Weeeellll, the first update I gotta do is announce that my crit partner extraodinaire, Edie Ramer has released her first book on Kindle. Cattitude is a wonderful story that well worth checkin’ out.

Here’s a short blurb …

“After Belle the cat switches bodies with a psychic on the run from a murderer, she wants her perfect cat body back instead of this furless human one. But she doesn’t count on falling in love with her former owner. Or that a CEO and a beauty queen want to use up her nine lives. Now is her chance to prove anything a human can do, a cat can do better.”

I’m very excited for Edie and know that this endeavor will be very successful.

Second. I’ve managed to work my way through a problem I was having with my current WIP. I had to have a really (REALLY) good reason for my heroine to hate everything Supernatural. I believe I found it and have even written out the scene. Gotta incorporate it into the actual book and see how it works.

I’m very excited with the recent developments … both with Edie and myself. So I would suggest that you drop everything and head on over to either Amazon or Smashwords (or just go to Edie’s website where she has the links) and pick up Cattitude. Well worth the read.

With luck, this was my last going in on a Friday for treatment. I’ll probably go back to Thursdays … which is fine with me since I’d gotten used to it.

Update — everything is still going pretty good. The fatigue still seems to be fading (although that could be my imagination), but I do have a few rounds of dizziness and a touch of nausea ‘pon occasion (which I counter with hard peppermint candies … works wonders). There are days when the headaches seem worse and days when everything feels pretty good.

One day at a time, folks. Ya gotta take it one day at a time. I’ll be starting my second round of CMF next week. This will be a pretty good indication as to whether the effects are accumulative or if this is it as far as side effects go for me.

Here’s hopin’ it’s the latter.

And remember to repeat after me …“YOU ARE A CANCER WARRIOR”

Hmm. Just realized I didn’t do a Monday WoW blog. (Bad Liz … very bad). Oh well. I’ll get over it.

Anyway.

I wasn’t gonna bitch about this subject quite this soon again, but man … it’s a hot topic with whomever I speak with. Those bloody orange construction barrels. It’s gotten to the point where I start my swearing a block ahead the instant I see one. ‘Cause you know where there’s one, there are more — and more — and more.

I’m all for using the stimulous money in road repair, but did they have to do it all at once? Couldn’t they have stretched it out a bit so that every freakin’ road heading West of where I live isn’t blocked by construction, which of course results in insane traffic snarl ups.

I know that Wisconsin winters make construction difficult, but c’mon. There has got to be some way to schedule this a little more realistically. Don’t know if this is the same all over town, but the Southside is a mess as is parts of the Milwaukee downtown area. And don’t even get me started on the expressways. The language I would use wouldn’t be pretty.

Just completed the second week of the new regime and its going okay so far. I had the full fourteen days of Cytoxan and last week should have been my last week of Meth. and 5FU. I should have two weeks off and then begin the cycle again. This should only be a dosage of the Meth. and 5FU followed by two weeks of taking the Cytoxan orally.

Sigh … always something new to remember. The good news is that I haven’t been feeling ill. Had a little bit of a dizzy spell the other week, and a somewhat tender stomach here and there, but that was averted with a couple of hard peppermint candies. Works wonders.

Today is a nurse visit to see how I’m going. The other good news is that I’m getting this broken foot checked out. With luck I can forego the walking boot. Can you say cumbersome, inconvenient and hot and sweaty? I knew you could. Summer is not the time to be clumping around in a huge boot. Then again, I really cannot think of another time when it would be good.

Not much news beyond that. I should be getting my new tumor markers next week when I go see Dr. D. I really do hope this works. Being on chemo (continuously) for over a year is truly a drag.

And remember to repeat after me …“YOU ARE A CANCER WARRIOR”

I’M GETTING OLD!!!! I actually had to start putting my pills into one of those weekly pill separators. Not my prescription medications … these are the vitamins that I take on a daily basis. I’m finding it’s the best way to remember to take them each day. Otherwise I tend to skip a day here, a day there. You don’t get much benefit from popping vitamins if you don’t take ‘em.

So far, although I’m on several prescription meds, I’ve been able to keep track of them and manage to take them at the time specified and on a regular basis. That’s sorta necessary. So, I guess the mind to be in pretty sound shape.

Even though I consider having to use one of those pill separators is a sign of declining youth, I’m still gonna continue coloring my hair (when I get it back), listening to raunchy rock and roll, watching my weigh and probably acting way too young for my age with the sole intent of being an embarassment to my daughter.