Counting the Days Again

I had a call this morning from the chemo nurse - I had bloods taken yesterday for my Herceptin tomorrow - and they are going to start my chemotherapy tomorrow!! I am so excited. I was impatient to get started on it and now its happening faster than I expected. So mad frantic phone calls to my friend who will be taking me - the same angel who was with me all the way last year bless her - work are now ready and geared up and friends are being told too. All systems go. And it knows it. I have pain in my side today. I am feeling totally fine, happy to be starting on it. I also found something else out today, the drug I am going to be having is called Docetaxol - and it was originally derived from Yew tree leaves. So this hippy chick who hugs trees and would love to live among them is being helped by the trees as well. There is something very special about that to me. I am holding my head up, looking at the cancer straight in the eye and saying to it... watch out. This chick is ready for battle.