Last night I went to my first Fit to Fight class.  It meets 2 days a week and is for cancer patients and survivors.  Met a wonderful group of people.  There are about 15 of us.  All different types and stages of cancer. I came out feeling pretty lucky.  I mean don’t get me wrong all cancer sucks.  But I could have it so much worse than I do.  So for that I am truly grateful.

Everyone seems very nice.  There are two gentlemen in the group (brothers) and of course where are they from?  Philly!  They left like 46 years ago, but still have the accent.  It was nice to talk to someone who sounds like “home.”  So it’s the little things.  But there is also a mother/daughter in the group as well.  Seems most people have some family history.  So for that my diagnosis is a bit odd.  But nothing to do about that at this point.

The first session we did a getting to know you ordeal.  Took a tour of the facility and just kinda got our feet wet.  Every session we will focus on a new type of exercise for 20 minutes.  Then do 20 minutes of strength on the machines and the last 20 minutes of some sort of cardio. I think it’s going to be a really good thing.  It’s very interesting to hear the journey of some of the others in the group and what they have gone through and are going though.

On the health side of the world, I’m doing okay.  I really try to pace myself.  The chemo is starting to really ware on me.  Where as I had all kinds of energy a week after treatment, now I am just kind of wore out a lot with bursts of normalcy.  Still trying to keep everything from ruling me.  Which is getting a bet easier for the most part.  I just hate not being able to go full force like I’m used to.  So it takes me a bit longer to get things done around the house and in general.  On the up side I only have one more treatment of the A/C and then I go to a “normal” chemo.  I’m hoping that won’t take as much out of me.  So we’ll see.

We moved into the house.  I don’t have a kitchen yet, but the bedroom is pretty much set up and I have the kitchen table up against the wall as a work space.  We do have the grill and the camping stove set up in the garage along with the old refrigerator.  So it’s kinda like camping….It’s going to make me appreciate my new kitchen all the more once it’s in in the next few weeks.  If all goes well I should have a kitchen by the end of April.  (hopefully sooner).  But in the meantime, I pick a box and unpack as much as I can.  We still have to finish painting. So we just do a little bit at a time.  Luckily we have no deadline or time frame to have every thing complete.  Although I would like to have everything done in the house by the time I have surgery.  That would be ideal.

It is nice to have a little more space.  And at this time I have at least one of my desks up in my craft room so I can actually sit at a desk and do weird things like pay bills.  Oh and taxes…there’s a story for you….yay identity theft!  But I’ll save that one for another day.  I do have to try to get those done this weekend.  At least I know all our stuff is in one place now!!

Yesterday and today we are getting the radon mitigation system put in.  It will be finished today.  So now the house is radon free. Which is a good thing because Lord knows I don’t want to end up with Lung cancer after all this!  Basically they run a pipe from under your foundation and have it go out the roof.  There is a fan that pulls the radon gas out so it’s not seeping into the living space any more.  Being in the mountains it’s kind of a thing.  But it is a thing no longer for us!  Whoo hoo!

Last thing I want to say today is how grateful I am for all my family and friends.  I mean everyone has been so wonderfully supportive of both me and Pete through this so far.  And I just wanted to shout out to everyone and let you know how much you are appreciated!  Every bit of positive vibrations count!