Dear loved ones,
We are home! All went well today!! It is absolutely amazing to me how much chemical & how many drugs your body can handle - and you still seem "normal" on the outside! Don says, after all these drugs, you'd think I'd be green or something. It is kind of scary when the nurses "gown up" to give you the chemo drugs - and the chemo drugs are all sealed in "hazardous: use caution" sealed bags...with bright orange "hazardous" stickers on them. I look at the nurse in amazement and I'm yelling on the inside of my head - NO! You can't be serious - that bag says "hazardous"! You can't be hooking that up to me...but she doesn't hear me, of course (at least she doesn't acknowledge anything...) and away we go. So today we've completed the first cycle. I have 2 more to go before testing to see if it's working. Dr. says we'll do 6 cycles all together if things are working as they should...which will bring us up to nearly Christmas, I think.

We are grateful to God for allowing this first cycle to be smooth and mostly uneventful. We are so thankful that He has honored the prayers of many. We are realistic to know that not all treatments may be as smooth - maybe none of the rest will be at all. And we will have confidence in our God especially then. We feel "spoiled" by all the gentleness of this...does that make sense? Oh, but are we grateful!!!!!

Don is out mowing the lawn and I just wanted to give a quick update. Oh - one more thing...I got another wig. The clinic in Madison has a "friends" program that gives to all cancer patients one wig, one scarf, and one turban. The little lady volunteer came in with a couple of wigs, tried the first one and she declared it "perfect". I'm not sure we were looking at the same wig, but "perfect" won out and it came home with us. As did a couple of scarves and a night cap. I guess without hair your head gets cold at night...don't know about that just yet. So much yet to learn and know - glad it doesn't come all at once.

Our prayer is that we remain faithful through not only the easy times, like now, but when the road gets difficult - as it may one day - we live faithfully...and victoriously!!!!

Bless you, each one...
Much love,
Don & Deb