Taxol - A Miracle or a Menace?!

Today is the first of Gay's twelve chemo treatments. Her oncologist, the eminent Dr. Doogie Hauser, has decided that the drug Taxol would be the best means of attacking her cancer. Taxol is derived from a plant (latin name.....Zealous Whackacellus) which literally means "attacks all". This stuff will be dripped into her port and will meander through her veins, arteries, corpuscles etc. It will then attempt to attack cancer cells (good) but will also attack weaker cells like hair (not so good). The possibilities are such that Gay might be joining the other follicly challenged member of the Strojny household. She has stated that she will not wear a wig so hats will be the style around here.

Last evening we went to dinner after golf and were totally surprised by a bunch of wonderful Pinewild women who had been working on this "Hug" quilt for over a month. It's so incredibly beautiful and it's a shame you can't read all of the kind thoughts these gals sewed into it. Even your humble correspondent got a little misty with this generous gesture.

As I write this, Gay is over at the Cancer Clinic starting the battle of her life. She is certainly ready for each and every skirmish in this war and we welcome all of your support. Look up "tough" in the dictionary. Gay's picture is there.

Gay's back and looking great. After dinner and a few minutes of berating me for numerous things (which I richly deserve) I realized that things are pretty close to normal around here. She's sleeping now and deserves every minute of rest. Now I'll try to get some too.