Farewell Follicles!

Greetings!

Our awesome family friend, Nancy Landers, came over yesterday all the way from Philly, and picked Eli up from school, took him to Mickey D's, then to Chuck- E-Cheese and then back home - where he promptly crashed in the back seat of her car for a "Power Nap"! Thank you, Nance, you are so generous with your time! Please send me a photo of you so I can post it here for all the world to see your loveliness!

Then my friend from work, Theresa, made me this killer pea soup with homemade croutons and it was scrumptious! Thank you T! I'm gonna post a pic. of you too so get eady to smile for the camera. THEN my sister Heidi, who lives in WI, sent me a GI-HUGIC package of at least 20 little wrapped gifts for me to open along the way on my journey. My fave gift so far was a set of eight little glass girls she got in Hong Kong, one for all of the seven sisters in my family and one for my mom...Thank you, Heidi, that was so sweet &  thoughtful I can't wait to open all the little gifts...Plus Heidi sends me these hysterical cards with all kinds of animals wearing these funny hats! They (the animals) teach me what is fashionable in head wear these days. Laughter surely is the best medicine of all! I have such awesome sisters!

I have also been receiving many sweet cards from so many of you! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Some of you I have never even met! Some of you live as far away as Europe! I love getting your cards so much so I thank you again. Please also send some to Chip, it's hard being the caretaker so he would love cards or even e-mails from you!

I went back to school yesterday and am also going in today. Seeing the kids and teachers was such good medicine!!!! Then, after school my sister Judy treated me to an acupuncture session to help with chemo side effects and it was awesome, very relaxing and I know it'll help me. Thank you Judy! Judy is coming  all the way across this whole country from California this weekend to help me and take care of me. Then my sisters Gretchen & Lisa sent Chip & Eli cards and gift cards! So thoughtful! Now those are what I call sisters!

ALL: Please come to my "Farewell Follicle!" party this Saturday, November 2nd at 6 pm at Point Pleasant Baptist Church in Point Pleasant, PA, 18950. If you care to do so please bring a food that begins with the letter "F" to share...such as felafel, fritters, fricassee.....you can Google foods that begin with F and you'll find a whole list! I will cut my hair then do amazing things to it, then shave my head and try on my new wig for you all! (ugghhhh....) The doctor said "Just to warn you, this is a hard day..." so I want my gfs and  buds to surround me with their love and prayers because I am really not looking forward to being bald at all....and wearing a wig...uggh...even a nice wig.....

Okay so this is kind of sad...last night I was plucking my eye brows. I noticed after plucking just a few that it didn't hurt at all like the usual little pinch. The hairs just slid right out easily and I thought, "Oh...it's happening...the hair falling out part..." It made me kind so sad and I realized that this is the hardest part, not even going through chemo is as bad as losing one's hair...tough on a girl. But I will persevere and thank God every day for my countless blessings and choose the positive side of it all....

"The LORD is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation; This is my God, and I will praise Him; my father's God, and I will extol Him" Exodus 15:2

Thank you, Lord, for another day of LIFE!