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17 January, 2008

updated

I have disappeared for over a month. Oops! Recap.

I got my cast off! December 4th was such a wonderful day. My poor little leg was so sad looking. No muscles at all. And still no walking.

Had a birthday. It was wonderful. Justin did all the planning and he took me out to eat at DC Coast and then we went to a play at the Kennedy Center. Justin...and the Kennedy Center. I was amazed and ever more amazed that he came up with that all on his own!

And the next day, Justin's parents took us out to Tony and Joe's Sunday brunch. Boy do I love that place. MMMMM, all you can eat fresh seafood. I don't think I have a limit for oysters on the half shell.

We went to my mom's house for Christmas. We went down that Friday night and came back on Christmas day. It was totally the Christmas of parties. Mom had us going to some sort of event every single day. It was sad how much I ate and drank. I got a bit depressed because I wasn't able to work out at all and my clothes really started to get tight.

So when we came back, I got on the bike for the first time and started riding. It hurt like hell, but now I am totally fine. I can bend my knee past 90 degrees. I got rid of the crutches around Christmas. I still am in the metal hinged immobilizer, but that is much better than the cast!

Went up to Baltimore for New Year's. Went to a carnival/circus themed party. It was a blast! I went as a lion tamer and Justin went as a lion. I even got to carry a whip. woohoo! It was fun and affordable, always nice.

Then on the 3rd of January we got some pretty bad news. My sister in law, Becky, who lives in Blacksburg with my brother Will and just had the new baby found out she has advance thyroid cancer. She went into surgery that day and they found a pretty big tumor and the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes. So Justin and I drove down to Blacksburg the next day and spent the weekend at their house babysitting my neice and nephew at night so Will could stay at the hospital with Becky and then we went to the hospital during the day so Will could watch the kids at home. Long Long Long weekend....but they released her from the hospital late that Sunday night. They took out her entire thyroid. Sheesh. and she now has about a 7-inch scar, like a necklace, around her neck to her collarbones. Since then we have found out that she has 2 different types of thyroid cancer, which makes treatment a bit harder. She will take radioactive iodine injections to treat the cancer. She started medication right away but is feeling REALLY tired, especially in the afternoons. And with the radioactive iodine, she has to be by herself for 4-7 days after injections. How boring being stuck by yourself, sick and dealing with cancer! I just don't understand how you can give birth to a healthy baby 3 months ago and the whole time have cancer spreading throughout your body. She has a decent prognosis. It is around 80% survival rate for 10 years. They don't have much data after 10 years. Like my brother said...I don't know about you, but I think 80% sucks. 2 out of 10 die in 10 years...or 1 our of 5. Those aren't that fabulous of statistics.

So we have all been dealing with that. She is pretty optimistic. The immediate problem is that she is the breadwinner for the family. They own their own Vet clinic and she is the vet. So money will be an issue.

My knee-I went back to the doctor last week. It hasn't really healed that great. It is still really loose. He told me I probably will never run again. Frustrating. But he cleared me to get in the pool, so i've been swimming every day since then. Need to lose some of those surgery pounds!

And I think that is about it for the past month and a half.

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