A New "Project"

Mom and I are teaming up to lose weight and get in shape. We started today and will be keeping a food journal. I'm trying to go to bed by 10:30 (usual is 12:30) and not snack in the evening. So today I walked for 30 minutes and didn't do too badly on the snacks - a pear and 2 pieces of baklava. I've got to drink more water, though. Maybe we'll keep each other on track. I'm also wanting to get back on the Flylady wagon. It works, so why do I quit? I'm also scaling back Jeni's therapy appointments starting in January and just the though of it is making me in a better mood already ( =

Dad's report

He doesn't have cancer! This is great news and quite unexpected. Why did the biopsy and PET scan show cancer and not the pathology? Now he has gone through a 5 hour surgery, is minus some salivary glands and lymph nodes when it would appear unnecessary?! The doctor is looking into these questions but we will focus on the words NO Cancer. YEAH!

Friday Turkey Day

We had a GREAT Thanksgiving with Dad, Mom, Steve, Armeda and Nathalie Dooley. Great family, friends, food and fun. It was good to be together and have Dad feeling well. It's hard to see him with the bandage on his neck and the right side of his face so unmoving. It's not really the incision that bothers me - it's the other things that make him look like something is wrong. He's never been sick, before. I can count on one hand the times I remember him having just a cold or something. I think this will be a long week, waiting for the pathology report to come back. But, God will provide what we need for the future.