Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and we started the month off great with our friends Samantha Perkins and Cindy Lidester.    They arranged a team of friends to walk at the Hendricks County American Cancer Society Walk today.  Our team was named Breast Buddies.  Since my Hemoglobin is still low I tire out quickly when walking and have to rest before continuing so the girls took turns pushing me in a wheelchair.  I decided it was better to not be vain so I could be with my friends.   I did start the walk with the Breast Cancer Survivors.

Note our belief that I am going to be a SURVIVOR!  One of many I know personally and one of more than 2.8 million in the US.  There were several of us "survivors" currently bald and going through Chemo.

Hopefully many of you will be either walking or donating to walkers this month to support Breast Cancer Support and Research.  But even more importantly I hope you will focus on your personal 

breast awareness.  Go to the following link to learn or remind yourself of what you can do to prevent breast cancer.

http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content_Binaries/ENGLISH%20-%20Final1.pdf  (Just copy the link and paste it into your browser.)  

Wow, I am so excited I only have two more Chemo treatments!  This means we are getting very close to being able to head back to Arizona.   Do not get me wrong, we are really sad about leaving our very supportive Indiana friends.  We love them and will miss them.  However we are excited to leave before it gets cold here and get back to all our Arizona friends especially our second mother - Ruth Ann!!!

My last treatment should be Oct 21 so hopefully we will be ready to go early in November. 

So here is what else has been happening the last two weeks:

Nancy Powell is an excellent cook and host.  Homemade Chicken Enchiladas!  We visited her on Sunday Sept 22.  We had fun watching both the Fever and Colts win.  

At my Chemo on the 23rd, I was very pleased to find out that my Hemoglobin was finally slightly up instead of down!   Then it was off for Carol to play Pickleball with our buddies.

On Tuesday after my Neulasta injection, we rode to Greencastle with Deanna Medsker to attend Pat Minnick's Dads funeral viewing.  He was 93 and luckily lived alone until going in for emergency surgery a

few days before his passing.  

Then the bad days began.  The neuropathly really got to me this time. But fortunately it was only a few bad days and our dogs and the cat try to help me!

Cathy Moore and Medy Myers had us over for a cookout later in the week.   We enjoyed the great pork chops, euchre, and key lime pie as well as a fun visit.  

We are being invaded by Stink Bugs!  They are constantly trying to get in our RV.

We throw them out or wrap them in a plastic bag since everyone says we will be sorry if we kill them.  Now we need to find some sticky traps and insecticide.  We don't want to take them to AZ.

Last weekend we had a very fun time on Morse Resovoir at Nancy and Paige's home and on their pontoon.  Carol had a great time riding their waverunner but her chemo brained partner forgot to take her picture.  

Yes, we continue to go through our boxes of old photos.  What a nostalgic task.  One of Carol's favorite old photo of us - I think it was in Hawaii 2001.  As Carol said, look at all that hair!

Between going almost blind sorting old photos Carol also had our girls helping her relax.

Our RV was extra messy when we had to have our kitchen plumbing replaced.   Everything (a lot) under the sink out for a week!  The repair guys also repaired our rear furnace so we won't freeze before getting back to AZ.

Dixie Emler surprised us with a visit one day.  She rode her beautiful BMW over.   We had a good visit and hopefully we will find a time for all three of us to ride our motorcycles somewhere before we leave. 

We did ride our motorcycles to southern Indiana to meet Marti Burcham at the Ceder Grove Tavern for lunch one day this week.   What a fun place.  It is a small tavern attached to a house in a tiny town.  What was the most fun was that they have an old four lane bowling alley.  Remember, Marti and Carol are my buddies that shaved their heads in my support.  

OMG, Connie Kelley had another moving sale this weekend and fortunately she is getting rid of a bunch of stuff.  We are helping a little but not much because of other plans.  We have sold some of our stuff and whatever is left over we are all donating it to someone/anyone!

Our "Friend Ruth Ann" flew to Sacramento yesterday and is staying with Chris Hummer and Janice Monice.   She took our FLAT photo in her carry on and sent us these photos.   Sure fun to join in on the fun!

They are all going to the RVW Convention in Sacramento.  We sure miss being there with everyone but we know they will all have fun and perhaps our FLAT selves can join in .....................