Let's try again...

Why won't it let me type in anything other than HTML mode? Very weird, well I'll keep checking to make sure it is reading ok, but this is very odd. Unfortuanetly typing in HTML mode doesn't allow me to change the font size so for those of you..Woe what is happening now??????  It just suddenly switched over to compose mode and now its typing regularly. This is really weird. Anyways, before I was so rudely interrupted for the second time now,(1st was yesterday) I have continued to tear at my skin as it is still extremely itchy to the point of me wanting to be hospitalised before i stark raving mad.  It's going to get a little graphic here, a lot graphic actually probably rated R,  my inner thigh on my right leg feels like someone has taken a machete and sliced me down the inside and has left a huge gaping wound that has a massive bruise in it.  However if you look at it there is absolutely nothing there, no bruise, no redness, nothing.  But I can assure you it is there, a pain that is excrutiating to the touch.  Yesterday i accidentially bumped my knuckle against me left hip and bent down because felt like I had nailed my hip on the corner of the counter.  Oh my gosh.  This side effect is the worse by far than anything I have experienced, by far...this coming Sunday I will stop my old medication, the changeover will be done YAY!!!!! I figure you have to allow a few weeks to flush it out of my system which will put me around Christmas so I'm hoping God willing of course that I will have hair and an itch free Christmas.
Oh and here's a laugh...I am doing a book study on the book of Job (pronounced Jobe)from the Bible for each Sunday in November.  For my friends that don't know who Job is, he's a man that had it really rough thousands of years ago and had to endure horrible hardships and harsh pain and he was plagued with boils and intense itching to the point of scratching his skin off.  Well when the course started we got to the point of itching the skin off just as I was going at my ankle and in my head i was chuckling to myself thinking "I hear you on that one buddy."  I think that's the only time I've ever felt like I could actually relate to someone in the Bible.  The thing that I found very interesting is the timing of the study and where I am and what i've been going through health wise and the fact that the book of Job is my favourite book in the Bible.  Anyway I just found God's timing to be, as always, bang on.
So, Monday I am having my MRI, I am expecting it to be clear I haven't had any excitement in ages so i will be expecting a chemo free Christmas.  This is getting easier and easier as each MRI passes:):)  The results will come in on the 20th fortunately I only have to wait 2 days.  They are going to give me Ativan so my nerves are numb because as I'm sure most of you know when you're in an MRI you cant move and I cant be pulled out to itch and because it's a nerve itch I can't focus on anything to sidetrack my mind because it doesn't go away.  I had an awesome tim in October with Alex being down and then I got to see her quickly Nov.9 as she passed through on the way to her friends wedding.
We have been emailing daily which has been awesome.  She has grown into such an awesome young woman.
Please pray that the Ativan works and that the MRI goes fine, thanks guys.
Mel
the pics are from our family photo day that was this past Oct. and the other is the gift Alex made me for my Birthday. The wood is from her new home that she had to go digging for and drill holes in and then she put tea light candles in. I love tea lights. It was by far my favourite gift. Bless her heart. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etW7fS7K8ro