The picture tonight is me with a close group at the reunion. Actually none of these girls were at Itazuke when I was, but I’ve grown so close to them at the reunions! It feels like we were all there together. I am grateful for the reunions to give us the opportunity to ‘extend’ our stay at Itazuke! When we were kids our dads could sometimes extend our stays, but now WE get to do the extending by going to the reunions and sometimes even getting together between reunions. Beside me is the Dana who has faithfully held my hand through this breast cancer journey; you’ve seen many posts from her. In the middle is Terri, my ‘baby sister’; we adopted each other through the reunions and we’re nearly joined at the hip when it boils right down to just about everything. In the bright yellow is Marti, who blew us all away at the reunion. She sang and she can really belt it out. She has not only an awesome voice, but she is a true entertainer. I wish I were connected; she’d be the next American idol. She’s the current Itazuke Idol for sure. I fully expect she will be the entertainment at the next reunion! On the far right is Debbie, who is Dana’s sister. We all have so much fun together. This is not all of us, but this is a bunch we could get together, standing still for a moment. I thank God for these and all our friends.

Today I’m still unpacking and putting things in their place. It seems to take forever to get put back together after we travel. I’m running behind on exercises; so I’ve got to run finish those right quick. We’re amazed at how cool it got while we were gone. We don’t have to get up at dark to walk, now! In fact I slept until 9 this morning. That’s 7 Vegas time; I guess I haven’t adjusted to the time change, yet. I haven’t been so tired today as I was yesterday, though, so I’m going in the right direction.

I thank God that Dorothy and David are doing very well and both are getting stronger and stronger. Dorothy doesn’t even have to wear her splint on her arm, now. She’s doing physical therapy and getting stronger all the time.

My lymphedema did very well while we were gone. We measured my arm when we got home and it was smaller than when we left. That’s really good with all the time we were on the road. The exercises help, so I’d better get off and go get them done. Thank you, God for giving me a plan for recovery and for watching over us as we traveled.