Praise the Lord

Back from the hospital. All signs as of now, cancerous anal tumor is gone. We won't receive word on the biopsies until end of November. Also to make news even better, the mass that was seen in the colon is gone and the surgeon was able to remove the polyp this time. Right now all I have set is another colonoscopy in 6 months. I cried for 3 minutes when I found out I had cancer. I can't quit crying now. Go figure.
Biggest problem is I can't sit again. They numbed my rear so I can't imagine what it is going to feel like when the painkiller wears off. But I did get a prescription for percocet so I could be real happy tonight. That's ok though. I have been through this before.
I'm going to close I am exhausted. Thank you for all of your prayers. We will keep praying for the biopsies to come out clean. Love to all Rose

This weekend our church held its annual fall bazaar. At the bazaar they feature fair trade items. I went down to look over the wares to see if maybe I would run into a Christmas present. What I ran into (other than the homemade cinnamon rolls) was a necklace. Simple silver. I don't wear silver jewelry. But I kept looking at this and I couldn't leave it alone. I was quickly falling in love with it. I finally told the gal to hold it for me and I would come by her shop and pick it up. I did yesterday. When I got it home (wearing it of course) I started looking on the internet. It is an Egyptian cross. The Egyptians gave it the meaning "life" and Christians have adopted the cross with the meaning of eternal life. Coincidence? The cross has now become a part of me. The only problem is I have to get some silver earrings. What a problem!!! Hope you have a good day. KTPC love to all

Owee Owee Owee

That exam smarted. I put on my big girl face and gritted my teeth but just imagine nails scraping through your most sensitive area. Because they couldn't get exactly where they wanted to I will have another in 6 months. Hopefully I will be a lot more healed by then. Hopefully.
From having the little article published I was contacted by a gal in the organization who also had anal cancer and she has been cancer free for over 4 years. It was so nice to talk to someone with the same cancer. This is rare enough that you don't find many who have it. I will rest tomorrow other than going to the Y to get my work out in. I have been exhausted today. Mental stress and pain will do it to me every time. KTPC Love to all

Hello everyone,
Each day I go through I get closer to the day of knowing something. I am very nervous about this. I have made some great strides though in the process. I am not wearing a hat any longer (unless it is cold). I sang with the choir for the first time in a long time this last Sunday. I got to thinking I had better do this while I can since I may be looking at more surgery before too much longer. My hair still has a long way to go. But I look one step better than bald.
I also have had an article written about me and my plight. If you want to read it go to www.mowomensga.org on the right will be November newsletter or news and views. Click on that. When that comes up scroll down through all the tournament results until you start seeing articles about our members. Karen Johnson article is very interesting and so is the Sandy Zahner article. Enjoy. This is a great organization and I'm very proud to be apart of it.
I am really not looking forward to the prep on Wednesday (next) as I still have a tad of soreness from everything else. Well, it will be interesting to say the least. I have a doc appt tomorrow for a pelvic. Who knows what that will be like since it was burnt up along with everything else down there. Next Monday I have an appt to get my port flushed and blood work done for the oncologist. And then the dreaded prep on Wed. How fun life is!! Enjoy KTPC Love to all

Today was the visit with the surgeon. He wants to do some biopsies in the hospital and check me at that time. So I know nothing at this point. The biopsies are scheduled for Nov 12 along with a colonoscopy as you may or may not remember I had a polyp and something else in my colon which he found during the tumor surgery. He wants to take another look at that so he can prepare for surgery for that. It will have to be surgically removed he just wants to know if the polyp has grown any more and if the questionable mass has changed. Since they are right together he wouldn't be removing any more of the colon than he would for just the polyp. So more waiting. And I'm sure even after the 12th he will be able to tell us if the area looks cancer free from the scope but we will have to wait on the biopsies to know if they came out free.
On lighter news, I got a new car today. I loved my little Mercedes but it was getting harder and harder to get in and out of it and to get my golf clubs in and out so I sold it and got a Mazda Tribute. It was one of the few SUV/Crossover types that was small with good gas mileage and I could easily fit my golf clubs in the back. This is a moot point now but if any of you out there own a Mazda I would like to know how you have liked it and if it gave you good service. I hope everyone has a good weekend. KTPC love to all

Back from Hot Springs Village

Hi Everyone, We are back from HSV. We got in 2 days of golf on cart paths. We did some shopping and made trips into both Hot Springs and Little Rock the rest of the time. We had a good visit with our friends that live in the village (see pic).

We came home after a long ride on Hiway 7 thru Jasper (my favorite town in Ark) and came home to everything in the house (other than bedrooms) tarped. Doors were taken down. It was a mess. We quickly figured out we couldn't deal with not being able to get to the refrig, stove, coffee pot etc so we took down tarps, put up doors and tried to get a little back in order. The guy who did our floors wanted to wait until Friday until we moved any furniture back in (what????) but came over today and checked the floors. Everything was put in except the piano. So I spent the day getting stuff from upstairs, cleaning out closets before putting stuff back etc. I will have one more day of this and then we should be finished. The floors are beautiful though.

Dear Santa Claus

Dear Santa Claus, For Christmas I would like a full head of hair.
Well, now you all know my Christmas wish. Other things I have recently discovered my nails are acting like they may all fall out. After doing some research I think I may keep them but they will be really ugly for about 6 months. I have also had a relapse of chronic urticaria. Right now I am not planning on seeing the doc as the last one put me on so many drugs the chemo would look like childs play. If it hasn't gotten any better by the time I have my chemo oncologist appt I will talk to her about it.
We ran all over Hot Springs and Little Rock today shopping and just looking around. It was fun but tiring. Mel then took me to my favorite place in Hot Springs to eat. Tomorrow we have a tee time but it is supposed to start raining tonight and continue through tomorrow. My guess is we won't play. Friday is supposed to be cold so I don't know if I want to play or not. Mel is now calling me "Curly" and I am telling him to be careful and not mess my hair whenever I get the chance. For those of you that haven't seen my hair I have a very thin hair Julius Caesar look. I hope everyone is having a good week. KTPC Love