Well Crystal from our conversations I knew you had surgery coming up to deal with both the floor of mouth tumor and the one around your vocal cords. I'm not too surprised that they wanna go in right away, these dang mouth tumors grow fast. I do hate this for you though, you've been through soooo much.

As for pain, thank goodness for narcotics! However, I've never slept so much in my entire life! Too bad we could get the level of pain relief we need without the sucky side effect of sleepiness.

I was curious when you said you had five punch biopsies, do you know why they needed five? Is it so they can see where the margins are? You may not know and that's fine, I believe when I had mine, they did 2 punch biopsies. One on the edge and one in the middle of my tumor I believe. My tumor filled the holes from my punch biopsies really quickly too. It's odd because you would think it would slow tumor growth but it didn't feel like that was my experience at all.

I'm so hopeful for your surgery to go well and to get back to puppy shopping. I know that's going to be a good month out at least but I absolutely hope for all to go without a hitch and you're back on the road to recovery.

This past weekend was the most I've been active and running around and eating out. For so long we didn't eat out because almost everything tasted terrible. While on morphine I slept so much of the day that there was no energy to go running around, hell I could barely get up and keep up on laundry and household stuff. So I've finally been off morphine and just on oxycodone so that's really led me to an improvement. The improvement was sorely needed because I'm scheduled to be back to work on Monday the 15th. I've already had one extension, my original back to work date was supposed to be March 18th but it was too soon.