Duck, Duck, GOOSE!

What a few days it has been....

I packed up a bunch of stuff, anticipating a fun weekend at Duck. A lil' hurricane at the beach house is always good for the soul. (A little one, not a monster storm, okay???) Packed up the essentials: fat-free hazelnut coffee creamer, flip-flops, some board games, and a couple of bottles of wine. My cousin Elizabeth was coming in from Arkansas with her two munchkins, I was picking up sister Donna in Virginia Beach, and Dad was coming in from San Antonio. We had everything we needed to hunker down for a good storm. It was all good.

Until we arrived at the house and I sent everyone else on to get some dinner--I was hurting in my belly and wanted to just lay down. Around 10 pm, it was too much, so I had Donna take me to the Emergency Room. (Note to self, avoid Friday nights at the ER...)

9 hours and one CT scan later, I am informed I have a mass on my ovary and there is concern for cancer.

Spoke with my doctor on Saturday and we developed a plan. I'll be seeing a GYN oncologist this week and I'll keep you posted. I'm not one to worry until I have been given something to worry about. So, I am not in denial, I just haven't been handed a plate of trouble, yet. In the meantime, I am researching and thinking and praying.

The rest of the weekend went by so quickly--it was so great to see Liz and her children! She and her husband have done such a great job with them--they are so smart and well behaved and funny and a joy to be around!

Hurricane Hanna was (thankfully!) a dud on the Outer Banks. We saw a sign at one of the hotels that read "Hanna, go to Montana!" Loved that! She did push water up in the Currituck Sound--here is Dad with the Sound (bay) in the background...the water line is usually well beyond that stand of bushes--you can see one of the piers is almost underwater. But, the high water was about the only issue I saw there.

On Sunday morning, we drove down to the Nags Head Pier and had breakfast--and the surf was up, just a bit.

Now back home, just chillaxin' with the pussycats!

I'll keep you posted on what happens--hopefully, this is a very short journey and I can get back to my regularly scheduled life!