Happy Memorial Day!

I hope everyone has enjoyed the long three day weekend...I know I loved having the extra day off.

Friday was a "Foob Filling Friday" with the plastic surgeon... (foob = fake boob). Not much pain again this time just some shooting pains every once in while..I am up to 300cc's but in clothes it sure doesn't look like much so I am still adding my "water filled push up things". On Friday afternoon I met with my Gyno to talk about ovaries, hysterectomies, etc. She took lots of time with me to discuss my options but I am not really sure what to do. Right now I am in what is called "chemical menopause" meaning we have shut down my ovaries with the lupron injections. In my case the ovaries are bad little critters because they produce estrogen which feeds my type of cancer. Even though they are shut down there is still a chance that they can be producing estrogen but there is really no way to test for that. It really comes down to taking out the ovaries only which is a pretty easy surgery to recover from..but that leaves the uterus which really will not have a purpose and may cause trouble down the road so why not do a total hysterectomy and get rid of all those parts I don't really need...longer recovery...harder surgery...kind of like using too much ammunition in a battle. She said it is ultimately up to me and of course the insurance company but there is no rush to make a decision. I asked her if it could be done at the same time as my foob exchange surgery and she said she thought that would be fine....gonna have to do some more thinking and research on this subject.

On Saturday morning I took Tyler to get a haircut and I decided a trim might be a good idea for my crazy hair. The stylist that I had was so sweet. She trimmed up the back, the wacky sideburns and got rid of the few long stragglers sticking out here and there. The hair in the back all of a sudden has a bunch of wave in it and she said she can tell that it will come in curly. Once she was finished I even had the nerve to come home without my hat on....I still don't like the way I look but I think in a few weeks I will be able to go "uncovered" all the time....just want it to fill in a little better in a few more places.

Once Jillian was done with swim lessons we went over to Crawfordsville for the weekend. We went to Lindsay Calvert's Open House that evening and it was a great time to see so many of our friends that we have not seen in a long time. Cheryl and Bob did an awesome job on putting the party together for Lindsay!! I was very lucky to make so many wonderful friends in the eleven years that I lived in Crawfordsville. I treasure all the wonderful memories I have from that period in my life and truly value the special friends that we still keep in touch with all these years later!

We stayed way too late with Bob, Cheryl, Tom and Patty on Saturday so I didn't do much early in the day on Sunday. I did run to Goody's in the morning for my "Goody's fix"....can someone tell me why we don't have this store in Ohio??? I loved it in Georgia and now I only get to shop there when we go to Crawfordsville!!?? In the afternoon we went down to Lake Holiday to visit with Nancy...it was a beautiful afternoon and Jillian tried fishing for the first time...that lasted about four minutes and then she decided to play with the bucket of minnows that Nancy had bought and throw them back into the lake. Tyler and Bret stayed down at the lake to eat fried mushrooms that Steve found in the woods (yuck- that is one habit I did not acquire in my eleven years there) and Jillian and I went to see Annie and her kids...she was in town visiting with her family so the timing was perfect. We had a great cook-out that evening and then she and I took the girls to Darilicious/Turtle Park for ice cream. We came back to her parent's house after that and just had time to talk and let the girls play in the yard...it was a wonderful evening.

This morning we packed up the van and headed for home. Before leaving town we stopped by the nursing home for a visit with Grandma Holt and then we stopped to visit Bret's Great Uncle Mac and Aunt Claudine...Bret decided we should hit Darilicious on the way out of town so of course, I had more ice cream!! Yum!

I need to start packing for Vegas...I will fly out on Wednesday morning and return on Sunday. I will be attending Lightfair which is the big lighting show that is held once a year. Once it shuts down on Friday afternoon I will have time to myself until Sunday morning...let's hope I hit it big on the slots!!