Francesca

We spent last weekend in LA. We flew down Saturday afternoon and came back Monday night. We spent most of the weekend hanging out with our friend Kristine from college. It was nice to just relax and catch up. The last time we were down there was the time I got GVHD, it's hard to believe that it's already been a year since that whole incident. We did get to go to Huntington Beach, the Irvine Spectrum, SouthCoast Plaza, 3rd Street Promenade, and the King's Hawaiian Bakery.

Chris and I have decided to add a new member to our family. We have been thinking about it for quite some time now and the right opporunity finally came up. I first fell in love with a Frenchie (French bulldog) when Martha Stewart's show first aired last year. She has a brindle color Frenchie named Francesca who is absolutely adorable. Our little Francesca was born on March 24th and is living in LA right now w/her mom, dad, and five brothers/sisters. We got to visit her twice last weekend when we were down there. We will be driving down to pick her up this coming Saturday. We're both very excited as well as Pebbles, Whitesox, Gizmo, and Suki-chan. I think they will be happy to have a little sister to play with when we're not around. Below are some pictures that I took of Francesca last weekend.

This week is an "off chemo" week for me so I have been feeling pretty well. I still have fevers on non-prednisone days of course. This coming Friday I have an appointment with an infectious disease specialist at Stanford. I haven't seen this particular doctor before, but he works with many oncology patients and comes highly recommended by my oncologist.