The Final Frontier

Georgia has received comments here from someone in every state in the United States. She's also received comments from people in countries all over the world, from all seven continents, including two comments from some friendly scientists down in Antarctica. We have enjoyed reading every one of them and plotting them on our maps. But really, once you've conquered the world, what's a girl to do? How about have wonderful friends (Hi Michele! Hi Frank!) who work at NASA that can get you a comment from SPACE?!

Yup. Look what was in our inbox last night:

Dear Georgia:

My friend Michele tells me that you're a big space fan, so I thought you'd like to get an email from the space shuttle Endeavor. Right now we're 200 miles above the south Atlantic, headed for a rendezvous with the International Space Station. The view of Earth is breathtaking. Michele can tell you how to see the photos of the mission online.

Good luck with your chemotherapy.

With my best wishes,

Nicholas Patrick

STS-130 Mission Specialist

To infinity and beyond, indeed! Here's a picture of the whole shuttle crew, with our personal hero there on the far left:

This is his second shuttle mission, and this time, he'll be performing three space walks! Click here for more information about this mission, crew interviews, and training photos - so very cool. Unless we can work out some kind of Back to the Future time travel, I'm not sure we can top this!

Georgia had another long-ish day at the clinic yesterday, mostly because she needed two units of blood. Low hemoglobin counts are pretty par for the course during treatment, so she'll probably be getting more transfusions as we go. It takes about two hours per unit of blood, but she is always energized for several days afterward - giving her more power to fight! She was feeling a little puny yesterday morning, but so far, she seems to be fairly side effect-free after the new medicines, so that's a relief. After a short day today and tomorrow, she'll have three days to rest, and then we start all over again on Tuesday. She's doing so well though, we know she can do it!