If you’re fairly new to the Blogosphere, then allow me to tell you about the trend of daily themed posts. Daisy the Curly Cat’s blog in particular is a good example of one that uses these daily themes. Every week, Daisy posts Sunday Comics where she puts pictures of herself in a cartooned background every Sunday. She also has Monday’s Mystery, Wordless Wednesday and Fashion Friday. Some of these daily themes Daisy made up for her own blog, others are standards across the Blogosphere. One of these standard themes is known as Thursday Thirteen where a blogger can list thirteen things about anything they choose, in no particular order. Rasmenia almost always has intriguing Thursday Thirteen posts.

Now that you know about Thursday Thirteen, I shall proceed to post one today…

Thirteen Things I’m Looking Forward to on Friday

1. Not having to get up at 6am to fight traffic en route to the hospital for an 8:00 appointment that the doctor will be a half hour late for anyway (my appointment’s at 10:30 this time!).
2. Getting to spend the whole day with my Honey by my side.
3. Seeing the blurry gray pictures of my insides on a computer screen.
4. Listening to the doctor try to explain the “obvious” differences between five different shades of gray of my insides!
5. Celebrating the drastically shrinking measurements of the tumors on my liver!
6. Applying a pound of lidocaine to my port site so I don’t feel as much of the pain of the prick of the needle as they access it for CAKE.
7. Feeling like a BORG while the chemo drug bags are changed every hour or so throughout the day.
8. Making a zillion trips to the bathroom. This is no easy task, believe me. It requires waking up, searching for my shoes, putting them on, unplugging the chemo pump machine, dragging the machine and bar from which the bag hangs from behind me back and forth…it’s very complicated.
9. Listening to the pump as it fills my veins with poison for 6 hours straight. Some pumps are noisier than others - it’s the luck of the draw which pump I end up with each time.
10. The super nice awesome nurses that wait on me hand and foot all day long.
11. Saltine crackers in those little dual packets like you get at restaurants when you order soup du jour.
12. Free wireless internet access which Honey and I both access side by side on one of those rolly hospital tables. But for some reason I can’t send outgoing emails through my Outlook nor can I access my chat programs. Which is lame.
13. Beginning another two-week-long war of destroying these cancer cells inside my body!