Last October

About this time last year we were enjoying our trip thru the Smokey Mountains. Last Sunday we left for Philadelphia and on Monday drove thru part of the Pocono Mountains. It was beautiful with the red, orange, yellow and green trees. We visited a jobsite in Philly and returned home Monday. We then went to Detroit on Thursday only to hurry back as my mother ended up in the hospital with a severe sinus infection. Good thing I got back later as my sister Sherry had to put up with the unpleasantness that my mother had to go thru when she first arrived at the hospital. (vomiting) They admitted her and Patti got her today when she was running her mother over to Southwest for some blood tests.

We got some bad news today. My great aunt Kate died on the 7th. She was 97. She would have been 98 on January 1st. She spent a few years here with my grandma before my grandmother died, a little over two years ago, also at the age of 97 also. Now there is only one left, Molly. I believe Molly is either 95 or 96. Kate was my aunt who had a bout with melanoma when she was 60. Hopefully God will give me the 37+ years he gave Kate after her bout with melanoma. The Zwick side of the family that they come from we have traced back as the cancer part of the family. Their sister Laura died of cancer. Their father, Henry died of cancer and his mother, Barbara died of cancer also. I also believe their brother Gus died of cancer also. On the other side of the family, only my great grandma Moore died of brain cancer at 85.

I will be visiting the dermatologist next Tuesday. I am going to have him look at the three growths that have popped up on my right leg. They feel like lypomas, but I want to get his opinion. If he thinks I should get them checked, I will have a thermography done on my legs. I am not real worried about them and I really do not want to keep getting cut up every time a bump pops up on me. Pray for this for me. I am also noticing now the effects of loosing so much tissue in the area where the cancer was. My right side of my chest gets very cold when the temps drop below about 60. This is also the area that doesn't sweat right now. Hopefully the tissue will continue to fill in and I will not be so cold. Pray for me on this also.