Dropping by to say HI

Good Saturday morning to everyone.

Nothing new to tell everyone really.  My tumor markers were at 18 this week which was up from 14 but it is normal for them to fluctuate so that isn't worrying me at all.  I will be getting an MRI on the 13th of February and we will go from there.  As for day to day life, everything is good.  I will say that if you see me now you may not know me.  I need to take a new picture to post on here so maybe some of you might know me if you see me.  I have lost around 100 pounds since last year and last week I cut my hair.  It is a very short hair cut.  I had lost a lot of hair and though I had right much on the top of my head there wasn't much you could do to style it.  I was wearing a head band everyday and the hair on my left side of my head you could see thru.  If you are wondering what you could see .... it was new hair.  Even though I am still getting chemo I had a head full of short hair growing and mixed in with all those long scraggly pieces so I went to my wonderful hair stylist, Jenny Wright and she did a GREAT JOB!  There were people at my church on Sunday that thought I was one of the new people that had recently joined the choir ; )  (and these people see me every week).  So if you see me you really may not recognize me.  So while I am on that subject, I will admit that sometimes that is a useful thing - the not being recognized part.  Yes, I am guilty of letting people pass me by that don't recognize me.  SORRY - but I would never do that to any of my blog readers ; )    I had an instance of that yesterday where I didn't speak to someone that I used to know.  Part of that was because the last time I saw that person was before I got sick and they didn't remember me so I knew they wouldn't know me now.  I hope no one thinks this is mean...I really have gone out of my way a couple of times to say Hi and still have been met with and "ok who is that crazy lady" only to have them come back to me in a few minutes and say .... "I didn't know that was you when I saw you a few minutes ago."  Its o.k. with me.  I don't look the same and I am not the same person I was a year ago.  So see it is really a two way street there and a question for me of if the effort is worth the effort.  HUH??? 

Well I have written enough this morning.  I got to get the trash ready for pick up.  And I am feeling the need for a bacon and egg sandwich this morning. 

One other note, I am still doing my read through the Bible and I am really enjoying it.  I am doing it online with the one year Bible blog and it is great.  It is still not to late to start a reading plan.  Go to Bible Gateway.com and pick one out and then you can even return everyday and read the next date's scriptures or go buy a thru the Bible in a year Bible.  These are sectioned off with the date noted for you to read it.  They make those Bibles in a standard Genesis to Revelation version, a chronological version, or the version I am reading which is reading from the OT, NT, Psalm and Proverbs each day.  It makes it very simple for you to pick up and read.  give it a try.  I heard a preacher say yesterday on the radio that we need to READ THE WORD, LEARN THE WORD AND LIVE THE WORD.  Even the devil can quote scripture and he knows what is in the Good Book but He doesn't live it.  DO YOU?  and how can you if you don't read it.  (Ouch...that hurts my toes)

Love you All

Keep Praying and Keep Looking Up!

Tammy