Mom had a really good night despite the lovely diarrhea from the antibiotics. Mom and Aunt Helen neither slept at all last night. She did however manage to take two laps around the floor (in the middle of the night) and she ate cornbread and milk around 2:30 this morning. She is great spirits despite the sleep deprivation. She is gearing up for tomorrow. She will have Vincrisitine and Dexamethasome. The doctor just visited with mom and he said neither of those should make her sick.

I am happy to report mom had her first blooper incident...in order to take a shower she has to have a covering for her picc line. Well she took it upon herself to cover the picc line (she was given the covering last week and was shown how to put it on) so she assumed that it was alright for her to do it. Well she gets in the shower and it gets water in it. We immediately called for Cathy, her nurse who we just love, and she came running in and jerked mom out of the shower. She had to redo the entire dressing on the picc line to prevent infection. This freaked me and mom out and you can bet that we will be asking a nurse to help apply the covering from here on out!! Mom kept apologizing over and over. We both felt really bad.

I left around 1:30pm. When I left she was up talking and laughing. It was so nice to see her smiling. She has also lost 20 pounds of weight/fluid. So far this is not bothering mom in the least:) She keeps saying, " Nat by the time this is over me and you will look like twins" and I quickly told her that I consider myself lucky if we looked like twins. She is such a beautiful person inside and out. Dad told me that she was able to eat her first warm lunch today. Praise God. We are so thankful. Tonight mom and dad ordered pizza from Every body's Pizza (its supposedly this best around) and they had a "date" in the room. So sweet! After their dinner dad headed home and left mom for the first time ALONE! She was thrilled to have a night alone and to be able to rest. We all were very worried about leaving her by herself but I could tell by looking at her she needed some alone time. It was so great to see her looking and feeling great. We cannot thank you all enough for your prayers and encouraging words. We are so blessed to have each and every one of you in our lives.

Continue to pray for mom and her strength. We know we still have a very long road ahead but God has already shown us he is in total control over Mom and her illness. She has had two great days in a row and we give God all the praise. Love you all and will update you all on mom's progress tomorrow.