Happy Friday!

Hi, I hope this post finds everyone doing well.  I am on the upswing.  Energy is pretty good, eating is good...no rash and no fever this time.  So, week #2 has been better than most so far.  (I do have a little rash at site of injection and around my hands, I am downplaying it until I am told its a problem. That is why I wrote it in parenthesis. :))

So, I know last week I wrote about a "difficult week".  Please understand that I have a good attitude, I am upbeat, I don't have very many emotional episodes as you would think.  Please know that when I post to this blog, I share all of my experiences- the good and the bad.  This is a very serious situation and will continue to be, and I may choose to tell you about the times I stay up til 2am to process.  But I also may tell you about the times that I laugh at myself.  If we are going to do this together, stay with me and swing through it all- the good and not so good.

This week, I did see Dr. Jim Roach with the Integrative Medicine Center.  So, he is basically "Dr. Botanical Treatment" himself, I just made that up.  It was a very interesting experience.  I don't have a final judgement just yet, and I am keeping an open mind.  But when he told me I couldn't eat chicken eggs, I said "the eggs I buy at the grocery?" he said "correct, but you can eat duck eggs."  I said I am not eating duck eggs!  And then I can eat pistachios and walnuts but must take Zinc after I eat them.  There are about a thousand more restrictions and consequences. I am still sifting through it to see what I can do.  Bottom line is that I am naturally just not a botanical kind of person with or without cancer.  I am a realistic kind of person.  I live in a small town with a Walmart for a grocery, 5 Mexican restaurants, 5 pizza places, McDonalds, Lee's Chicken and Dairy Queen.  I MIGHT have a different perspective if I had a whole foods market around the corner and a farmer's market every week.  Regardless, I need to see what will work for me and I am not opposed but it will take work! I will report back.

Also, my family and I made significant steps to embracing the idea to get a second opinion, possibly switching doctors, finding a nicer facility, etc.  If I wake up in the middle of the night, these are the things racing through my mind.  I will report back on this.

I am going to celebrate Jack's birthday on Saturday by taking 5 children to KY Kingdom.  Chris will be there, but this seems ridiculous for me. :) I will be fine, I promise...I will take breaks, stay in the shade and not touch anything, except a funnel cake because I can and I want to! :) LOL!

Not sure who all reads this, but if you do, I love you and I appreciate that you care. :) By now, the newness has worn off and some people don't stay plugged in.  If you are still plugged in, I know you care and thank you from my heart. ;) Hope you are enjoying your summer.  Jack starts school in 10 days, that is crazy!  But I look forward to it for him.  Structure in the middle of all of this is a good thing for him.

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