eat the very best of diets and exercise, and think pure thoughts, all get cancer, too.  I've been growing organic vegetables and eating whole grains and unprocessed foods, and avoiding junk foods for almost forty years.

Oh my gosh here comes Momma Nancy to ruin our peep party.

Edited by trip2 - Apr 12 2009 at 6:48am

Nancy, have you considered that the fact that peeps live forever and are able to withstand an atomic blast (like roaches) means it is EXACTLY what we should be eating?  Don't we want to be resilient like our little yellow friends, all yellow and perfectly bird shaped in the apocalypse?  I'm with Brenda on this one - just because cancer cells eat glucose doesn't mean we shouldn't have sugar.  Most everything we eat gets converted into glucose, albeit at different rates.  If anything, it's the glycemic index of whole meals (not individual foods) we should keep an eye on.  So, have your peeps with a big juicy steak or some peanut butter and you're set!

Love,
Denise (who eats some chocolate every day)

Pam,

Today I'm off to UCSF to have my bone marrow sucked through a straw by Hope Rugo.  Let's hope her technique is good, or that I am stoned enough not to care.  Let's also hope there is NO CANCER in 'dem bones.  (Though if there is, I am prepared to cope, sort of, as much as one can prepare...)

NO CANCER
NO CANCER
NO CANCER
CLEAN BONES
CLEAN BODY

(enough of my spoken prayer)

love,
d