Chemo Graduation and Scrapbook

This is my Chemo Graduation Scrapbook. It isn't very long, but I think it does a good job of capturing the past few months. We wish we could capture every single prayer, act of service, hugs, and listening ears, of the past few months because they are all very important to us; we could not have done this without all of you!!!

I will be starting radiation the week of July 6th. I will go 33 times and hopefully end around August 21. After all this is said and done, I will be able to say that I have done all I could to make me healthy. I will have the "go" from my doctors and the probability that I will be cured will be in the up ninety percentile. I firmly believe that modern medicine is a modern day miracle.

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First day of the rest of my life

Today I have declared the first day of the rest of my life. Today I went for my first walk after my last session of chemo. It felt great!!! I am not running yet, but I feel like I am now officially on the road to recovery. I want to challenge everyone to join with me in making this the first day of the rest of your lives. Some ideas might be to do something you have always wanted, or make a goal to change something for the better in your life, or to take time tell those you love that you love them.

You don't have to go through cancer to realize that life is short and to make it grand!

May recap

May was a fun month with all the recitals, soccer games ,choir concerts, plays and reports. We enjoyed beautiful weather which made for a fun month. here is a few pictures to recap the fun.

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chemo recap 4 and 5

I haven't taken time to blog but here is a recap of sessions four and five. I was so tired after session 4 that I took a lot of naps. The month of May was busy with all the kids activities the last month of school. I was tired and didn't really recover from round 4. Usually by day 10 after chemo I feel pretty good, but round 4 was just brutal; I couldn't even run well.

When I got to session 5, the doctor saw me not doing as well and decided to cut back a little on the chemo by 10% (they call it "chemo stacking" and usually by the end of sessions the doctor's tend to cut back) and the nurse hydrated me with 2 bags of water. All together, the cut back and water made the 6th session one of the easiest. It was such a blessing because I wondered how I was going to finish all 6 sessions but after session 5, I felt like I could make it through number 6.