Taking care of business... every day!

Hello,
Well it's been good and tiring and fast and slow lately. Since I wrote to you I spent two glorious weeks on Lake Michigan with Annie, Hannah, Nathan and my folks. Al, Abi, AJ, Kaitlyn and Joanne & Dave were there for the second week and we really enjoyed ourselves in the water, sun, shade, jeeping in the dunes, riding bikes, playing lots of games of Sequence and Dutch Blitz. :-)
We ate well and rested and walked. It was good and mostly slow for those two weeks.
Then we came home. I'm back to work, and very very close to finished with the Master's program I've been working on all year. And I started radiation treatments. This Wednesday, the 17th, was my first one. I will have 25 treatments total, every week day until done, which should be about Sept. 21st. It really only takes about 5 minutes, once I'm in the room, laying down with my hands above my head. A big machine that looks like an x-ray machine moves around my torso and buzzes and bings.  All the nurses leave the room, of course, so this feels a little different than chemo treatments did. Chemo was almost social, I had family/friends with me every time I went in for chemo, and you just sit there for about 3 hours, so you talk and share and get encouraged. Radiation is lonely, as I told my mom in a phone text the other day. She correctly reminded me that God/Jesus is always with me so I am not alone in that room.
Today on my way home in the car I listened to a song on the car stereo that lasted about 5 minutes, the same time I am alone in the radiation room. The song was called Taking Care of Business by BTO. I smiled through the whole song because my mom hated that song when it came out in the late 70's! Today it was perfect. Every day I will go to radiation treatments and take care of business, for 5 minutes and then move on with the rest of life. :-)
I have a couple of prayer requests for you. I seem to be experiencing a small case of Lymphedema, a swelling of my right arm due to the 13 lymph nodes being removed. My oncologist immediately sent me to a physical therapist who specializes in lymphedema and Ellen has been great! I have some exercises to do that help my lymph system drain better and the swelling is almost gone. I will see Ellen once a week, specially during radiation as radiation often causes lymphedema.
I am also experiencing an extension of the nerve damage caused by the last chemo drug Taxotere. I still have tingling toes and the soles of my feet, as well as my forearms, fingers and even my cheeks. It's not painful, but weird and just unsettling at times. It should eventually go away, everyone is different so there is no set time table to tell me when.
Radiation will be easy for the first two weeks or so, then I will (maybe) start to feel kinda sunburned in the treatment area. I have a special lotion for this, and hopefully my skin will handle the treatments well.
Again I can't thank you all enough. It is humbling and a blessing to know that you are praying for me!
Thank you for Taking Care of Business- Every Day!  :-)