Recovering

So I never knew how dependent I was on food for comfort, until now. I even eat things that should taste wonderful - even though they don't now - just because I so desperately want them too. This should be a very important lesson and hopefully I learn something important from it, but right now I just want food to taste good!! I think that it is getting just a little bit better today. I managed to eat my first raw vegetables and even a little cheese. When I am finally able to eat fruit, I will know that I have arrived. Right now all fruit tastes like I just brushed my teeth and my tongue burns like it was recently scraped with sandpaper. If I'm lucky, I can spend all of next week stuffing myself full of salad and every imaginable fruit to make up for all of the nutritional insufficiency of the past two weeks. Somehow, eggs, potatoes and oatmeal just don't cover all of the necessary food groups.

Regardless of the eating difficulties, I do feel like my energy is returning (I even ran a little on the treadmill yesterday! hooray!). Unfortunately, given the increase in hot flashes my sleeping is not so good (it's always something - you know?!??). And thankfully, by Thursday we were able to send Dryden back to school (the picture is of him in a much less healthy state... poor guy!) and I got to join him for lunch and book fare shopping. It is so interesting to see them in "their" environment. I imagine Dryden one certain way but then to see him in his own element - where I don't really exist, he wasn't quite what I had expected. In fact, next to the kids that we were lunching with, he was the quiet one! Praise the Lord that no one else seems to have gotten what he had. (which seems almost impossible given the way he was coughing all over everything!)

Now I am getting ready for a much anticipated weekend with some of my oldest and dearest girlfriends from Lancaster. yahoo! It is wonderful to get to spend time with people who know you as well as they do and yet still love you... ha ha. Thank you to everyone who pitched in to take care of their 11 kiddos! (most likely that means you, Matt, Dave and Keith! my kids love "Dad rules" weekend... movies, Wii, pizza and late bedtimes... enjoy!!) We will likely eat (well, at least they will...), talk, cry (it's inevitable... I have cancer!) and shop (there's nothing like retail therapy! and, we can support breast cancer research at the same time at the Prime Outlets in Grove City... you know me, always multi-tasking! although, I'm trying to quit because I've read that it really isn't good for you...). Should produce some good pictures... and a much needed break from a rough post-treatment time. I love you girls!