I'm just learning how to navigate this blog, it seems pretty easy but I'm not familiar with blogs so bear with me. My awesome friend Greg set this up for me.

You can also just email me if you don't want to post yourself on the blog. I love getting emails too. I will try to call a lot of you but it does get tiring and takes up a lot of cell phone time. We do not have a land line and are actually contemplating it.

My contact info is
cell 406-581-5900
Bob's cell 406-581-3832
address:
198 Nostalgia Lane
Bozeman, MT 59715

.......I actually have to go to Billings again on Thursday to get a colonoscopy. They found elevated colon cancer markers and need to check things out. My doc doen't really thik I will have any positive results but they need to make sure. I haven't been having any symptoms for colon cancer. They are doing surgery on monday. I'm not typical cancer patient and my oncologist says that is actually good. If they find stuff in my colon, they shouldn't because everything is going to be really cleaned out!, they will have a colorectal surgeon there too. They'll start out small, do a laproscopy and remove the right ovary and tube and the do pathology. If it comes back as ovarian cancer, they'll open me up and take it all. If it turns out to be some other cancer they'll stop after the laproscopy and send me to the right oncologist. He does think it is ovarian cancer but I am such a mystery thet he wants to keep all options open. I asked about getting a second opinion but he said, and I feel the same, we really don't have a diagnosis yet. There is certainly cancer in me somewhere. BLAGH!!

I was extremely tired yesterday when we got home. It's hard to not talk about things in front of Fischer. He will go to Billings with us next week. WE have a house that belings to a friend of Bob's. Thats great cuz its a 5 bedreem house and we can have everybody there. Bob's mom is going to meet us there. I could be there as long a 5 days depending on what they do.

Ziggi will go out to a friend for the week. I have a friend coming up from Coloradofor the surgery and then two more coming a week from today and then Bob's Sister is coming to help out and then.......I'll rest the WHOLE time! They're all gonna help to take care of me and Fischer. I am truly blessed to have duch great friends, including YOU!

I'm scared. Yesterday was rough. I lost it totaly yesterday for the first time since this all started. I think it was cathartic(sp?). My attitude still holds firm that I'll make it through this no matter what. It just somehow sounds a bit surreal to hear the colon cancer words. My Dad died of colon cancer so that may be my issue. My Mom died of pancreatic cancer and for those of you who don't know I'm adopted but somehow that doesn't seem to matter at this point. I just don't want a colostomy (shit bag out of my stomach) and that part scares me. Isn't it amazing how your mind can take you places you don't even need to go? I talked with the admitting nurse yesterday (they did all the pre-op peperwoek and testing yesterday so all I have to do is walk in and get opreated on on Monday.) and seh said that they rarely have to do a colostomy. They just cut out parts and re-plumb. I can handle that.

I"m still gonna need help from everybody here in Montana. Food will be nice when we get back from Billings next week. Big exercises for Ziggi. I will want to go for lots of walks and get running as soon as I can. I also will need to use my ski pass in March! I didn't get a season pass to stop skiing in January! I actually went on Monday! I'll go again on Saturday with Bob and Fischer for Fischer's ski lessons. I'm not skiing anything too difficult. You know the Katie Oster is sick when she has fun skiing the blue and green runs! I just worry about my arms. I went up the Bridger lift on Monday and had a blast skiing through the soft, snowy, steep bumps!!! It kind of hurt my rught arm so I didn't do that again. They were sore yesterday because of it. Oh well...

I'm rambling on now. I'm actually going to send this out to a lot of people.

Love to you all! Katie