Thursday, April 23, 2009

Planning ahead

I'll make another inquiry to Houston today to see if the sarcoma specialists at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have reached consensus yet on a second opinion for me. They said last Thursday I should contact them again in a week if I had not heard anything, which I haven't.

My feelings are mixed about finally obtaining their recommendation. I have been feeling so good lately, so strong and normal. I hesitate to encourage any movement toward treatment that will make me sick again as a strategy to keep me well.

But I would like to be able to plan for activities looming over the next several months. Ben asked yesterday if we might visit Mississippi for his birthday in June. Mandy has a couple of baby showers coming up that I want to attend. My golf league starts in May. And then there is a huge project I am managing for work.

If I have to be in the hospital for several days at a stretch to receive more chemotherapy, I want to schedule it in a way that will allow me to still do the things I want to do. Being able to finalize some plans might be better than the limbo I'm in right now, even though it's a pleasant limbo.

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