My amazing oncology nurses giving me the last of the "Red Devil"!
My amazing and most supportive husband!! Every step of the way he has been by my side!
The past two weeks have been busy. My Dad came to visit for a few days. It was so great to see him. We even got to go out to eat one day while he was here. A lot of couch time and sitting on the back porch taking in the wonderful fall weather over good conversation.
Brandon, Nana aka Mom, Anna, and I loaded up in the car and traveled down to St. Marys, GA last weekend. For those of you with small children, you know traveling at night is the only way to do it, it was our first time making the trip from Birmingham. It was a dark trip, few street lights, and more deer than you could imagine.
It was a fantastic weekend getting to see some of the most wonderful friends that one could hope to have; and celebrate the upcoming marriage of two of the most amazing people, Ashley Packard and Jordan Pierce! I have no doubt in my mind they have found their forever match, true love!
We enjoyed the time away and change of scenery. Downtown boasted the most precious scare crows, but Linda Williams took first place in our books (if you live in St. Mary's I highly recommend her for city council, don't forget to vote)! We got to take time to have lunch at Riverside Cafe and play at the park. Love small town life!
It was Mom's first time being home since the beginning of July, I know it must have been so hard for her to leave to come back with us. At least this time she has more than a weeks worth of clothes with her. I am forever grateful for all she has done for myself, Anna, Brandon, and Little Bear. She has cooked, cleaned, nurtured, and been the strongest when things were difficult to come to terms with. I hope that I can be just half the mom she is to me. Love you Mama!!
On my good days I love to take full advantage of them. This means making homemade cookies and eating as much dough as we can! Anna is the best kitchen helper. We also had a play date. The wonderful people that we purchased our house from, their daughter-in-law and granddaughter came over. It was great conversation and Anna so enjoyed being around someone her age.
After treatment on Thursday I rested up, and mustard up enough energy to take a few photos and take Anna to three houses for her first trick or treating experience. She was a little confused at first. She wanted to give the candy back and go into our neighbors' houses for a visit. Silly girl. I let time get away and didn't have time to get a new outfit together for Anna, she was a repeat of last year. Anna the Bumble Bee! So happy that I bought her costume a little bigger than needed! A special thanks to my mother-in-law aka Grandmommy for coming in town to help out with Anna and take her trick or treating!
I feel so relieved to have completed the final dose of the "Red Devil" a.k.a AC treatment! I start my next treatment 11/14/13 of Paclitaxel a.k.a Taxol. Some of the symptoms are hair loss (don't have to worry about this one), finger and toe nail loss, and muscle and joint pain. I will go every week for 12 weeks, seems like such a short amount of time in a long life to live. Met with my oncologist, Dr. Atkinson, after my treatment on Thursday. She measured my tumor before we began treatment, to touch it was 2 cm. and now it is 0.8cm. TREATMENT IS WORKING! Dr. Atkinson is very positive about how I have done and seems very optimistic I will handle the next round of treatment well!
Thank you all for your continued prayers, support, love, good juju, happy dances, and positive vibes!! I am so fortunate to have you all in my life!
It was a fantastic weekend getting to see some of the most wonderful friends that one could hope to have; and celebrate the upcoming marriage of two of the most amazing people, Ashley Packard and Jordan Pierce! I have no doubt in my mind they have found their forever match, true love!
We enjoyed the time away and change of scenery. Downtown boasted the most precious scare crows, but Linda Williams took first place in our books (if you live in St. Mary's I highly recommend her for city council, don't forget to vote)! We got to take time to have lunch at Riverside Cafe and play at the park. Love small town life!
It was Mom's first time being home since the beginning of July, I know it must have been so hard for her to leave to come back with us. At least this time she has more than a weeks worth of clothes with her. I am forever grateful for all she has done for myself, Anna, Brandon, and Little Bear. She has cooked, cleaned, nurtured, and been the strongest when things were difficult to come to terms with. I hope that I can be just half the mom she is to me. Love you Mama!!
On my good days I love to take full advantage of them. This means making homemade cookies and eating as much dough as we can! Anna is the best kitchen helper. We also had a play date. The wonderful people that we purchased our house from, their daughter-in-law and granddaughter came over. It was great conversation and Anna so enjoyed being around someone her age.
Yummy! I do know that Anna is very dirty, just before this picture we completed her favorite activity.. watering the flowers. Watering flowers at our house also means a little digging in the dirt.
After treatment on Thursday I rested up, and mustard up enough energy to take a few photos and take Anna to three houses for her first trick or treating experience. She was a little confused at first. She wanted to give the candy back and go into our neighbors' houses for a visit. Silly girl. I let time get away and didn't have time to get a new outfit together for Anna, she was a repeat of last year. Anna the Bumble Bee! So happy that I bought her costume a little bigger than needed! A special thanks to my mother-in-law aka Grandmommy for coming in town to help out with Anna and take her trick or treating!
I feel so relieved to have completed the final dose of the "Red Devil" a.k.a AC treatment! I start my next treatment 11/14/13 of Paclitaxel a.k.a Taxol. Some of the symptoms are hair loss (don't have to worry about this one), finger and toe nail loss, and muscle and joint pain. I will go every week for 12 weeks, seems like such a short amount of time in a long life to live. Met with my oncologist, Dr. Atkinson, after my treatment on Thursday. She measured my tumor before we began treatment, to touch it was 2 cm. and now it is 0.8cm. TREATMENT IS WORKING! Dr. Atkinson is very positive about how I have done and seems very optimistic I will handle the next round of treatment well!
Thank you all for your continued prayers, support, love, good juju, happy dances, and positive vibes!! I am so fortunate to have you all in my life!
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