Vacation in Southern Carribean

This past two weeks have been so much fun.  We went to the Southern Carribean out of San Juan and went to St. Thomas, St. John, Barbados, ST LUCIA, St. Kitts, and St. Marten.  The main place I was excited to see, is evident! St.Lucia.  If you have followed my blog, I had a port put in  my chest back in June to be able to hook up my chemo to.  I ended up being able to have my chemo through a pill, and haven't utilized my port other than to have it accessed every six weeks to clean it out.  My niece said I should give it a name, which made me laugh.  I decided since it was a port, I would name it my favorite "port" which is definitely St.Lucia.  So when we went to St. Lucia last week,  I introduced my "Lucy", to her name sake, St. Lucia.  I have always thought of St. Lucia as what Heaven would be like.  On our water tour around the island, I was talking to a sweet 20 year old St. Lucian young lady, and I told her heaven would look like this island.  She very quickly answered me with the best comment ever.  "Heaven is going to be ever so much better than St. Lucia".  I feel so lucky to have been able to go back again.

We got back Monday night, and when we came in the house, there were welcome home flowers and balloons and my new drawers in my kitchen were filled with plastic black ants and rubber mice!  Oh yay!  It was pretty funny!

On our vacation, I had some rough days.  Kim gave me a blessing one night, and many other prayers were given for different difficulties I had.  One morning, we had just started a tour on Barbados, and I got very ill. I knew there was something I could do to help the pain, but didn't know what.  I silently prayed,  and said that I knew HE knew what I could do for me to help myself.  Please help me to know.  The second I finished, I was told to drink some of my bottled water.  I did, and I was able to feel so  much better within a minute. I ended up in the onboard doctors office one day from an ear ache but my bad times were so minute to the great time I had on our vacation. I found out that my skin reacts to sun much differently than before chemo. I would get red blotches from the sun in weird places.

While we were gone, our kitchen was finished.  The day after we were home, our appliances arrived and now I am busy putting things away in my cabinets.  I feel like I am having Christmas times 10!