With barely four months to go I am ready to celebrate!  Tonight I forgot to give Sharmi her chemo so when she was brushing her teethI told her I had to go and get it.  She asked, “mommy, when will I be done taking chemo?”  I told her it would be soon.  I reminded her, she had only 5 more doctors visits for medicine.  She added, “then they are going to take out my port out, and I am going to have my birthday party.”  I told her we would certainly have a party.  (To her all parties are birthday parties.)  She also asked,  “Mommy, will I be asleep when they take out my port?”  I told her that she would. She then asked with a worried look on her face, “Mommy, will it hurt?  I don’t want it to hurt.”  I assured her that it wouldn’t hurt and I prayed in my heart that it wouldn’t.  She has had enough hurt in her little life.

So, JUNE 13th 2009 we are going to have a PARTY at the DEL MAR Beach in California.  You are all invited!  I am hoping Melissa can help me with an E-vite so I know who will be able to attend, but for now, just mark it on your calendar.  I can’t believe it has been almost two years.  By her fourth birthday she will have been on chemo more of her live than not.  She is my HERO.  Unless they are told, people would never guess that she is sick.  She is such a trooper.  I am very very proud of her, and I am honored to be her mother!

Cheris