thank you!

i didn't fully appreciate how many loyal readers there are out there until the box of fifty bracelets vanished within hours. :) thankfully, they have sent me another hundred... let me know if there is anyone i missed! based on the statistical tracker, roughly 200 of you visit this blog every day (well, monday through friday, dipping to about 75 on the weekends).

thank you... for following along, for posting comments (i love reading them), and most of all, for caring. while i started this blog for practical reasons in an effort to make communicating easier for me, in some weird way it makes me feel a lot less alone going through something that can seem very isolating. i'm so touched each day when i see comments posted and still find both my email and snail-mail boxes full of messages and cards. i expected that your signs of support would taper off once the initial shock of all this passed. i anticipated that the crowd would clear and i'd be here alone pushing through each treatment with a small circle of family and friends who'd be there with me 'til the end. i can't tell you how much your love and support means to me. thanks for caring enough to check in and read this silly little blog each day. i'm so grateful to have such amazing friends and family who care so much.

also, thanks to those of you who way-too-generously contributed to peter's marathon fund. amazingly, our team is now the top fundraiser and he far exceeded his personal fundraising goal. you guys rock!

tomorrow i'm off to chemo round three. my brother, tim, is my 'lucky' chemo buddy and driver this round... an experience, to say the least. you see a lot in the chemo lounge: a lot of entertaining people, a lot of very sick people, a lot of 'price is right' fans watching (loudly) from their personal TVs. something you won't experience much of there is privacy. i'm thankful to have company with me for each visit. round three feels a little brighter for me knowing now that these crazy drugs are doing their job. bring it on, chemo!