mommaqueen

Fa-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la!!!! That is how I feel today...It is only a few daze before Christmas and the boys and I are having a great time..Greg is on a business trip and so we are just doing what we want to ... when we want to... Kinda' nice to not have a real strict schedule!!! The last week of school before the break was CRAZY!! Every day was filled with events and parties.. I am pooped from the running back and forth(they go to 2 different schools) So, that is why I have not posted in a long time.. not because I did not want to- I have just been busy and really did not have any thoughts that I really wanted to remember... Since my last post I have been on my first oncology appt. Yeah me!!! It wasn't really so bad.. but not so good either!! The waiting room was too crowded and that part freaked me out... Dr. Hill, my oncologist(yikes), is super great.. and the nurse that drew my blood... well, lets just say that I will be waiting for her EVERY TIME I have to be stuck... I have rollie pollie mini veins.. and she hit it the first time.. A FIRST!!!

The way this treatment was explained to me is pretty simple.. I do not have cancer right now.. they got everything and it had not spread to the nodes(YEAH GOD) ... sooooooo, this is all preventative... And, I will be scanned and checked regularly for a long time!!! Mole check anyone!! WEAR Sunscreen!!!

For the first 4 weeks I will make a daily trip to the lovely OVERCROWDED local cancer center... make my way to a chair and wait for my turn...then I will be hooked up to an I V bag for 2 - 3 hours.. then sent home to feel flu-like and take care of my family(to the best of my ability) until I return the next morning... This will be the Monday - Friday routine.. I get weekends off to rest ... at the end of the first 4 weeks I will see Dr. Hill, have blood work done.. and begin the 11 month portion of the journey... This will be a 3 day a week treatment that I will do myself(or a nurse/friend.. depends on my ability to STICK myself)!! Won't I be a fun girl!! The doctor says that I will not feel good... flu-like.. I will be ok... I have lots and lots of people praying me through and I have lots of help too...I have also started taking these pills called JUICE PLUS... and just 2 weeks in to this I really can tell the difference!! The pills are not vitamins, they are whole foods... and they work on the cellular level... making the body work properly from the inside out.. (do I sound like a commercial or what) I really can tell a difference.. Thanks, Ang!!! I started the pills to get my body in good shape before "T" day(treatment day)...

I really am so thankful for my family and friends.. They are taking great care of me... and I really am good!!! Just very very ready for this all to start and then for it to finish!!