Hello all.  Sorry, it’s been crazy around here.  Right now I’m battling a hell of a swollen throat and major swollen gums (my remaining wisdom teeth we think which of course we can’t do anything about b/c of a. my lovenox and b. chemo…grrr like more complications were needed)…anywho that’s where I am right now…we did end up doing chemo it was just delayed a couple of days (which meant instead of tuesday to friday we were there wednesday night to sunday afternoon)…it was interesting…it wasn’t as bad as round 4 in intensity of sickness but I’m STILL sick from in (imagine a mild to moderate stomach flu) and it’s now been 8 days since the actual chemo was over and the symptoms really haven’t lessened any…which is unusual, however, all in all I’ll take the stomach flu for weeks over round 4 (or round 3) side effects any day…really don’t want to go back to those…I’m hoping since there was such a long span between rounds 4 and 5 that it’s actually kinda like starting over now so that maybe round 7 will be crappy like round 3 was but nothing will be like round 4 and the worst is over????!!!!????? that’s what I’m hoping at least.  My leg is doing alright I suppose.  Still meeting with Dr. Allan this week to discuss where it is.  If I’m standing I can bend it when I move kinda like I am going to crouch (I can’t bend it even close enough to actually crouch but if I push down like I’m going to the knee moves quite a bit more than I thought it would) it only works if I’m standing and actually pushing down with my upper body…I still can’t actually get the knee to bend on it’s own without some catalyst…I still can’t do anything with it when I try to bring my leg back (picture bending your knee to bring your feet to your butt like with jumping rope)…it goes NOWHERE when I try to do that so I’m hoping we’re going to seriously talk about physical therapy on Wednesday when we meet with Dr. Allan.  But the wound is healing beautifully and the swelling is down considerably.  There’s still obvious fluid build up but since I suspect that’s what’s giving me my most stablity when walking (this I gleamed from the fact that the 2 previous times we had it drained, walking was WAY more difficult before it filled back up again) I’m ok with it.  It really swelled while we were in for chemo but has since come down.  Hmm what else…helped daddy build a porch railing this weekend, it was very nice…tiring…but in a good way…Of course I didn’t do much but hold boards, draw lines, sand and paint but it’s a lot more than I’ve been able to do in a while so it was really nice )  Should start round 6 next week and then round 7 on election day and then we should be done with chemo!  Keep your fingers crossed that all goes well )  Love to all and peace out!