Am I Actually Looking Forward to Chemo? and A Lunch Date Application Process

I'm the luckiest girl in the world!

Not only is my Honey taking me to chemo tomorrow, which is the first in almost 3 months and kinda scary as a result, but my one and only (but favoritest) daddy is joining us, too!!!

Honey and I will just do our thing, which I actually do enjoy, despite the purpose of our visit: joke around with the nurses and other staff members on the floor; look cautiously at other patients in our attempt at making new friends but failing miserably yet again (I've made two so far during treatments but they never keep in touch...I know they're busy kicking some cancer ass too); order sub sammiches from our favorite sub shop which happens to be on campus and delivers within TEN MINUTES I-kid-you-NOT!; I'll fall asleep while Honey either takes a million pictures or plays around on the "Interwebs."

But with my Daddy there, it's gonna be a whooooole different kind of party! I'm not sure how he does it but the last time he took me to chemo, it's like the time there flew by and I just happened to get a wee prick in the arm when I showed up. No big deal. It felt like I was in and out of there in a matter of minutes rather than the three or four hours it probably actually took!

Plus my dad and my Honey have become good pals over the years! It's fun to watch them shoot the breeze as men do. Eventually, though, they'll both end up teasing me about something or other, probably having to do with the tubes I'm connected to or the loopy drugs that I get! They'll build off each others' antics while I smile and giggle and take it all in stride (usually. This all depends on my chemo mood!). Maybe the sooner I fall asleep the better, eh?

The first of the three weekly doses I get in a cycle is usually the hardest on me. And I have no idea how it will effect me after having already been through chemo for a year and then off for the past three months. Plus, I never started this same regimine of chemo drugs from scratch. When I did start it middle of last year, I was already on a different combo of drugs. This will be interesting.

In other news, I am currently accepting applications for potential lunch dates next week. I am available every day except Friday. Requirements are as follows:

• Applicant must be flexible enough to adapt should I have to cancel going out due to post-chemo-lack-of-energy.
• Should the afforementioned occur, applicant must be willing to urge me to permit him or her to come to my house for lunch, in lieu of going out.
• Applicant must currently either live in or visiting Colorado's Front Range at time of application. If you live in Kansas or elsewhere, please apply at a later, more appropriate date.
• Applicant must have his or her own means of transportation. Were I to meet him or her at a restaurant, I will only be driving myself or myself and my dogs.
  
• If the applicant is a certain someone I went to high school with and currently works at Children's Hospital, she must accept my apology for not being able to commit to lunch this coming Wednesday earlier. All other applicants must understand that this particular person has first dibs on lunch with me on Wednesday!
  
• Applicant must have a sense of humor and the ability to recognize that I'm really not this arrogant as to require APPLICATIONS for lunch dates! He or she better laugh at this before 'applying.'

Applications can be emailed to me at: garnet at myhoneyandme dot com. Deadline is...there is no deadline because I hate that word deadline. Take your time! I'll be here.