Jinni is still feeling very few side effects from her chemo treatments, she is convinced that they gave her a placebo last Thursday.  This could change at any time, but for now, everything is peachy like the fuzz on her head.

She went in to get a blood test last Wednesday because we want to keep an eye on her white cell count.  The test showed it has now dropped way down making her more suseptible to infection, so we are getting much more germ aware.  The drop was expected after her first treatment, it just took two doses of the life saving poison to kick it down.

We normally travel to Kentucky the day after Christmas to see our families in Bowling Green (hers) and Hodgenville (mine), but that trip was made a casualty of her cancer treatments and I'm a little blue about that.  I want to give my Mom a big ol' kiss because she has had a hard time lately with her back.

They all understand that this year is a little different, but I don't want it to be different... I really want to go home and see everyone.  We'll get there as soon as we can.

Jinni's final dose of Epirubicin is this coming Thursday.  We are confident she will tolerate this one as well as she has the last two.  Two weeks later she will begin her second of the three prescribed regimens.  The Taxol may not be as kind to her, but we will just have to wait and see and hope for the best.

I want to post a picture of her with her head shaved to show you how good she looks with the change, but our digital camera has been 'misplaced'.  I'll recruit a neighbor for the job over the next day or so because Santa dropped a lot of them around the 'hood and folks are dying to try them out.  Keep checking.

Everyone's support has been humbling.  We'll never be able to fully describe all that has occured so I haven't even tried.  We are indebted so deeply to everyone that we will never be able to repay even the interest on the debt.

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I learned years ago that if you ask for only one thing from Santa, your chances of getting exactly what you want rise exponentially.  Feast your eyes... and get jealous... and get down with me on this one.

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That's right folks, ol' Hoggard knows what big boy toys are all about.  Just read all about it.  The Power Box has it all.

• CD Player - oh yeah, specially designed to keep out the dust I generally generate while fixin' the winders.
• Radio - So I can keep up with WUNC when I want my customers to think I'm ejicated.  Brad Krantz on other days.
• MP3 input - of course.
• 12 Volt adapter for chargin' up the ol' cell phone.
• Twin, as in two, ground fault protected outlets so I can just plug my favorite winder' fixin' tools right into it.
• I've been switching over to Bosch cordless tools lately, and I can plug every battery they make right in the back of this little number - no muss, no fuss.
• Tough? You bet.  Engineered suspension system so I can drop it off the top of a ten foot ladder and the thing won't skip a beat.
• Sound good you ask?  Well, let me put it this-a-way, son Jackson commandeered the thing so he can listen to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon in his room as a compliment to the incense he has taken to burning.

I'm just tellin' you, it's the ultimate in tool-head accessories.  Jealous aren't you?  Of course you are.

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