Merry Christmas

Hello all- Hope you are ready for Christmas, I certainly am. With Chemo on The 17th, I was forced to be prepared as though the 17th was practically Christmas Eve. I feel when I go into a chemo treatment, I know I am out of pocket for a week so it feels like I am going on some sort of messed up vacation. I clean off my desk, pay the bills, and try to wrap up everything because I won't be revisiting it for a bout 6 days. So I am pretty well set for Christmas minus some wrapping. Chemo was fine. My Mom and Brian are taking good care of me. A nice perk of this whole thing, is working with the American Cancer Society, they have a program called "Look good, feel better". Basically all these makeup companies donate makeup and a woman teaches you how to apply makeup while going through chemo. Your skin gets really dry, and in some cases women lose their eyebrows and eye lashes. I am lucky I never lost my eye lashes or eye brows (some small blessings) but I still wanted to go because you get about $250 worth of free makeup. It does make you feel better to have all this shiny new makeup to play with. Anyway, I met a woman my age also going through Chemo. She is 30 and has luychemia. I was telling her that most the women I run into are older. She said in her case most people are younger as Lukemioa is usually a disease common in children. Anyway, she was nice and I hope to connect with her again.

So Mom and I made Christmas cookies today ( actually she did most of it, I just kind of hoovered around) and Paige wrapped some presents, and overall we will have a nice Christmas holiday. My father is set to fly in on Tues. He has been battling bad weather in his part of the country losing electricity for almost 9 days. I am sure he will appreciate the somewhat warm weather of CA.