April 1, 2011 - getting all the i's dotted

Whew, the last two days have been full of the paperwork from hell.  But, finally we have the word today that Aetna has approved me for the clinical trial. Yippee! also begged and batted my big eyes late Thursday for an appointment this morning with Dr. Brown's office for the pre-surgical visit.  At the visit this morning with Judy and Lisa, even more begging and eye batting secured me an appointment for April 5th to have my port inserted.  Thank the Lord, they only appointment on their calendar was not until April 26th.  Miracles are happening, I just hope that you all keep praying for my miracles to continue.

I will be traveling back to Houston next week with my faithful side kick Libby.  Pray for her to maintain her wonderful patience, humor and stiff control; being with me 24/7 for days at a time is a difficult thing to  take on, but she is managing.  It helps me through everyday to have her by my side fighting with me.

Now, we just have to make it thru step 1:  getting to the chemo lined up on a weekly basis along with my port installed.  Then we can move onto step 2: getting Evie here and enjoying that grand-baby!!!  I will have the best medicine in the world when I hold that little girl in my arms and have Kelsey and Andy.  Kelsey and Andy are the joys of my life, but they may have to take a seat to the side for a while so I can spoil that baby girl rotten. ;-))))

I have a great clinical team to work with, they are a group of VERY brainy women:  Here is a picture of the group when we met on Thursday:

Thank you all for your notes, texts, calls and prayers.  My favorite message of the week came from my older sister, Nita, acting on behalf of my dog Ruby:   below for you to enjoy!

My sister Nita sent the following because I was missing my dog: " Momma, Momma!  I got to go running in the big open field. You could see forever!  The road was long and smooth with gutters on both sides full of soft sand.  At first, I didn't know what to do, but cousin Chili just took off, so I did too!  Wow! It was amazing. The wind just blowing thru my hair felt terrific. Suddenly, I spotted the greatest thing, Free balls lying everywhere! (pie melons), but they were all dry and broken.  Then we came to the stick forrest (cotton field).  It was difficult to negotiate the rows, so back to the road for me.  I went for a mile and a half, but Chili went for 4 miles. WOW!" love Ruby.