February of this year I went in for a colonoscopy because of my family history of colon cancer.  My mom died of it when she was 40 and my younger brother has stage 3 colon cancer.  I have been diagnosed with pre-cancer Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP for short) which means an inherited colorectal cancer.  Luckily for me I don't have cancer yet but it can change any time it wants into cancer.  I am going through the Mayo Clinic for my treatment.  I have four more appointments with specialists to make sure that I don't have problem areas in other parts of my body.

I will be meeting with a genetics counselor, a surgeon to remove my colon and have my tubes tied and also having an Upper GI scope this afternoon.  Going to be a busy next few weeks and luckily my "MIL" is sweet enough to come out while I have my surgery to watch the kids.  I have been told already that my surgery will be done laparoscopic and I will heal considerably faster than the other way.  For the most part my support system is good and a few people need to work on their manners.  We'll see how it goes with them.

"N" went to a huge birthday party on Saturday and we spent pretty much all day there either playing on the trampoline and the inflatable slide.  We got home around 8pm that night and the kids still woke up at the butt crack of dawn.  Sunday we spent literally all day at church and so between them they didn't get a nap either day and today "O" wasn't in a very good mood whereas "N" was.

Our new addition to the family (the black persian who adopted us) goes in tomorrow to get fixed.  She has really come around and is really cool.  She's eating more, I need her to gain weight since she's skin and bones, she really lazy but she does kill bugs like there's no tomorrow.  She earned her keep the night we brought her in by killing a huge mosquito.  "O" is still deathly afraid of her, she'll change soon.  I help "O" pet the kitty which "N" has named Tatum.  I was going to name her a persian name but thought it would be hard for the kids to pronounce Farsi words so I asked him to name her.

The kids pretty much leave her alone and she stays downstairs and she has this fascination with sleeping the bathroom sink so I let her do it every now and then.

She has been groomed and now lets me brush her.  I bought two brushes but since she's so tiny that I can't use one but she loves the Zoom brush.

Ok well it's getting time for me to leave and get my test done and then sleep the rest of the day.  They give you the same drugs as I had for my colonoscopy without the prep (drink this, don't eat that) spending the afternoon in the bathroom.  I'll let you know how it goes later.