• The Xmas cookie baking thing at Mitch's has been canceled.
• I am waiting on the results of my BRCA1 and BRCA2 tests. The Genetic Counselor (sounds so nice, huh?) told me that they could find out which lab had done Gina's tests and use those results (thanks to Jim's speedy co-operation with release forms) to determine which test to do for me. Apparently, it's pretty rare for siblings to not have the same mutation. The whole battery of tests is what costs ca. $3,000. Just the one test should be $450 and my insurance should cover it since Gina was positive. (Thanks again to Gina and Jim for having that test done and footing that huge bill.) I'll have those results in a couple of weeks. If I am negative, I'll just have the laparascopy done to remove the cyst and stay in the UK ovarian cancer screening program. If I am positive, I will most likely have my ovaries and fallopian tubes removed and do some sort of hormone therapy program. I'd also have to supplement my yearly mammogram with MRIs. I'd no longer be in the UK program (no ovaries to screen-ha!). She said you can still get peritoneal cancer after your ovaries are removed but that it's very rare and that there's no way to detect it, so if you do get it, it will have progressed so far by the time you know that you have it, they wouldn't be able to save you. My next screening at UK is mid-November and my next oncologist appointment is end of November.
• My lawyer says that the judge won't decide till February whether my case will even go to trial, so if it doesn't, I'll have to vacate the house asap in February and pay back-rent for the last 10 months. If it does go to trial, that will happen around April.
• Pat's been on Jury Duty the past week and this week. I think Gus and August have done a great job not freaking out! I think Pat's been enjoying herself--she actually got to finish a book she's been reading!
• Paul is moving to Louisville at the end of November and will start at Sullivan's Culinary School in January.
• Devin is moving to Louisville in mid-January and will start working for Pat and Gus full-time.