Lots of Thanks for this Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving. 

This year I am thankful for a world full of loving, supportive people. I am thankful for my family and the amount of driving back and forth, weird requests and unconditional love they provide. I am thankful for the level of crankiness they can withstand. I am thankful for all my friends and how I always knew they were awesome people, but know I can give concrete examples to the world that they are the best ever. I am thankful for their continued support of my twisted sense of humor. I have corkboards on my wall and when this adventure began started filling them up. Well, I had to double them in size and they are covered in well wishes.  I am thankful for all the new people that Cancer has brought into my life. Although I wish that none of us had this shared journey it is comforting to know that they have made it though and are routing for me.

I am thankful for modern medicine and early detection methods. I am thankful for clean PET scans and false MRI reports. I am thankful that 3 Chemo infusions are done, and I am mostly through 3 nuelasta shots (in case the above ramblings did not make clear, feeling a little fuzzy this am). I am thankful I am healed (with scars) from surgery and that if all else goes well about 12 weeks away from being done with the Triple Crown.

Today I am thankful for my mom's mashed potatoes. I already had to ask her not to let me attempt to eat all 5 lbs of them. Despite recent taste changes, they still will taste delicious.