Hi all, it’s me AGAIN! Just wanted to say that I’m home (we got here around 6 PM or so). Hope you like the pics! One is from the first day of isolation and the others are obviously from today!

Hope you’re having a wonderful week. I meet with my team tomorrow, so I’ll let you know how that goes when I get the chance. My chemo starts at the end of the week….let’s just get through this and MOVE ON to the next part!! I’m ready!

5.9 is the magic number!!!!!!!  I’M OUTTA HERE!!!!!!!!!!  Can’t wait to get back outside.  Although it’s too bad I’m not as hot as I used to be.  :)  hahahah get it?  as in pretty?  Wow, I’m a dork…oh well.  Alright, I’m off to get ready to ship out of this joint.

Love,

Julie

Mornin’! Actually, it’s 12:10, so I guess technically it’s afternoon. Anyway, I was relaxing, flipping through “Southern Living”, missing Virginia and listening to “Ellen” in the background when this singer came on. Sometimes I’m the last one to hear about a singer, but this guy’s awesome!! Have you heard of Joshua Radin? Go to this website, and the first song that plays automatically is my new fave…it’s so pretty!! http://www.joshuaradin.com/

Whatdoyathink? Actually, all of the songs I listened to sound awesome, so I think I’ll be burning myself a little CD as soon as I break outta this hospital. I’m still waiting for them to come and measure my “hotness”, but hopefully I’m goin’ home today!! My nurse thinks maybe they’re waiting until afternoon to take the measurements to insure that I’ll be low enough to leave.

The computer’s about to die so I better go plug it in…I can’t wait ’til I can type on it without plastic on the keys and gloves on my hands!! Hope everyone’s doing well. Oh, and one more thing, if you haven’t seen this yet, take a look…pretty lucky dog, I’d say!!

http://www.whec.com/article/stories/S599962.shtml?cat=565

Love ya.

Happy Monday, folks!

It’s almost 5:30 PM, and I just thought I’d write a little somethin’ in the ol’ blog before getting my dinner (mushroom bisque, oyster crackers, rice and jello….mmm!!) and flippin’ on the tv. All is well here. I still have nausea fairly frequently, although sometimes it’s hard for me to tell the difference between nausea and being hungry…anyone ever had that problem? No food looks especially good, except for the Italian ice I had this afternoon…they even sent me two!! I’ve pretty much kept up with some sort of anti-nausea medication, but last night I did get sick…well, technically this morning. I called my nurse at 2:30 AM and told her I felt nauseous. I walked over to the door so she could put the Ativan into my iv tubing, and literally, as she put it in, I had to grab my little basin that I left out next to my bed (just in case), crouched down on the floor and threw up. Yuuuuummy!! It takes me a while to get going in the morning, because the blah feeling lasts a long time, but eventually I feel well enough to get in the shower and ride the bike a bit.

Now it’s 7:25 and I’m watching my show, “Wheel of Fortune”…no, it didn’t take me two hours to write that last bit…I’m a busy girl, you know! I may be in isolation, but I have to tend to phone calls and e-mail, and well, you know how popular I am, so it takes a while! hahahahahaha I didn’t get the answer to the bonus round ’cause they put up a ridiculous clue…it was “place” and the answer was “museum wing”….museum wing? Seriously?!!! They need some new clue maker-uppers, don’t you think?

OK, now it’s 9:40…wow, it’s taking me a long time to write this, huh? I flipped through a couple magazines while listening to the Steelers-Rams game in the background (I find that listening to sports games…except for basketball and soccer…sorry, but I find them boring…always cheers me up. I guess it’s the noise and excitement of the crowd, the comments of the sportscasters…the only thing that would be better would be if 1)I could actually be at the game or 2)I were watching it at home sitting by a nice warm fire).

Anyway, so here we are again, and I don’t have too much to say. I’m just watching some tv, and thinking good thoughts so I can go home tomorrow! I have to be a 7 (I can’t remember what the measurement is called) to leave, and today I was an 11.5 (in terms of radioactivity). Hopefully next time I will be writing you from the comforts of my own “home” at Pete Gross.

Oh, and one last funny comment I forgot to share with you…when Ronnie saw the pictures of Mary and I looking out our “stalls”, he told Laura to remember to “keep her fingers together and her hands flat while feeding me a carrot”….hahahahaha Verrrry funny!

Hope everyone’s doing well. As always, thanks for all that you do to keep me smiling. Love from Seattle