Rocket Dog Molly

I know I’ve been AWOL for a while – came down with a bit of a cold last week, became and grandmother again (!!!!!) and have had a lot of little activities (i.e. chauffering) with the girls lately.  Seems like the day goes by really fast for not doing much of anything really.  Have been conserving and preserving myself for the big round of chemo on Friday.  Am looking at coming back to work February 5 (albeit a somewhat diminished shadow of my former self for a little while anyway).  Once I get through this 3 week cycle of chemo, I will be halfway done!!  Only 9 more weeks after that!  Jane – you are awesome! I absolutely loved the hats! So did the girls actually! For the rest of you who have no idea of what I speak, my cousin Jane customized four fleece hats for me. One is black and says “Chemo Diva” which was of course the first one I wore and will match my black rocket dog shoes perfectly. The next one is red and says “Rocket Dog Molly”. Then there is the beige one that says “Bad Hair Day” and finally, the pink one with “I Will Survive”. They are too much fun! Fit perfectly too! Thank you – was a great spirit lifter! Not really too much else going on – go to get blood work done tomorrow and attempt a little wardrobe shopping hopefully as I know next week is pretty much given to be very low key. Will be heading to St. Louis again on Thursday afternoon so will check in when we get back!!

Lisa

Hey everyone! Please please forgive the lack of communique recently – have been having very low energy days since getting home Friday night. Have been taking a lot of naps – especially since sleeping at night is extremely difficult with the frequent waking. Have not been doing too much at all really except maintaining. Did have to muster the energy to attend Freshmen orientation last evening but I believe it was a pretty pathetic rally. Just wanted to check in at least a little! Well, I hear a recliner calling me – hope to be back to a little more average steam soon and will try to do a little better about getting on here!!

Lisa

Happy New Year!  Sorry I have been slacking a little – had a few really low energy days and I am not sure why exactly since we had a break from the chemo last Friday.  Guess what I did New Year’s Eve?  Rube had left to do some shopping and I decided to test the hair for the nine millionth time to see if anything was happening yet.  I took a hold of a small bunch on the side and pulled and came out with about 9 or 10 so I decided it was time to deal with it.  Really didn’t want to wait until it was falling all over the place.  Was kind of down that day (low energy, bored and have had a lot of abdominal discomfort for the past week) but I really don’t think it was so much about losing the hair as it was the reality check smack in the face.  Most days you can kind of push things to the back of your mind but this kind of stares you down and says “Okay, this is really real”.  So when Rube got back, we got out the clippers, Andie got the camera and we went for it.  Rube of course made good on his threat to do a mohawk (oh what fun – not really).  I really don’t think I understand the mentality that allows people to choose that hair style. Thank God it was only for a few minutes!!  Andie did a photo documentary of the entire process.  Bless Rube – he tried to make it as fun and silly as possible.  He also offered to shave his, although, in all honesty, it couldn’t be too terribly traumatic since there isn’t much there to begin with!!  I assured him that was not necessary.  It has been nice having everyone home with me for a few days.  Tomorrow will be strange with everyone being gone again and trying to get back into a routine.  I need to get lab work done again and take down some of the Christmas decorations before we leave on Thursday for St. Louis.  Have really been struggling to jump start myself the last few days.  I think once everything kind of settles out of Christmas break mode, I will do better.  I miss having some kind of structure to the day.  Well, obviously the lack of activity hasn’t done too much for my creative thinking either as I feel rather out of anything more to add at this point.  Hopefully will see some of you tomorrow!!

Lisa