So much better .... yay!!!

I am doing so much better :) Saturday did turn out to be my turnaround day.
Looking forward to feeling more normal all week. NOT looking forward to my last intense treatment this Friday :( I already am dreading how I am going to feel next week. But, for now, lets think about how good I am going to feel this week :)


I plan on working my normal schedule this week :) Or as many hours a day as my body will let me work. It will be nice to get into my normal schedule. Day time TV sucks. It is so boring to just hang out at home day after day.


After my treatment this Friday I will start my weekly treatments for 12 weeks. Ughhhh, seems so long huh. These treatments are suppose to be easier so lets just put out some prayers for that :)


Oh oh oh... big SHOUT OUT to my sister and brother in law. They had to bring Chantel to the airport yesterday so they came and visited us for the whole afternoon. Was so great!!  Thanks Shelly and Greg for bringing pizza and salad.  And Shelly thanks a lot for buying a 4lb bag of licorice and leaving it here for me to chow on. You know licorice is my down fall. Dang you!
Loved seeing you guys.

Fatigue!!

I am so fatigued!  Fatigue has definitely got me.  Fatigue sucks!! I can not really do much these days. I just get so tired. I try doing anything and I just can't. I get so tired I have to lay down. This is really yucky and I don't like it at all.

Can I just say that my husband is AH...MAZING!!! He is truly not normal haha. He just does absolutely everything for me.  It's reallly weird because I feel so guilty because I can't do anything. Even though I know I am sick, I just feel like I should be able to do normal stuff. He just makes me feel so good and he keeps reminding me that I am doing so good. Even though I don't feel like I am sometimes because I am so lazy.

Also I miss Karley so much. She is on a road trip now. I don't know when  I will get to see her again. I hate that.

I have treatment in a week, ughhhhh. I can't even stand the thought of another treatment. Oh, and I have so many more. 

Dear God. I pray for grace, strength and courage.  Amen.

I made it.....

So, I left this morning to do my errands. Dan met up with me after he was done working. He took half a day off. Yay!! Love spending time with him :)

I got all of my returns done and we did a little shopping for him. He needed some jeans. I was so ready to come home hours before we came home. He is amazing. I am so cranky. Just really bitchy and he just keeps saying honey it's good for you you need to be out, you have been in house for three days straight. I'm thinking what ever dude I am tired and I want my couch. We f i n a l l y got home and I love my couch. It was really nice to spend a day out. I just can't explain how hard it is. I just have NO energy. It's the weirdest thing I have ever been through. 

We are having mexican night and it has been really nice. I made enchiladas. Of coarse it takes me for ever because  I have to keep resting. We went to tampico's, one of our favorite mexican places, and got beans and chips to go for our appetizer.

Karley plays Arizona tonight so we are excited to watch her in about 15 minutes. 

Been a nice day for a cancer patient hahaha

I am really blessed. I am doing so good!

Going to be a better day......

Yesterday was tough. Today is going to be better. I am so darn bored. I have never ever spent so much time just laying around doing nothing. It's so weird. But I am a cancer patient. I think I forget haha Im quickly reminded when I have no energy to do anything. Hate that!!

I have got my medicine and I feel better already. Antibiotics are amazing.

Today I am going to accomplish a couple of things :) I have a couple returns to do and some banking to do so lets see if I can be out of the house for a couple of hours and survive. I am sure I will be exhausted when I get home but so be it. I need out! 

Poor her

My poor Woman, she is doing as well as expected but she does seem to underestimate her condition at times. She is doing OK but really does not have the energy to do much. In fact her cough and energy level isn't much these days and makes a nights rest pretty tough. Some of the meds make her edgy and uncomfortable but her attitude overrules most bad things. She is doing really good but struggles with some of the obvious issues.  Not looking forward to next Friday already but it is one less treatment, the last of the first big 4 treatments. Then on to the once a week treatments. That is a long set and we hope she will do great. Thanks to everyone that encourages Kim and you have all amazed me on how much you do care.  She is really quite the woman and I love her very much. Keep praying for what it is that God wants us to learn from all of this and how we can grow from this experience. Thanks to you all again.
Dan

Melt down.......

I am soooooo tired of all of this. I am cranky. I am tired of being tired. I am tired of feeling poopy. I feel ugly. I feel sad.
Been a rough 12 hours. Poor Danno. I am so sorry.
I think I have a bladder infection. My doctor forgot to call in the medicine last night. We go all the way into town to get it and no RX phoned in. Dan has to get it for me this morning. My back hurts. I need my medicine. 
Okay, I am done venting. I am going to have a better day today now.

Happy New Year everyone.....

First off, I am sorry I have not blog for so many days. But most important is that I am doing really good :)
I did get my chemo treatment cold and all. I tricked em...went in all cough syrup ed up. It worked :) actually, my blood work was really good and that is what matters.
Dan, myself, Nancy, Jody and Amanda all came to treatment with me on Friday. It was great to have you all with me. Thank you!  And, I am soooo mad we didn't get a picture of all of us for my blog. Booo hooo Treatment went well as usual. I am so blessed! I have not had one bad reaction and I just keep doing so well. Thank God!!

After my treatment we met up with Sam, Tami, Jack & Reese. Also Faye & Truman ( Sam's parents) for lunch in Seattle.

  We had a great lunch. It was great to get to see the kids and grand kids one more time before they left town. It was also great to see Faye and Truman.

Then Dan and I kinda of gambled and planned on me feeling okay to take to the train to Portland to go watch Karley play ball. I felt okay and it worked out great. We stayed at Karley's place Friday night. Her heat was out and it was really cold, but we survived. I was still feeling really good. Weird.
Saturday a friend of mine from High School came to Portland to see us and to watch Karley play ball. Was so great to see you Jodi. Jodi and I played basketball together from 7th grade through high school. We met and had lunch then went to Karley's game.

Larry and Jodi Bellamy and US.

 Karley's team had their first conference game against Montana State. They lost :( Montana  could not miss a shot. PSU actually played pretty good Montana just played exceptional. 

For New Years Eve Dan and I took Karley out to dinner. We had such a great time!

 After dinner Karley dropped us off at our hotel. Oh yea, Danno didn't want to sleep on an air mattress in the cold so we did priceline and got a hotel for the night. It was nice. Karley went to a friends house to bring in the new year. Dan and I went to our hotel sat in the bar and had a couple of drinks before hitting the sac around 10:30. It was still a very happy new year.

I continue to be amazed at how good I am feeling. I still get tired, but I am well. I have decided to not work today and probably this week just because I get so weak. I still have not had much nausea. Just can't accomplish a lot in a day. As long as I get a lot of rest I do okay.

Yesterday I met up with a friend that I have not seen in years and we had a fabulous lunch. Connie and Amanda thank you for lunch and it was so great to see you both. Amanda I wish you the very best in the Navy.

 Connie, Me and Amanda

I must say one thing that this diagnosis has caused for me in a positive matter is the friends that have got in touch with me that I have not talked to in years. It has been a real blessing for me.

Diana thank you for coming out today and bringing lunch and visiting. It was really nice.