A year ago!

A year ago yesterday is when it was confirmed that I had cancer! WOW what a year! Looking back now, how fast it really went. Didn't seem that way at the time. Yesterday, was the BIG snow. I spent the day hanging with Nancy and Jaxon. Watching the weather about the snow, watching the snow, taking pictures and texting about the snow, shoveling the snow, playing in the snow. SNOW, SNOW, SNOW!!!! On and off throughout the day I tried to find parallel, correlation, or meaning to the day. Something to signify that importance of the day for me. And well, I just really couldn't! It was a totally different day, with new trials and tribulations, new highs and lows, a new day...a year later. This is what a took away from it. It is a new year and it doesn't have to be a year of anniversaries of last year. It is a year about NEW things! It will bring its good and its bad, but it is a NEW year. So last year was the year of CANCER and this year, well we will have to wait and see! But in the meantime we will move forward and have as much FUN as we can!!!!!

Treatment

Hello all, well anyone who might still be reading my blog. I am actually sitting in treatment at this very moment. I am using our fancy new laptop. My results from the ECHO and DEXA tests were normal. I saw the Dr. today and she didn't have much to say. All is going well. No news is good news....right??? It is always interesting to sit here and listen to everyone, although it is a bit quiet today. I don't have to have blood work for 9 weeks and I think at that time they will do another Cancer Antigen test. It is hard to believe it has been a year since this fight began. I am so hoping and looking forward to a year of traveling and activity. We have a trip planned to Tulsa soon and then Puerto Vallarta after that! Its time to get back out there and LIVE!

The New Year

We have entered 2011. I am feeling good. Continued joint pain and HOT flashes but otherwise doing well. I just had a couple of test this week. An ECHO to see if my heart is tolerating the Herceptin and a DEXA bone density test to see how my bones are handling the forced menopause.

It is sad to go get treatment and to see all the women who have just began their journey with breast cancer. I think there were 8 of us in the infusion area at my last treatment. I believe I was the furthest along. Everyone looked so bald and so sick. I felt like I was just dropping in having a little down time in my day and they were so in the middle of all the hell.

Jen is amazing (she told me to write that) and Jaxon is .... well still being Jaxon. Today he was doing a little puzzle on his I phone and I told him I would give him $5 dollars if he could tell me who the picture was. He said "Mona Lisa", I gave him $5!