cranes and poison and a really really good day

Hi everyone again : ) How are things? Blog number two and hopefully I'll keep you entertained ; ). So, I promised to explain the whole "orange crane" thing. Well, like I said orange paper cranes are one of the first things I saw when I arrived here.

The flyer says "join us in our wish for a leukemia free world". It then explains that it is a Japanese tradition that if you fold 1000 paper cranes you are granted one wish. Orange is the color representing leukemia. So I just thought this was really cool. I tried to fold a paper crane last night and FAILED massively. I will try again soon and will post the pic. Something else kind of cool I stumbled on to... www.lls.org a leukemia and lymphoma website is putting on (and they do this annually) a walk called "light the night walk" to fundraise for blood cancer. Here is the link if any of you are interested in finding one in your area: http://www.lightthenight.org/ I know I plan to get better and walk it for sure. 

Positivity goes a long way. I had the best day the other day (well here anyway)! I got a bear with balloons from family friends, a blanket donated to the patients here, there was a woman who came in a sang some Bob Marley with me. You can't go wrong with Bob Marley. A friend stopped by with all kinds of craft supplies. So I fully intend to get some scrapbooking done and finish decorating my bulletin board. (pics to come :D) and then I got to talk to my hubby and daughter. It's really easy to feel lonely and crappy here, but all of that was amazing and gave me a lot of positivity to cling onto. Thank you all so much. Yesterday I got to visit with my husband and daughter. That was awesome! We splurged and had pizza delivered tee hee. So that was fun. The hardest part is when they go, but I didn't cry yesterday so I guess that's an accomplishment : /. 

Anyway...last thing and then I'll leave you be :) The latest news is that I start Chemo today. This afternoon in fact. It will be 7 days straight of one drug, and 3 days of another. I will be here for about a month and hopefully it takes and I can go into remission. The way I understand it, it's like hitting a giant reset button in my body. It wipes out all bone marrow cells, as well as a lot of good so this will be supplemented with blood transfusions and such, and then they let it grow back, test it and hopefully there are no blasts. It all kind of depends on genetics too so I'll keep ya posted. 

Here we go, the fight starts today! Thank you all for reading. Thanks for the support. If you like this feel free to share : ) Take care and we'll talk soon!