Intense first phase of treatment is over ....YES

It has been a crazy week to say the least.  I have been feeling much better. Made it to work all three work days. That felt really good.


On a sad note, my mother fell and broke her neck this week. I am sad for her. AND, she was suppose to be coming to stay with me for a week this week. I am really bummed.
She has no paralysis, praise God for that! She has what is called a "hangman's fracture" she broke vertebras on either side of her neck and will be in a collar for about 3 months. They are still hopping she will not have to have a "halo". This would suck for her. She is doing well and is still in the hospital in Portland. Karley has been able to go see her which has been wonderful. We are still anxiously waiting to see when she will be released and how much care she will need. I really want her to come and stay with me, but she really wants to just get home for a while.


Back to my crazy world :) My treatment was another success yesterday. No reactions, no problems. I am really lucky that things continue to go so well.
My beautiful friend amanda came by an visited me during treatment and she totally spoiled me with a manicure. I have never had shellac nails before and they are so pretty. I just went with a clear sparkly pink and I LOVE IT!!! Thank you so Amanda!

After Amanda left the nurses just kept talking about how cool that was and that they haven't seen that one before during a chemo treatment. ....you are the first Amanda.


After my treatment I was pretty sleepy so Danno just let me rest before we ventured on towards home

It's hard on a girl to get yucky stuff pumped into her for four hours :)


Now I am totally dreading this next week. I know it is going to be a tough one. I also know that I can do it.


I have an MRI on Friday morning to see how well my treatments have done so far. Please God let these tumors be shrinking away. I feel a little anxious. I will just continue to pray for healing through each session of my journey.


Then I will have a week off and then onto my 12 weekly treatments of "taxol". New drugs, new side affects new venture. It sounds like I should have no nausea with this drug. Wont even have to take the nausea meds that I take now. That will be good. I will possible have some nueropothy, which could be tinkling in my fingers and toes. Sounds easy, but my doctor said can be a big deal. So, we will just have to wait and see.
Taxol is definitely suppose to be a lot easier as far as fatigue also. I am all for that. Fatigue is so brutal.


One more shout out to my man. He is truly the best man I have ever know. He does the most amazing things for me. I come home Wednesday night, ironically the night my mom had fallen so we were down stairs making calls and figuring out were mom was and calling and talking to nurses and doctor and social workers for a good hour before I even took my coat off. Then I decide to go upstairs to take a bath and I walk into my bathroom and this is on my counter.

A dozen roses, an amazing gift and a beautiful rose card. He is just so special and I am just so lucky to have him. He doesn't ever do things like on Valentines Day he always does it in a way when I would never expect it.
Love him so much! Could not have a better man to be taking care of me especially now. 
I am so blessed!!


One more thing I want to share because I never finished it earlier because Christmas got so hectic. I had posted a couple of 12 days of Christmas gifts that Dan had gotten for me. So sweet. He had bought me 12 gifts one for each 12 days of Christmas. All just small thoughtful gifts. Then we all got sick the kids and grandkids came for almost a week and life was just really busy. So just be for Christmas I started finding gifts on our stair case when I would be walking up to bed, in my sheets, in my pillow case, in my car, on my bathroom counter. It was the sweetest thing ever.


Shoot out to "Dan The Man" for being such an amazing husband, friend and partner. I love you so much !!