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Here is the latest on all that is tennis, work, coaching, egg harvesting, chemo and radiation:

1. TENNIS

I am playing again. It’s not stellar, but it does feel good to run around. My first outing was a slow hit off the ball machine at Central Park Tennis Club. The second time I ramped it up a bit. Then I played some mixed, and tomorrow (Sat) I am playing for my 4.5 team.

2. WORK

I am at work full time through April 27th. It has been good to see my coworkers and the kiddos, and they know that it is only temporary. I feel bad not being able to see them to the end of their 1st or 2nd year of Spanish, but this is one time I need to focus on myself. I hope to be back for the last day and the staff party…it’s a short-term goal.

3. COACHING

Eastlake High School girls’ tennis is in full swing (har-har) now. The weather still kinda sucks, but I am having so much fun being back with my girls. I am pretty tired by the time school is done (2:10) and I always think I am going to be dragging ass at tennis. BUT I get there and start drilling or even just talking with the girls and I just feel great! Thursday’s practice was literally a laugh-a-minute. With a lot of school districts on spring break, the drive home down the 90 has been a breeze.

4. EGG HARVESTING

“Go on the pill.” or is it, “Go off the pill.”? It’s “off” for now. Monday I go in for blood tests and a sonogram. The blood tests are checking to see what my “natural” hormones are doing (er…nothing?) and the sonogram is to locate the existence of my ovaries. Soon I will be put on a fertility drug to ramp up egg production and we are off to the races. Scott has his day of glory on Thursday. They will be checking the quality and quantity of his “special sauce” and he will be taking the Acrosome Reaction test.

5. CHEMO and RADIATION

I received a phone call yesterday from Dr. Everett’s office and it appears as if I am going to begin adjuvant therapy on May 7th. This will entail 5 days a week of radiation with once weekly Cisplatin push. I am currently looking into yoga and acupuncture as some ways to cope with any possible side-effects that might make “normal” life hell. I figure it couldn’t hurt, or at least hurt any worse than it might already, and if anyone has suggestions, I am listening.

VS

What is Easter? To some it is a day to celebrate “the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox.” For others, like those from South Park, it is all about the Hare Club for Men. For most though, it is about all-you-can-eat Easter brunch buffets, baskets filled with fake grass, plastic eggs filled with jelly beans, Peeps, chocolate bunnies and Paas-dyed eggs. Speaking of eggs, as I wait for May 7th to arrive (probable start of adjuvant therapy), I am at the beginning of the Beth-and-Scott-egg-harvesting show. Dr. Letterie, of Northwest Center for Reproductive Sciences, is taking charge of my pituitary gland an my ovarian function. There is A LOT involved, mainly drug-related, but we are hopeful to get a lot of follicles to produce some Grade A eggs out of my already abused abdomen. Scott also needs to preform his own show to see if his “men” are “up” to the challenge. The final outcome should be some embryos to put on ice, in storage somewhere, waiting for a future “host” uterus.

I would also like to give a “shout-out” to those celebrating Passover. Gut Yontof!