Hi everybody! Obviously you have been wondering how I am, that's why you're here! I have been just fine. Well, there has been some things happen that I could have done without, but nothing I couldn't handle, after all, I do have an awesome God holding my hand every step of the way! About 2wks ago, I got a really bad rash on my head, and it looked horrible. I took pics of it since it happened over the wknd and I wouldn't be back at the dr til the end of the week. They told me it was faliculitus, or in simple terms, infected hair follicles. Ok, fine, but then it started breaking out down my face, mostly my chin and nose. I looked worse than a teenager hitting puberty wide open! Thankfully it went away in a few days, but then had treatment last week and guess what, it happened again. Not on my head this time, but the acne on my face came back, maybe a little worse, and it's on my neck pretty bad. And it's not just common acne, it's the kind that wants to stay under the skin and get really sore, so imagine that on your nose and remember that I am having to blow my nose a whole lot because of the sinus drainage caused from the chemo. Oncologist says he has never seen this happen before and so I had to remind him that they had never had anyone run a fever taking the Zometa, either, so I guess I'm just a trouble-patient, lol! That's ok, I know I'm still loved! So, anyway, he lowers my dose of steroids, hoping this might help. That was last Thursday, one week ago today, and so it must not have helped. That was a good day tho, my dad took me treatment and I really enjoyed it. We played with his gps, which he had never used before, lol, and it got us there, almost. Other than the rash/acne everything has been ok. This past week I did notice that my energy level is dropping, I get zapped really quick. This will take some getting use to, all over again, cause when you are use to being able to go go go, then all of the sudden you can't, you tend to forget easily. Another thing that hadn't missed at all has reared it's head! Losing my train-of-thought! I hated this so bad the first time around, and was hoping that since I'm so far in on treatments, that maybe it wouldn't happen this time. WRONG! You don't know how frustrating it is to try to carry on a conversation and not be able to finish a sentence without having to pause because you forgot what you were saying, and it's almost embarrassing. So if I am blessed enough to be having a conversation with you, please be patient with me, it may take me a few minutes to get my point across. On to a more positive note, here is some good news. I have mentioned several times how thankful I am for my school, all of it, the staff and the ladies in my class, well they have went above and beyond, once again! The welding instructor, who Doug and his brother both had, has put together a benefit BBQ for us. Of course, several ladies from my class are helping him do it. If you're not familiar with where I go to school, it's located in an industrial park where there are several industrial plants. So they have went around to these plants and have taken up orders, and we have just over 200 orders to fill tomorrow!!! And that's not counting the number of orders from the students at school! Lots of volunteers, including myself, are making baked beans, cookies, and/or cole slaw. The welding teacher is at the school, even as I type, smoking the meat, then we will go in the morning to help him pull and shred it, assemble the plates, and deliver them to the plants. It's gonna be a lot of hard work, but so much fun at the same time! And as a little added bonus, my favorite radio station may stop by! Electric 94.9 advertises that if you let them know about a summer event that you will be having, they just might stop by. So, I thought it couldn't hurt anything to email them telling them about the BBQ, not really expecting a response, mainly because I just emailed them yesterday morning and figured it was too short a notice, but I got a response soon after saying that they would love to come, bearing there were no problems before hand! I'm really excited about the WHOLE day! Thank you Lord for surrounding me with people with such big hearts!!!