Nothin' Goin' On This Weekend

On Thursday, Jan, Lynne and I went to IKEA near the airport. I just bought a couple of small items. It is always fun to look around that store. It is so huge. Then we met Susan, a friend that Jan and I worked with at Hilhi and Century. She has started a photography business. She retired from the school district and then went to work for the Southwest Washington Medical Center in Vancouver. Her husband has worked there for years. She just retired from her job there so she can spend more time on her photography business. She has pictures displayed in a couple of shops in Vancouver. She does awesome work. You should check out her website at: http://www.susyphotoart.net/.


On Friday, we had to take our dog, Sara, to the vet because her mouth was bothering her. She has already had three surgeries on her lower jaw. Many months ago, she had a cyst growing near her gum line, so we took her in and the vet cut it out. It was not malignant. We don't think that he cut out enough, so we took her back in and he cut away some more of her gum line. But it grew back again, so we took her back and the vet really cut deep into her jaw-right to the bone. Well, it has grown back again. Now the plan is to keep cutting it out as it grows back each time. At first the vet said that he couldn't cut anymore away from her jaw bone and we would have to take her to a specialist, but apparently, he changed his mind and he will cut on it as often as we want him to. We can't let it grow too large because it can cut off Sara's air passage. It doesn't seem to bother her too much each time she has it cut away. So we will take her in on Monday for her 4th surgery.


I like playing on Facebook, the website I joined a few weeks ago. I love it when someone new is added as a friend to my page. Special friends of ours from Forest Grove, Brad and Widdy, have a daughter that has now graduated from college and is a speech pathologist at the Sunnyside Kaiser Hospital. I am so proud of her. I remember when she was born. She is gorgeous and the nicest young lady you could ever meet. We plan on looking her up next time we go to Sunnyside, unless we are there for an emergency, which seems to be the only reason we go there! Anyway, she just added me as her friend on Facebook. It was so much fun to see the pictures she has posted on her site since we know a lot of her family and haven't seen some of them in years.


I am continuing to walk/run on our treadmill every day. I just have this vision of walking into my oncologist's office on the 18th for my bone marrow biopsy and when she asks how I am feeling I can tell her that I have run/walked everyday on the treadmill. She then will say, "Well, if you have that much energy and feel that good, I must be wrong and you must not have cancer!" Yeah, right!! But you have to admit, it is a nice vision!


Hope all of you are having a great weekend. Ours is very relaxing since we don't have anything going on. Wish the weather was nicer, though.

Love to you all,

JO


PS: I went to school with a guy whose wife just had a double mastectomy. Please say a little prayer for Cathy. Thanks.