Boldly going.......

Where I have not gone in a long while........a return to normal.  Yesterday marked a new milestone, the first day in 20 weeks that, instead of getting chemo,  I am just going to continue to get better.  I was hoping it would be a dramatic change, but, it is proving slow, but steady.

The last 2 nights, I slept without waking up.  I didn't realize how much my sleep was impacted until it actually was different.  Also, food is beginning to taste more normal, although not completely the same.  Finally, I am hoping this cold, which arrive in early November, will finally get better!

Today I am sitting at Mayo getting all sorts of post-chemo tests.  I am really encouraged (read, moved to tears) by the change in my mammogram.  One silly change, since I have lost weight, the mammogram doesn't hurt nearly as much as it did!  Here's the important change:  this is my image from the beginning

The barbell shape is a titanium marker, the mass around it is the tumor.

Here is the image now, taken badly with my phone camera, but, all I can really see, is the end of the marker, near the right edge of this photo, near the middle:

The first photo is a closeup image, so the scale is misleading, but, I am so very encouraged!  There is no white at all around it!  Mark and I talk to my doctor tomorrow to get the whole story.  For now, my load has lifted.  Thank you for all the prayers, support, and words of encouragement.  They worked.