A strong wife
Strength to think clearly about the future
Getting the opportunity to get away with friends for a weekend of fishing
My good health
Both Lulu and I are excited that this is the last week of chemotherapy at the UCSF breast cancer clinic. I'm hoping to make the best out of Friday's appointments with the oncologist, the genetic counselor, and the chemotherapy treatment. We have friends that made cute friendship bracelets to handout to the others receiving the cancer drugs at the infusion center. I will miss the interactions with patients that have been sharing in the journey of cancer. I really want to share these tokens of hope with as many patients as possible.
Lulu's says that she's been feeling pretty good going into the final chemotherapy treatment. She still is having numbness in her feet (a side effect of the Taxol drugs), and feels more tired then normal. Lulu went to a breast cancer survival meeting tonight, and she really thought that it was beneficial to meet survivors of breast cancer. Many of the ladies are 10 years survivors or more, and Lulu said that it's nice see other that have survived the trials of chemotherapy, surgery, radiation, and hormone therapy. She's seeing the hope on the other side of all this treatment and surgery. I've been trying to be supportive with positive comments, help with the boys, and holding Lourdes often (that's really hard). I'm so happy that she has been doing better then anyone expected with the treatments, and is going to be ending this stage of the recovery. I'm just here to give love to the beautiful woman, Luz De Lourdes.
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