This weekend I go down to MD Anderson for CT scans, xrays and MRIs to check the healing of my spine surgery and metastatic nodes in my lungs. Hopefully those nodes have been damaged by the chemo therapy I have been through since my last visit.

The chemo has not been fun, but I have had worse. My hair is thinning so I am wearing hats. The worse part is the fatigue and my current low white cell count. I can't go out because I am both tired and subject to catching infections, colds or just not being able to tolerate my own normal bacteria.

I must avoid fresh fruit, vegetables, rare meat, plants, cut flowers and other sources of bacteria. Poor me :(

To top off this holiday isolation, my dearest doggie, DB, had to cross that rainbow bridge. She was a beautiful girl both naughty and queenly. Her breast cancer came back in her lungs after 2.5 yrs of no cancer. There was nothing we could do to make her comfortable. At 14.5 years, we had to say good bye.

I hope to post more cheerful news when I return.

Merry

Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. Love, Peggy