Hello everyone,
I don’t really have anything to say today. I understand that some of you are still waiting to hear my story. After all, I did promise that I would tell it. This blog was a little intimidating at first, but now I’m starting to get into the groove. My story might be long so I’m going to break it down over a period of time starting this weekend. So, come back to see what I have to say!!
Hello everyone, happy Spring!! I don’t know what it’s like in the rest of the world, but here in California it is a beautiful sunny day.
Today is National Cancer Awareness day. The cancer flower is daffodil. The Cancer Center was handing out bouquets of daffodils to all the cancer patients this morning. When you get the daffodil its a bud, by the next day it’s in full bloom. I tried to upload a picture but for some reason the file was too big.
I’ve been doing pretty good. I’m working more than normal and starting to feel more normal everyday other than the fact that I can’t walk so much anymore. I had to go up and down the stairs 3 times in a row today and that was tough! Yesterday my radiation was cancelled because my machine needed a tune-up. I guess these machines need tune-ups once a month. So now my last radiation day is next Wednesday. Getting closer! I’m happy that it’s almost over, but trying to get as much done as I can while I’m feeling pretty well. I’m not sure what it’s going to be like when I start the chemo again in about a month.
I would like to start out by thanking everyone for all your prayers. My radiation doctor told me today that I am doing remarkably well. I went through all of this 4 years ago and my treatment this time is much more aggressive, but I’m not nearly as sick as last time.
I’ve met a couple of really great ladies undergoing treatment for cancer at the cancer center. Last week they all finished and I sure missed seeing my friends today! I’m very happy for them that they are finished though. One women in particular is going through treatment for cancer in her brain. It started out as breast cancer, she was cancer free for 6 years and it came back in her brain. She’s about 10 years younger than me so it’s very sad. On a positive note, her doctor is very hopeful for her survival because she tested positive for the hormone that causes the breast cancer. Every 3 weeks she will have to go in for injections of heparin. (I think that’s what it’s called) Then in 4 years there will be a vaccine and the vaccine will cause the body to make it’s own heparin. A month ago she thought it was a death sentence, now she believes she will survive.
A lot of people think cancer patients are scared and depressed. Well, everyone that I’ve met have been positive and upbeat. Cancer thinks it’s going to come in a wreck us, but I have news for you cancer….we’re going to beat you and you’re not going to get us down!
Hello everyone. I’ve been getting a lot of flack from my niece RaeAnn for not posting in my blog recently. She has taken a volunteer position to remind me at certain times everyday to blog! So thanks to RaeAnn, I’m back.
I’ve been feeling ok, just consistantly tired now with the radiation. 8 more treatments left, then I get a little break before I start back with the chemo. Some of you know that one of the chemo’s I recieved conflicted with my bone marrow and I had to have 4 pints of blood transfused because my hemoglobin level was at 3. Way way way to low. Luckily I changed chemo’s and didn’t have any problems with the round after. Radiation also affects your hemoglobin and plateletts so more than likely I will need more transfusions after the radiation.
So, my prayer request today is, I would like God to protect my bones and blood so that I need little or no blood and platel. I don’t want anything interfering with my treatment.
One of the other days I promised to tell my story. Well, I think I will do it a little at a time just to make my posts a little more interesting. I don’t want you all to get bored!
This is all for today, but I will be back tomorrow.
Ok, so I promised to tell my story today, but I think I will hold off until Saturday. Today is a good day though because I am half way through my treatment! I’ve had 3 rounds of chemo and 13 days of radiation. I’ve had good times and bad times, but mostly good times. I’m so blessed to have so many people praying for me. Your prayers are really working. This week I have been extremely tired but it’s probably due to the fact that last week my family was here from Washington. We went to the San Diego Zoo, The Aquarium of the Pacific, we went on a 6 mile hike one day. The day it poured down rain we were in the mall walking around all day. I love my family so much. My nephew Ben is staying with me for 3 months (from Washington) and I have been nothing but happy since he’s been here.
The important thing to add is that God gave me a promise January 2008. I had a note book in my purse that I had never really looked at until I was sitting in the waiting room waiting to hear my prognosis. I took the note book and read, “I know the plans I have for you.” While I read it, I felt like God was saying this out loud right in front of me. It was something I had never felt before. A couple of weeks later I found an old bible from my childhood. There was only one verse underlined in the whole bible and that was “I know the plans I have for you, to prosper you and not to harm you.” Once again I could’ve sworn God was physically in the room with me talking to me. From that moment on I knew everything would be ok.
God never promised the cancer wouldn’t come back, but the way I understood this is that he has big plans for me. In November 2011 I had excruciating pain on my right side that wouldn’t go away. I finally went to the ER 2 days later and found out the cancer had come back again in a lymph node in my abdominal area. The doctor said the pain wasn’t from the tumor, but they never find the source of the pain. I’m positive this pain was God’s way of telling me to get to the Doctor NOW. Another reason I believe I’m going to be just fine.
Thank you all so much for your prayers. I can never begin to tell you how much that means to me. It means my life literally.
My nephew and niece have been bugging me for a while now to start a blog, so tonight I decided to start.
I was diagnosed with cervical cancer January 2008. I was told that if there was no recurrence of cancer within the first 2 years that there would be less than a 10% chance of it coming back. Well, it came back after 4 years.
This will be the story of my life with cancer. I wanted to start today with an introduction, then tomorrow I will give the background.
I hope you all enjoy this!