Hey everyone.  Things are crazy here so sorry no update sooner.  So why are things crazy you may ask?  Well with the benefit Saturday, last minute things keep popping up so just putting out a few fires and getting all the last minute details taken care of has taken most of my caretakers’ time and mine as well (we’re all aware I’m usually the party planner of the family so…)  Anywho, all is looking well.  Thanks to everyone who has helped out so far and will volunteer time and food on Saturday!  You’re help has been a HUGE stress relief for me!  Great news is final numbers for the silent auction are…get this…45 items!!!!!!  I’m awed by this!  We also got Karaoke as well as a DJ for later in the evening.  I really can’t wait.  I’m so excited to see everyone and celebrate all the great news from the surgery with people (I’m so glad we waited until after the surgery for this so that we could all celebrate together) )

On a different note, I had the staples taken out on Tuesday.  THAT was a fun experience…not!  A lot of the staples had popped out a bit already so they weren’t so bad…but just as many had not and as the skin around them began to heal, it began to heal around the staples…icky!  BUT all in all it wasn’t as horrible as I anticipated.  We go to see the surgeon tomorrow (for the first time since the surgery on the 11th…which seems like a long time to go without seeing him to me but…) and find out if my movement restrictions have changed or what.  I’m also hoping to find out the details on what specificly was removed and the extent of nerve damage etc (we know there was some but not sure to what extend or if it’s permanent or what) so hopefully we can get some more answers tomorrow.  I’ll try and post what went on, but no promises that that will happen until Sunday.  But there’s where we are medically.  We’re going to do the next round of chemo the week of Sept. 22 so I get a bit of a break (Daddy’s wedding is next week and my soon to be stepsister’s wedding is the following week so heck if I was doing chemo and missing those since we had such good results from the surgery and my doc agreed, though for the reason of letting my wound heal but hey whatever gets me my way ;o))

So that’s about it for now.  Love and peace out to all )