So, tomorrow, I suppose, is the big day - we'll find out if the dr. clears me. Honestly, Sunday I was increasingly concerned b/c the pain didn't seem to be subsiding. However, yesterday and today it has been worlds better. So, I'm cautiously optimistic.

Everyone keeps telling me, since I started having the knee problems, that running a half marathon is still an accomplishment. But I cannot stand to do half of what I already said that I would do, even though obviously I realize that a half marathon is a huge accomplishment and more than I've ever done before. But when I signed up to do this in Anna's honor, my commitment was a whole marathon and that's what I want to do. *insert stomping of foot like five year old* In any event, the cause is the same and the money I raise in the process will not change. So, if I have to do a half, then I'll do a half - but I'm determined for that to not be the case.

Anna told her babysitter that she wondered how she was going to get into her new healthy body when she gets to heaven, and get out of the one she has now. The things that little five year old ponders in her every day life are larger than anything I have to consider.