Though I am truly dog tired

(Sushi napping with her head under the dust ruffle of our bed)

I have to stop myself long enough to announce:

This is Luci's favorite position . . .

                                           Morning
                                          

Noon

                                                   Or night!!!!!!!!!!!
                                                  
 
She's laid in a ball with her head down and rear end up ever since she was a baby!!!

And she always has a pretty smile whether she is opening gifts
                                                 
or plum tuckered out!

                                            She loves her pets AND the rest of her human family
                                             

And she loves being a girl!

Some of the plans for her birthday are secretly being prepared while she is swimming at a public pool with her sisters, cousins, niece, and Auntie JoJo.
 
   
Our recent purchase to replace the Snapset pool that finally sprung a major leak.

That's right . . . we don't have just one pool - we have THREE POOLS!!!!!
        

Jesse found the horse shoe set we bought them for Spring Fling Day and forgot to give to the girls.  So that is set up in the backyard as well as the small trampoline and some new badminton rackets and birdies.
  

   Isn't that girlish???  PINK and PURPLE horse shoes?????  How fun!

Then, there is the table all TInkerbell-ish!!!

 

And of course - the gifts.  One is a picture Auntie JoJo colored and framed for Luci's room.

I'm not sure how the outdoor fun will go.  As I'm typing, I hear thunder and the sky has darkened.  Maybe only long enough to wet the grass, go away, and let everything dry out!  I hope so!

So, that's my day - making things pretty and festive and making potato salad for dinner.  Luci requested her dad cook chicken outside, green beans, and potato salad.  She had wanted to have grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup for lunch, but ate at McDonald's so she could go to the huge public pool with water toys.  I doubt she'll miss the soup and sandwich lunch!!!

I'm taking a breather from the decorating frenzy and I'm thinking I should get off of here and make that potato salad so it won't be warm at dinner time!

Oh yeah!  One other thing.  I just went to change out the dryer and discovered it quit working!

                         HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUCI.  You deserve a ribbon for being 7 years old!
                       

I need to go back again on Friday at 11:30am for the same thing.  The nurse who was covering, while my doctor and nurse are out of the office, loaded me up with some anti-nausea pills made for chemo patients and also said I could eat TUMs or drink Maalox if my upper GI bothered me.  She had talked with my doctor who didn't think it was necessary to follow up after the ER doctor saw me, unless I felt better with her seeing me.  I didn't think there was a need, either.

We went for Chinese food after Jesse picked me up.  Ate mainly rice and it felt okay . . . well, for the first two hours after eating, anyway.  Have had a queasy stomach after arriving home.

We went to Wal-Mart after eating, me in a motorized cart again, and picked up a few things.  You know?  Juice, dog food . . .   Important stuff like that!

Anyway, I'm trying to read email and rest at the same time.  Luci's birthday is tomorrow and I'm resting today.  We won't do anything huge - just cook her favorite meal, open gifts and have cake.  The girls are with Stephanie over night and she will bring them (and JanaLyn) back tomorrow around lunch time.

That's it from my boring neck of the woods! 

 
Be Blessed   ~

Started with a urinary track infection Friday night (of course, everything always starts Friday after 5pm when the doctor's office is closed) and it didn't get better after taking an antibiotic for 24 hours.  Ended up with chills, sweating, bone pain (well, that's a pretty much round-the-clock given) and dry heaves.  The on-call nurse said I should go to the ER because I could get REALLY sick REALLY fast with my immune system compromised.

Had to wait only an hour to get into a room, and they gave me 2 bags of saline (IV) and a bunch of stuff to calm my stomach.  I don't usual throw up but the sound of the dry heaves emabarrassed me.  I felt like people in the waiting room were staring at me and they probably were.  I didn't look so great.

One lady (in radiology, where I had a chest xray) grabbed my hand and said, "I know what you are going through.  I KNOW."  I looked at her pathetically and she proceeded to squat down in front of my wheel chair and got right at eye level and held onto my hand while she told me she had undergone breast cancer and she said, "No one knows what the bone pain is like unless they've experienced it.  And . . . I *KNOW* how you feel."  She brought tears to my eyes because it's true, no one can really *know* or identify unless they've experienced this.

We drove home as a huge and unexpected set of thunderstorms were approaching.  I think I got to bed at 4am and the thunder and lightning lulled me to sleep.  I slept until after noon.

I'll have to go the oncologist's tomorrow for more fluid (to prevent dehydration again) and a check up.  Then, I feel certain they will want me to come back one more time at the end of this week for the same drill.  Hopefully, the dehydration part of it will start to ease up the further I get away from that last chemo treatment date.

I've been in bed today with liquids only.  Tomorrow I can start a cautious bland diet.

Just checking in and now going back to bed.

Be Bessed   ~