Update 11/26 and sick leave needs anticipated

Hi all,
Well it was a great weekend being able to sing on Saturday as well as see my brother, father and his wife. We were able to have some days together here in the valley after Thanksgiving, and wow, do I have a lot to be thankful for and I'm so grateful for your prayers.
I still feel wiped out and not "normal." I mean, I just don't have the stamina that I had before and today was really hectic with family and phone calls and a meeting and trying to take care of lots of things and it was too much. Isn't that funny, something people going through their daily routine do every day and it was too much for me. I mean, I got home and I was spun out and exhausted. It was all I could do to heat up a bowl of soup and eat a couple of pieces of See's candy that my dad and his wife Ellie brought me. I was ready to jump into bed about two hours ago but wanted to do a post first. I just am continually astounded how out of it I kind of feel. As it was with chemo sort of knocking me down a peg each time, I feel like the fight backc to physical "wholeness" if you will, is just going to be a daily persevering process and i have to not berate myself for not being back to normal yet. It's going to be awhile and that has to be okay. I'm learning...
Next week, I go back to LA for more physical therapy and another visit to the plastic surgeon. As it is now, I am having surgery again at the end of January to put in the implants and it will take a bit to recover from that since I've just had surgery once and am working on rehab from that. So, my sick days run out in February from the Catastrophic sick leave bank, and I'll have to request days be donated from my colleagues. As for how that process works, I've e-mailed Mike Duran for his direction since he will leave his post as the union president in about a week or so to take a post on the school board here in Desert Sands USD. Anyway, as it looks now, I'll still need second semester off so I'm praying for the support that I'll need to do that.
That's all for now, I'm going to bed.
love you,
julie