Team DeAnne

I woke up to  glorious spring morning!  I’m thinking of all the great things I have to be thankful for.  Last week’s post-treatment grumbles and aches seem like a long time ago.  I have a bit of energy, and I stayed up late last night watching silly movies and eating Thai food with my sister and another lifelong friend.  I even have the date of my final surgery! 

Thus, I’m starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.  I’m starting to be able to fathom what life might be like, AC, after cancer!

Last week I did’t have much to say.  I was tired, and the daily act of putting on my hair and a happy face six days in a row for the students pooped me out!  I basically ate, taught, and slept.  I did run each day, as of Thursday, and went for a recovery walk on Friday.  But there really wasn’t any spring to my step until yesterday.  I have to wonder if I could truly be that tired, or if I’m just playing the cancer card, being lazy.  But then I notice, after my little 3 mile jaunt, that I’m breathing the way I do after a speed workout.  Then I remember that I’m still held in detention by chemo! 

BUT NOT FOR LONG!!!!   ROAR!!!!!

Even as I continue to get a bt more tired and funny-looking, I catch myself making happy plans for what I’m going to do.  The following is evocative of what’s been going through my mind, as I approach Round 7 of 8, aka mile 22′ish, or speedlap 7 of an early season workout:

Singing with my teacher again, and getting ready for auditions and other fun stuff!

Going to Connecticut to see my brother and sister-in-law, and their new baby!

Researching some modern American composers, to learn their music.

Running a marathon!  (I’m supposed to be running the Avenue of the Giants marathon today, but I had to contact the organization, and tell them I couldn’t make it this time.)

The annual family camping trip this summer!  (Due to my healthy new eating habits, though, no more eating an entire bag of marshmallows!)

Doing some chamber music!

Getting my studio running as a well-ordered entity!

Jenny and my life-long friend Julie, who always are up for a great time and both have a wonderful sense of daring and adventure, have set me straight on my dreams of having a ladies Ultra-light-flying gang.  (We’d call ourselves the “Ultra-valkiries” ).  Julie says it would be safer to start ourselves off with girocopters.  If we got the hang of that, then we should try the ultralights.  Now, I have always taken Julie’s safety advice seriously, because she was, after all, the one who made us some wings out of garbage bags, back in third grade, and then convinced me to go first, jumping off the highest monkey bars, to see if the wings worked.  (I was OK, but the wings didn’t work…)  She’s also the girl who walked across Cotati and Rohnert Park on  stilts, without falling.  ( I went along on my pogo stick.)  Anyhow, we figured we’d start safe with the gyrcopters.  We can get together and work on them in one of our garages.  (None of us are good at tools and assembly, but Jenny’s husband is an engineer…)  20 more days of chemo, and I’m all over that!

I also will do some yardwork!  Hey!  I may even do that today!!!  Before I take a nap in the hammock!!!

Life is full of fun possibilities!  That’s another thing to be thankful of!  Hooray!

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