Oh my! For some reason, I have missed your latest replies to this, I'm so sorry!
Thank you so much for your support, and your kind words!

Tomorrow is my appointment with the endocrinologist, and I'm a little nervous re. her decision how to treat the tumor. Will keep you informed.

The past weeks have been rough. Those who are on Facebook may have read my status updates about my hot water tank and gas pipes being replaced. Those days - and the cleaning afterwards - were so exhausting and it took my more than a week to recover from that. It's so embarrassing that I cannot deal any better with stressful situations like that. Hate that! The past two or three days were slightly better, I was painting the new gas pipes on Monday; yesterday, I spent the afternoon and evening with a friend in Kassel, and today, I'm not as exhausted as I expected to be after that trip. Now I'm going to drive to Goettingen tomorrow for that doctor's appointment. Hope I won't get some bad news there!