One more dawn, one more day... One Day More!
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Tomorrow morn, I'll hear from the hospital on when they want me to come in. So - heh - one last day of freedom before four days of confinement 
I've been getting ready - since this chemo treatment will be more intense, hair loss is pretty much guaranteed. Everyone's been telling me to get my hair cut short in advance so when clumps go missing, it doesn't look as bad - so I did. Here is the new shorter haircut.
They've also been telling me I should get a hat. Now, I've NEVER been a hat person - it's actually more memorable the few times that I have worn a hat. And I definately didn't wanna get a baseball type hat (not that I really wanted to get a hat at all - I was fine with concept of going around bald). But then it was pointed out to me by my sister that I'm used to having a very thick head of hair - and I'll really notice the cold. So, went out and after going up and down the mall, found a very cool hat I liked at J Crew. Here are two pics of me wearing it - one front view and one side view.
I like it - if I lived in a colder area normally, I might even use it regularly, not just when I've lost my hair. In fact - bringing it to DC when Dan and I go in late January sounds like a good idea.
So - mainly been spending the last few days getting last minute chores done - all the bills are caught up, I wrote out a few thank you cards to people who sent flowers and stuff to me in the hospital (heh though have many more cards I need to do) and just generally got things set up so I don't have to worry about anything this next upcoming week other than dealing with the treatments. Also was nice to work on the wedding invite list a bit - hoping to send out "save the date" cards by the end of November.
Mood has been pretty good - one thing that's REALLY helped along those lines is that my appetite has been totally normal recently - actually been hungry and eating good size meals again. Last night, this was especially good as Dan made his FANTASTIC meatloaf - YUM!
Oh - don't think I posted this info yet - I finally found out the story with Stanford. My insurance has approved me for going - this will basically be JUST for the bone marrow treatment (ie, they take out my bone marrow, cull off the good part, grow it and after all the chemo and potential radiation kills my bone marrow, put back in the good grown bone marrow). I thought the appointment to go down there would be soon - but acutally my doctor wants me to go through one round of HyperCVAD-R first, so Stanford will be mid-November (which is why they haven't called yet to schedule - but they will as it gets closer). So that clears up the confusion of when I'm going down there and why they hadn't called yet.
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