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Tomorrow is Cathy's last chemo treatment!  We are really happy about that!  Tonight I told the family that I don't want any more chemo, but I'm really enjoying the Sunday-before-chemo family meals.  This has been a long and difficult three months.  We are ready to close this chapter and move on to the next phase.  Chemo has been like a slow burn.  I anticipate that the next chapter will be much shorter, but far more furious.  We are so grateful for all the people who have supported us in so many ways in the past three months.  We are thankful to our families and neighbors who have dropped everything to help at a moment's notice, to friends who have baby-sat, to friends who have organized help, to people who have cooked for us, who have cleaned for us, who have driven us or our children someplace, who have sent cards, who have walked for us, who bought Willow House products or donated, who tied a pink ribbon on a tree, pole, fence, or body part, who have said a kind word, done a kind deed, or prayed for us.  We are so blessed and so thankful.

At tomorrow's appointment we will put the survivorship plan in place and begin to schedule surgeries and other diagnostics.  The survivorship plan will be a protocol of procedures that will further eliminate cancer from Cathy's body and monitor its absence. We aren't sure all that it will entail, but I know we will have a raft of questions tomorrow.  After tomorrow's appointment and a few phone calls we will have a better idea of when the sentinel node biopsy and mastectomy will be and what the next few months will look like.  We feel like we have a good team put together.  References, research, appointments, and good ole gut feelings have led us to four doctors who will help Cathy continue to fight and recover.

Tomorrow will also include questions about Cathy's peripheral neuropathy, which faded a bit two cycles ago, but has come back stronger.  She is having tingling in her feet, considerable pain in her hands, peeling skin in both places, and a twitchy left eye.  Your prayers for help with these symptoms and for guiding the doctor's wisdom in dealing with them would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for reading through two long posts.  The thoughts and words have been building up.  Getting them into the computer has been another issue.