One Week Until Thanksgiving

I am hoping that we will be free of the clinic long enough to go to Asheville for Thanksgiving day. We have a long tradition of hiking with our group there and then eating a big potluck dinner together at someone's house. Susan and Donna are hosting this year. If we end up being seen at the clinic and have to remain in the Triangle, our friends here are having a similar deal and have graciously invited us. No offense to our truly terrific friends here, who we'd love to see, but we are hoping to get to the mtns. We haven't been to Asheville in 3 weeks due to my chemo and treatments here in the clinic, but it would be nice to do ONE THING this year that we usually do. Before I get too ahead of myself, I am quick to remember that it is not on my time, as Susan says. Regardless of where we end up eating dinner, I'm making a sweet potato-pecan casserole and pecan pie, and we will enjoy being with everyone.

I am sitting in my Duke blue recliner waiting to get my labs back. I feel tired, so I bet I need a transfusion of blood and platelets. If so, we'll be here a while waiting for all of that blood and platelets to be cross checked and arrive from the hospital.

Today's workout was a row and push-ups before I came to the clinic. I felt tired but did it anyway. I won't know what to do with myself once my counts come back for good and keep climbing to normal and beyond.