Yesterday was our initial meeting with a nutrition specialist. I honestly didn't go to it with a very high hope and tried to keep an open mind one way or the other. Our meeting with Tinrin (her name) was at her home in a lovely Lafayette neighborhood rather than in her far away office in Berkeley, and she was recommended to us by our dear radiation oncologist. We discovered within minutes seeing the books on her shelves that she is a strong Christian, and she spent a wonderful 2 hours with us, half of the time talking about the Lord in our lives.

To make it even better, she didn't just throw generic diet info at me. She mentioned many familiar things, but she was looking at my most recent medical info, blood and MRI results, and she asked a lot about my daily life and eating habits. All of her recommendations were applied to what I'm already doing. She took into consideration the fact that I have my hands full with company work and full, busy days with the children as well as the type of eating I'm used to. She was clear about the levels of nutrition and vitamin intake I need according to my body's current state so that I can recover most efficiently from the intense radiation treatments I experienced. The next 3-6 months is most important to my full recovery of health and strength and it's great that she gave us mostly easy things to implement in our daily lives.

I did most of my new foods shopping at Trader Joe's today (there is a brand new one about a mile from our house!) and it's proximity makes for a great start to implementing things right away. I'll let you know soon how I feel.

I have another MRI test on Friday the 20th, another radiation doctor meeting the following week, followed by an appt. with a rehabilitative neuro-psychologist shortly after that to determine a baseline for my current memory and speech recall. Once we get through these next few adventures we may change our blog's name to something more family oriented and by God's grace give you only family updates.

Also, please pray for our dear friend John who has major Pancreas problem, possibly cancerous. He was rushed to emergency this morning, and he is scheduled for surgery and a long recovery next week.