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Hi from Newport Cancer Center.

Imagine with me for a minute. We are walking towards the Cancer Center today and plastered on the door as you walk in is a sign that reads something like this:
This building contains chemicals that are known to cause cancer.
So, in essence, the Cancer Center - where people go to hopefully get rid of their cancer - is full of things that cause the disease? In other words, come get your cancer treated but hey if you don't have it yet you have a chance of getting it while you are here! Have a nice day! Irony.........I am still processing that one.

The nicer thing about coming to this particular office is that they have been kind enough to give Gary the room with the bed and TV. It is more comfortable for gary to be flat and it is much more private. The lights are out and we are watching LOVE BEHIND BARS!!

Christian women who marry men on Death Row! I must ask Steph about her brother-in-law who works on death row at San Quentin. Why in the world would anyone want to contact a Death Row Prisioner let alone marry them? There are no conjugal visits on death row you know! I realize there are ministries and people who come along side of these men BUT it makes absolutely NO SENSE how any woman could ever go so far as to fall in love or even marry someone who is going to be killed for a heinous crime they more than likely committed! I can't even begin to get my brain around that one!

Gary's platelets are dropping fairly fast so we will need to come in tomorrow to get them checked. More than likely we will have to come here on Sunday for hydration and possibly a platelet or blood transfusion. Both counts are falling - platelets more rapidly than the red cells but he did just get a blood transfusion this past weekend.

We have been having beautiful weather. Easter is right around the corner and we are finally heading towards Summer! YEAH!!! I love the summertime.

We have baseball again tonight and the boys are looking forward to the weekend. Late nights from baseball make our mornings really difficult and slow. It is really hard for the boys to wake up. Their normal bedtime is 7:30 and they have been going to bed around 9:30. When they get home and they shower and have a snack and unwind and it is just so late. There is no solution for their bedtime so I will have to find another way to help them wake up more quickly. Maybe I should wake them in the morning by pouring ice cold water on their heads and blaring Metallica! Doesn't that sound truly obnoxious? I would never do that to them! They freak when I come in and simply turn the light on!!

Wait. I guess there are women in prison who have committed heinous crimes as well. I have not seen any Death Row Inmates but evidently there are men who want to marry these women as well. Simply weird. Don't they know that THESE women are actually facing the remote possibility of bring released at some point?

So, I guess I will sign off for now and get back to work. I am waiting for many people to call me back who I have called and asked how I can pray for their family. Our friend Rose who used to take Gary to and from radiation needs LOADS and LOADS of prayer from all of us. Don't get me wrong. We all need prayer but I promised Rose that I would make sure people are praying for her daughter, Tyshell. Tyshell is 15 and she recently had an emotional break after being completely fine and has now been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Rose has another teenager as well as 2 small children that she adopted. Rose is in her early 30's and is a single mother. Please just pray for her. She was strong enough to ask for the prayer and now that you know about Rose I empower you to lift her up!

Gotta go. Have a great rest of your day!
Love, L