We had a really good day. Nobody said anything bad to us. No bad news is a good day. Our Heavenly Father was good enough to send us some encouragement as well. Two different people told us unsolicited stories of relatives who were told they had short times to live and were alive years later. One had survived for 4 years and one case that was identical to mine has been alive for 7 years and is still living. Seven years seems like an eternity right now.

Today I had the chemo port put in. My chemo begins this Friday. Between now and Friday I am free to do my job, catch up with friends and family and maybe get enough sleep.

My chemo treatments will be every two weeks. I will go home with a pump that will continue to put medicine in my port for two days. Then I need to return to Parkview to have the pump removed and the port cleaned out to prevent infection.