A lot on my mind the last few days. I went in and had a check up with my oncologist and had my blood drawn and my port flushed on Thursday. Dr. Zukerman seemed surprised by my decision to continue to stay off of the chemo and even more surprised and how good my white blood cells and anemia looked. He felt my abdomen for longer than usual and then said “This actually feels really good, can you bring in all the stuff that you are taking? I am very interested.” I was glad to hear that but my holistic Dr. had told me to be prepared for ups and downs and not to be discouraged if it came back slightly higher so when they called me Friday and told me it had dropped to 67 I almost exploded! I was shaking and so excited. Tina and Sunnie were doing cartwheels and my dad held my hand for a while as we took it all in. It was great to have him there when I got the news. The whole trip over to Ephrata (moses lake area) was great. It was just he and I and we haven’t gotten to do that in such a long time. I was so grateful for the quality time and was honored when he said that he was very proud of how I have handled this situation. As a little girl I longed for his approval and couldn’t have gotten it at a better time.

We got to Ephrata around dinner time on Friday and enjoyed a nice dinner with the Munro family and attended the funeral for Sage on Saturday. I feel so deeply for his son as I understand how it is to lose your dad as a kid and to have so many questions. It was overall a very nice trip and Fawn came home with us last night.