International Sarcoma Awareness Week: July 18-26, 2009.

After my donation to the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative I received my Sarcoma awareness bracelet in the mail today.

You can donate at http://www.team-sarcoma.net/team-sarcoma-bracelets

I will restart chemo treatments next week. I have nausea and mouth sores to look forward to. It was nice to spend time this weekend with friends at Bead n Bitch and just hanging out. I have a beautiful new necklace, too.

My CT scans don't show anything new. The chemo is to prevent any cancers too small to detect from growing. I may start radiation later this month. I just don't know yet.

Since I feel pretty healthy right now, I feel as though I am standing on a precipice looking down at a hazy valley that is about 6 months long.

Sunday I will be going to the 1st Memorial for a friend who died unexpectedly last Monday. It was an accident. Old friends from our younger days plan to meet and reminisce with his adult daughter. He was living in a cabin on acreage along the banks of the Llano River. I fondly remember my last visit there. It was another hot summer. We put our folding chairs in the river under the shade of several large pecans. I wish I had seen him more recently. I hope he knew that he had many friends who will remember him and miss him.