Today's The Penultimate Day

What a weekend we have had in North Carolina! A white Christmas with seven, eight or nine inches of snow blanketed the region. The Rex Cancer Center was closed on Monday because of it, which then delays the fourteen whole brain radiation treatments on my head by one day.

So, today is the eleventh treatment on my brain. I have finished the treatment on my rib and have just one more whole brain treatment left.

Yesterday after my treatment, my team of three radiation technicians, Lynn, Matt and Martha surprised me by saying that they were going to come in on Friday morning - New Year's Eve day, while the Radiation Oncology Center is closed to give me my one last treatment be.

I had been excited about the fact that I would be finished before the end of the 2010, but with Monday's adverse weather closing my last treatment day would now be in January 2011.

My three radiation technicians, Lynn, Martha and Matt surprised me yesterday saying that they were going come in on New Years Day morning, while the center is closed, to give me my last treatment!

I am so touched!

I know for a fact that The Vartan, the radiation machine that I come to know and love over the years, takes a half an hour to boot up and that Matt comes in early every morning to do it. Lynn and Martha are leaving their children on a holiday morning to drive to work just for me.

I feel so blessed, the universe is surely smiling down on me!

Mom is cooking up my special pre-treatment meal, it smell great!