Back from Sedona

I have been doing so well since my chemo started and I think I believed that it wouldn't slow me down a bit. Well, I'm here to tell you that I am NOT super woman. I really overdid it on Friday running errands, cleaning house, doing a digital workshop for scrapbooking and getting ready for our trip and it took me a day and a half to recover!

I slept most of the way to Flagstaff on Saturday, it was very cloudy, rainy and unseasonably cold... it seemed like a very long trip, I didn't knit or read in the car, and was sound asleep in the hotel room before 8 pm, all of which is very out of character for me. I didn't exactly have a restful night's sleep, I was awake about every 90 minutes, not sure why,,, I wasn't exactly sick, just felt very weird and achy, had this terrible taste in my mouth and couldn't stay asleep, but didn't have enough energy to hold my head up.

We had a picnic of fruit, cheese and pretzels in our bed at 2 am, because until then I didn't feel like eating, things are starting to taste very strange.

I could barely get myself out of bed the next morning... I finally came out of the fog and was sort of back to normal around 10 o'clock Sunday morning.

We drove down to Sedona and had a wonderful day taking in all the breathtaking scenery. We found this charming European Deli and I had Borscht for the first time,(beets are supposed to be really good for cancer patients), it was yummy! We hiked a little, but not as much as I had hoped, Bill is being extremely protective, he wasn't about to let me overdo it again and he was especially concerned about me injuring myself when my immunity is down.

I feel back to normal today, but I will definitely have to learn to pace myself. Hope this wasn't too boring but I'm trying to document as much as I can about this journey. The crazy thing that happened was I lost a contact lens, not sure when or how.. all of a sudden it just wasn't there.

My "Hug" for today is: "Sometimes the future seems bright... and sometimes it doesn't. Yet even when we cannot see the possibilities of tomorrow, God can. Our challenge, then, is to trust an uncertain future to an all-powerful God.

When we trust God, we should trust Him without reservation. We should steel ourselves against the various disappointments of the day, secure in the knowledge that our heavenly Father has a plan for the future that only He can see but that is for our good."

We got home safe and sound... Thank You Lord!!!