Let’s see.  I joined the Fit to Fight program.  It’s an exercise group for Cancer people.  Meets twice a week at the local gym here in town.  I had the initial baseline test yesterday.  They do the sit to stand test.  You stand and sit in a chair as many times as you can in 30 seconds.  Then you do a balance test.  And finally the treadmill test.  Twenty minutes at 2.0-2.5 mph and increase incline to 15 in 5 minutes intervals.  OR until you hit their number 6 on the perceived exertion scale.  I’m happy to say I got to do the full 20 minutes and 15 incline.  I’m not completely out of shape yet!  But I get a membership to the gym for the 2 months the program is active, and I can go as many times as I want during that time in addition to the 2 classes a week.  The classes are broken down into 3 20 minutes sessions.  The first 20 minutes is an instructional period where she will teach us about different health and fitness topics.  Then the next 20 minutes will be resistance training.  Either bands or the machines.  And finally the cardio portion.  So this should be fun. And one of the physical therapists on the team went to UNC in Greeley…graduated in 2011.  So that’s kind of cool.  Lots of people from Colorado around these parts it seems.

Chemo session today.  Seems as though the treatment is working.  The tumor is shrinking and pulling a way from my body.  It is compartmentalizing which is a good thing.  So Cruella ain’t happy.  Tomorrow when I go in for my Neulasta shot I’ll be getting the anti-hormone shot as well.  Since my type of cancer is very hormone receptive this shot is supposed to help block the hormones from helping the cancer thrive. So it’s another step that’s going to totally piss Cruella off and make her never want to come back to visit.  I have one more chemo session in 2 weeks of the hard core stuff, then we go to phase 2!  One phase will be down.  Then 12 weeks weekly of a much more tame drug.  So we shock and bombard the sucker and then when it’s down for the count we just hit her steady for a prolonged amount of time.  The plan then is to take what’s left of her out about 3 weeks after my last chemo.  Right now it’s mastectomy. I’m really okay with that. Not having the option to have her come back far outweighs my need for an ego at this point. So last chemo session is scheduled for July 5th.  Surgery should be around the week of July 25th.  Then I recover and do radiation.  Oh and I guess when you get radiation they give you a tattoo where they need to treat.  So I’ll be getting my very first tattoo because of this.  Of course they will end up taking it with the mastectomy so it won’t be there for long.

Overall they are very happy with how I have responded and reacted to all this treatment.  I think I am.  Of course I expected the worst.  But I’m totally just taking it one day at a time and one treatment at a time.