YOU GOTTA HAVE FRIENDS!

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THIS PAST WEEK was a great treat for me with friends and family.  I guess you could call it the "perfect storm" of spending quality time with several of my gracious friends several days in a row.  I enjoyed catching up with my dear friend, Marla, at lunch over a Wendy's Apple Chicken salad...awesome pomegranate dressing, BTW!  That same evening I was blessed with a surprise lasagna from Janis, another dear friend of many years, which came at just the right time as I started some home physical therapy that afternoon.  Friday found me wig shopping for my first time with Bev, another fun great friend of many years.  That was comical and interesting with my own thick hair still present.  I named the Asian wig shop owner the "Wig Nazi" (if you're familiar with the old Seinfeld episode of the "Soup Nazi"...you'll understand the analogy).  It was fun, but I'm leaning more and more to my son Tyler's opinion that I should just have fun with it and don a different style every other day...or better yet, skip the wig all together!  We ended that night with a spur-of-the-moment ticket to a local civic theater performance of "Steel Magnolias" joined by our men folk.

SATURDAY I was pampered beyond what I'm used to by my classmate and new dear friend, Nicole, who treated me and another friend, Amanda, to pedicures, which my poor abused feet sure needed.  I've been lucky to get my toenails clipped lately so my feet were in heaven.  Why don't we microwave hot towels at home more often and wrap them around ourselves?  That is one of the greatest feelings in the world and so simple!  It was good to catch up with Nicole on what I'm missing in the radiography school realm these days.  Its amazing how being out of it for just three months makes it sound so foreign.  Amanda, a young cancer survivor herself, was encouraging to talk with and get advice on chemo.
Saturday night, my sister and brother-in-law invited us to where they were camping about an hour away for grilled hamburgers with all the fixins.  They provided everything, we just showed up and enjoyed sitting by the campfire sharing stories and laughing.  By Sunday with full day of church, I was one tired puppy, but it was a good tired and I enjoyed every minute and was so very thankful for the love and care of each one.

NOBODY in their right mind wants to go through breast cancer or other similar physical trials.  But it sure does make you feel loved and even fortunate when God wraps his arms around you through the kind hearts of your friends and family members as in a week like this one.