Hello! The weeks seem to go by so fast anymore. It's Friday again already and we will head to Madison for treatment #2 in the second cycle. My legs have ached all week - no break this time, but we'll see what they have to say tomorrow.

This appears to be "no big deal" right now, but I have a "thing" on the back of my head - it's a "thing" I've had for years (and that's why me thinks it's "no big deal"). My oncologist would like it to be removed, so we've got an appt. w/dermatologist in Madison on Oct. 15 for biopsy (oh, goodie!) and procedure of some sort. The doc thinks it's nothing, too, but "to be on the safe side". I chuckled to myself - on the safe side? I have stage IVB cancer - where IS the safe side?

And a CT scan for chemo "progress" on the 22nd. Thank you for your prayers!

We've had more fun with this wig thing - who would have ever guessed the laughter it brings? On Sunday mornings, we try and leave about 7:30 for church. Sometimes it's 7:40 or so, but 7:30 is our goal. Last Sunday morning it was 7:15 and I was still in my jammies!!! So, I jumped in the shower, got dressed, plopped on Thelma Lou - and was sitting and waiting for Don to finish by 7:25!!!! He says he is now "king" of the bathroom. He can have it!

Little Livi, our 18-month old granddaughter, was over for a visit today. She was playing with stickers and she was putting them on my hair - but the stickers were kind of moving my hair around a little bit (I thought it might fall off, but it didn't...those stickers were sticky!) She had the funniest look on her face!

We are starting a new study in Sunday School class. We will be studying one book of the Bible each week - Old Testament this week, New Testament next week. (It seems a huge undertaking - one book each week? Some classes study an entire book for a year or two!!) This week we're starting with Genesis - the beginning, a good place to start. Reading through Genesis and seeing God's care for His people is mind-boggling. We're talking "His" people that were liars, deceivers, murders, selfish, and the list goes on - and yet God's grace and mercy shines through clear & bright. The whole time these people are on their sinful way, God is planning for their/our redemption. It seems they know it, too, because they loved God, worshipped Him, built altars to honor and adore Him, and obeyed Him, too. Build an ark, Noah? Sacrifice your son, Abraham? Be sold into slavery, Joseph? Yes, God required all of that and more from His people. Through their life stories I read about in the Bible, I can be encouraged, I can be spurred on, I can be faithful - and I can realize that God's plan and purpose for redemption includes me! How grateful and thankful I am!!

Love to all,
Debbie