"Good Luck! See your tastebuds in 2 months" Lunch

A few of my favorite co-workers took me to lunch on Friday, March 12th for a "Good luck, see your tastebuds in 2 months" lunch. My last day is not until April 1st but I start treatment on Wednesday, the 17th and found out that I will lose my tastebuds starting in the second week of treatment. So this was my farewell and good luck lunch early in anticipation of that. It was a blast to say the least. Starting with a group of 22 people (you love me, you really do!) and the hostess introducing the waiters inquiring about the occassion (Uh...). We did end up telling her that I was going to have chemo for the next couple months and she even offered to sing to me. Hess was first up to start with "Happy Cancer to you!" sung to the tune of "Happy Birthday", so that was a laugh! We all thought that maybe the lunch could be compted (sp?) by the company and came up with a plan to use a sympathy picture of my lump on my neck and me giving my best "booboo lip" ;) We didn't end up hearing from our General Manager but it was compted (sp?) anyway (Thanks Ron!). Our finance manager and also a really good guy in general, Ron, said a couple really wonderful things about me and I thanked all of the wonderful people there for attending my lunch. I did run into some old friends from my previous employer, Lumenis, at the OG too. Polly is a cancer survivor and gave me some great words of encouragement and it was really good to see all of them! I work with some of the best and funniest people ever and it pretty much rocks!! Thanks again!