Weekly update

Happy Friday and for those celebrating this weekend Happy Valentine’s Day

Just wanted to update everyone on how things are going here. It has been a good week!!!! Nate seems to have settled into school quite easily. After a long day at school he is wiped out and it takes about an hour and a Popsicle to recharge his battery. Luckily his classroom has A/C which is more than I can say for our rental house. It has been a hot week with little breeze- hitting 100- ugh!!! Not that it has stopped Nate from playing hard with friends at recess.
Reese started ballet lessons- I can’t even convey how excited she was. I posted some pictures on the blog. She was the smallest one there but had a ball and seemed to jump right in with no hesitation. Hopefully her feet will grow so she can fit into ballet shoes (she is two sizes too small for the smallest ones made :( ).
As for me despite the heat it was a good health week. I had good energy (maybe it my Chinese herbs?) and so far have managed not to catch the cold going around our house (nothing like week one of school to start the cold season). We are Purell freaks- little Reese goes around the house applying “special lotion” to all. Next Tuesday is my last dose of AC (yippee)!!! I’ll find out more about the next drug regime (i.e. poison) on Tuesday. I think it maybe weekly sessions for 10 weeks which I am a bit nervous about but we’ll see. In the meantime I feel ok and am maintaining a somewhat normal (yet paranoid) life. I wear my scarf collection and the kids are used to seeing me bald at home (oddly they didn’t seem fazed at all). I did goof one day this week and didn’t realize that I left the house without a scarf….it wasn’t until I was inside the school yard that I realized (maybe it was all the kids looking at me strange- like who is the bald chick). Too late to turn back – I did the school drop off sans scarf. I’ll try not to do that again :)
I got some great health news yesterday. The results from the genetics test came back negative- i.e. I do not have the breast cancer mutation gene. What does this mean you ask. It means my chances of getting reoccurrence is the same as anyone else (low) and the chances of getting breast cancer in the other breast is the same as anyone walking down the street (it would have been 50%+ if I was positive for the gene). So if the tumor continues to shrink I can do the lumpectomy surgery and not a double mastectomy. Huge news! Plus a big relief for the rest of the family and for Reese. Now she will only be normal to higher risk (with a paranoid mom and grandmother).
While on the topic of good news we found a new au pair to live with us. Her name is Laura (LAAra), 26, and from Italy. Her English is quite good and her Italian cooking is excellent ;). Yippee- naps for me :)