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We've just left my grandmother's house. (She lives in Houston, so I don't get to see her very often, even though I just live in Corpus.) She seems to be doing well... but she's lost a lot of weight and her hair is starting to fall out. It's been about three weeks since her first round of chemotherapy, and they told her that would happen. Other than that, she's pretty healthy.

For those of you that don't know me, or haven't been told, Granmel (what we call her) was diagnosed with lung cancer. Which if you don't know, is incurable. They can slow it's progression, maybe even stop it for a while, but it'll always be there. The good news is, I don't think she's smoking anymore (or at least she didn't while we were there) but Grandpa Marlin is still smoking his pipe. But we can't tell him no, and we certainly won't tell her we told her so. The damage is already done, it would be downright mean to do that now.

She's doing better, but please keep her in your prayers.