Koala or Kangaroo?

I just couldn't resist sharing a little more that I learned about Bartholin Cysts. If they are really bad and recur too frequently (which I do not think mine do), then there is a surgical procedure to change the anatomy in such a way that they will never happen anymore. For some women I'm sure that would be very medically necessary, but NOT FOR ME! I do not plan to explain any of it here, but it has a funny name, marsupialization. Hm...does that mean they are going to turn you into a marsupial? So then I had to think which one would I want to be? A koala bear? A kangaroo? Both are very cute, but I think I would go with the koala. I already enjoy the smell of eucalyptus anyway. What about you? Which marsupial would you want to be? LOL

The picture today is me on the couch the day we came home from the hospital. I was tired and cold, so I wrapped my head up in two scarves and fell asleep. Mark and Cindy found it amusing and snapped this picture. When I awoke and saw the picture, I laughed, too. I think I look like I'm laying on a bench in Ellis Island, ca 1919, looking like I just got off a boat from Poland, wearing my babushka. Probably not my best look!

Today is rainy and dark. I went to bed about 12:30 last night because I was waiting to take the antibiotic. I got up my usual time or two during the night and then slept in until 9:09 a.m. That's a new record for me. My goodness, if I'm not careful I'll be sleeping until noon at this rate. I am blaming it on the chemo, which left me feeling very, very tired and more queasy than usual yesterday. It probably also is still catch-up sleep from time lost in five nights in the hospital. Dark and rainy contributed as well. It was a perfect storm for oversleeping!

Yesterday's chemo round 3 went very well. My port was already accessed, so I walked in feeling very good about it. Piece of cake! We left at 4 p.m., but I felt extremely tired and very queasy. It was more like the first time than the second time. Cindy and Mark both commented that I was "very perky" following the second one, but no one was accusing me of that this time. I took several other anti-nausea drugs when I got home and just sat like a slug, nodding off, in my chair. That's OK. It chemotherapy! It's what you have to do sometime.

Today should be low-key. Mark and I will catch up on some TV shows that we missed, watching them on the computer. I also have to go to the bank and go back to the hospital for my Neulasta shot for the CBC. (Ssh...I'm two for two on those without having any bad symptoms after it. I'm going for the third today and hoping for the same symptom-free result.) Then we'll hurry home to meet Lowell for more episodes of How I Met Your Mother, dinner, then Big Bang Theory, and Bleep My Father Says. I love Thursdays!

More good news! Evey is coming here for Thanksgiving! YAY!! She called me while I was in the hospital. She's flying over on Tuesday, arriving early, and staying until her flight out in the evening on Friday. She's doing these overnight red-eyes that would totally exhaust me, but she's young and can do it. Eric is being sent with his Apple team to China and will be gone on Thanksgiving, so that freed her up to come here. I can't tell you how excited I am!! This will be such a spirit booster for me.

Thanks again to everyone who has sent me such nice comments, emails, and phone calls. The love and support just continues to come to me, and I feel very blessed. If I have to go through this trial, it's wonderful knowing I'm going through it with so many loving friends and family members.