3 chemo treatments down - 9 to go

Off we went to Sletten, I was feeling a little tired but knowing that this will be my routine for awhile I am able to make the 15 min. drive to be poked and prodded.
I thought that I looked fairly cute in my cute capris and tank top and little sweater with cute little brown shoes with a brown bow on them. My wig looked exceptionally attractive as I styled it differently and my earrings were to die for...No vanity here but it does keep trying to make a reappearance.
ANYWAY, Mark and I are sitting in the waiting room and I am reading yet another cancer survivor magazine and I cross my legs and uncross them which is what I do when I am trying to wait patiently. All of a sudden all of the lights go out and the city of Great Falls is in a black out.
I get called to the back where there is a generator I am thinking because there were lights back there.  Sue put me in a room to wait for nurse to access my port.  I am all alone and I look down at my feet and I notice...Hey, I thought I had brown shoes on with a bow....I put my right foot out and sure enough there was the brown shoe with a bow on it....bring my left leg out and ....THIS IS A BLACK SHOE!  No bow and it has a little heel, my brown is flat!  Did I not notice that I walked funny?  Mark said that he noticed it in the waiting room but did not want to say anything to me.  I busted out a huge GUFFAW of laughter and brought a few nurses in to find out what sort of spell had come over me!  Everybody rolling around on floor with laughter :)  So next is Dr. M's office where he has to check me in the dark with the door open and he has a  med student with him.  He checks the usual stuff but this time he has me pull my feet out so he can check for edema on my ankles....yep, you guessed it...he kept looking at my feet. He even got down a little closer because I  think that he thought his eyes were playing tricks on him because of the dark.  More laughter...He said, "they don't even LOOK kind of alike...chemo brain". Too funny. Off to chem I go.
Chemo was very uneventful.  My faithful Mark was there and we visited for awhile before I dozed off.  Then I woke up and we talked some more.  We are so grateful to have one another for this incredibly difficult journey that has been so blessed with peace and grace.  Not only do we look different but we truly feel different than we did when we were married almost 29 years ago.
There were so many really rough roads for us and we just kept hanging on to one another hoping that it would get better.  Hope and Faith are God's crowbars.
Hope and Faith will get us through this because God knows that we are trusting Him and Him alone.
Have a great nights sleep flashlights and firefly.  I love you all.