"Tanisha, I’m not going to travel to Chicago again this month. Even if I started to feel better it wouldn’t be smart to immediately do something again that I know is likely to undo any recovery.  I’ve put aside my own concerns for the last two trips, and am not sorry that I went, but now I need to be at home.  I know you were hoping I would go and I am sorry."

This is all I told her in an e-mail last Friday - when I knew I wouldn't see her again for two days and she would have time to digest it. She evidently got busy planning another way to do it.  One night early in the week Cortney kept me up till midnight asking questions about how much she should ask to go and what the conditions were like. Sounds like Scottie talked her into it (after giving her enough to buy winter clothes and upgrading the hotel to one near a shopping mall...) Gail is also going along to help and they are leaving on the 13th.  So that's that. I not only do not have to do that trip again, but I will get a week off at home! It will be so good.

Tanisha hasn't talked to me about her plans except to have me working on the supplies needed to go, checking meds, etc... She's been pleasant as possible considering that she hasn't felt good. I know the stress is making all her physical problems worse.  Today I'm going to work knowing that I'm getting a cold for the first time in three years, that I can remember. Dennis has had it for a week now and I thought I would escape but I guess not.  More later about my busy week...