The news out of Philly is anything, but good. I spoke with Shayne this morning during my planning period. Her disease is much worse with increased cancer all over: liver, skull, shoulders, ribs, pelvis, spin, legs- shall I list anymore? Additionally, to the news of the new, multiple areas of disease and increased disease, the dox chemo which was given two days ago has not given her any pain relief as Dr. Maris felt it would.

She is now on a 24 hour morphine drip to try to help with the pain. The other (5+) chemos will begin today. All agree that it’s best she remain in Philadelphia even though she wants to come home and go to school.

Shayla and I will join them after school on Friday. I appreciate offers of help with her; however, we've decided from this point on it's probably best to keep her as close to the situation as we are so that she'll maybe be able to understand this later on. (I don't think I'll ever understand.) Thankfully, it’s Labor Day weekend and we can have some of Monday together too before we have to return home to get to school on Tuesday morning. I saw my paycheck today and learned that I am negative two and a half sick days. Ugh! This just doesn’t get any easier!