Almost to round 2

Hi everyone- just realized it's been almost 10 days since our last post, oops! Not sure where the time has gone this past week or so.

Mom continues to do well. She's been back at work for a couple shifts to counter the boredom, but more importantly to see her great support group and NBICU family. Dad and I have been busy too and we all are gearing up for the second chemo session. We've been blessed with good health, no sick germs around here! Mom's blood counts were even really high, we think thanks to the neulasta medication.

We were anxiously anticipating the annoying yet inevitable hair loss, and last Thursday the 'shedding' began. For many reasons this is a difficult step of this process, I think largely because mom wasn't feeling like a cancer patient, but now she will have to look more like one, despite feeling fairly normal. She dealt with it well all weekend, and today we headed back to the salon were we had bought the wig and had them cut her hair down to just an inch in length. This way as the remaining hair comes out there won't be as much of it to leave an annoying trail. So starting today mom will be sporting a very cute and trendy synthetic haircut, just like a champ! And under the wig she took advantage of the head-shaving opportunity to boast some Badger spirit and sports a proud 'W' carved in... top that Tay!

The next few days we'll spend preparing for Round #2 and enjoy the possible last day of nice weather before winter really settles in. Thanks gang- I promise to post again later this week!