Miss a day- miss a lot!

Hello folks! It seems that today, I have won the chemo lottery... (no really... I am truly excited).... and been randomized into the national study I was praying for. To put it in a nut shell, my un-welcomed guest will be treated to a cocktail of four drugs, two of which are new and experimental. The better news is that this trial is seeing very good results, so, it is even more reason to be optimistic, which I am.

It may seem strange to have a picture of the top of my head to start out my blog, but I wanted to pay my respects to my crowning glory, for I doubt that I will manage to get out of this with my hair. A small price to pay indeed. Perhaps when it makes its return I might be a blond or a red head.... you never know. :) In the meantime, I will develop an interest in hats.

To those of you who I may have caught off guard.... I was told a little over a week ago that I have the dreaded C word. It appears to be an aggressive variety, not surprising, because I have never been one to do things half way. More has almost always meant better, except, I am finding in the case of cancer. The plan is to tamp it down and beat it back. I am ready.

For those that I haven't spoken to ...  I am the queen of optimism. I am in wonderful health, except for this silly cancer thing, and wonderful spirits, and am ready for the fight of my life. I want all of you to know that I am worried more about my friends, and family than myself. I hate to see them worried about me... so.... while I would love you to put me on every prayer list you might know or hear about, I would also love it if you could remember my family, friends, and the wonderful people who will be treating me. It is my deepest desire that God gets so tired of hearing my name that he wipes this evil thing away just to quiet the heavens and regain peace in the kingdom.

I will be updating this regularly, so, if you want to follow along, you are welcome. If you know of someone else who might be interested, please send me their email and I will add them to the list and send out an invitation. I am happy for my friends and family to have access here to see what it going on here and to leave messages and comments if they like, but I didn't think that I wanted it left open to the entire free world. I hit most of the people in my address book, but sadly I know, I missed many, and was lacking emails for quite a lot of my favorite folks.