Third Chemo treatment

First off, I need to give a BIG shout out to Jan and Alyce from Goldendale, WA.  They have taken the time to get my mom connected to my blog.  THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!  They print it out daily for her to read. So kind of you.

Well, it's time for chemo treatment number three. Kind of hard to believe. It's going by darn fast. I am doing pretty good. This darn cold that I have has been a real bummer. I can't tell you the last time I had a coughing cold. It sucks!! It would be terrible if they cancelled by treatment today because of it. So please pray for this cold to leave me and also that my treatment moves forward today. Funny huh, I want treatment. Weird. Got to get er done though.

Our house has settle down from the company of our grandkids and big kids. It was so wonderful having everyone home for this holiday season.  I really miss you all! My grand babies are the cutest and the best kids. They really are so good. Good job Tami and Sam Kazdahl!

I was able to work this week, but only worked 6 hours Tuesday and Wednesday and just a few hours Thursday. I got home yesterday by noon and was able to take a bath and rest up all day for today. So, I am all rested and ready to go get my red poisen pumped in me.

I am really excited because my best eeees Nancy and Jody are coming to hang with Danno and I at the hospital today. Shaina is going to stop by and say hi also. I think Tami might pop in for a quick hello too. Going to make it a good day.

Amazing day.....

Look what my beautiful friend Shana did today....

 Can you believe this?  Shaina is a co-worker of mine at Harborview. Love her!!! She told me she was going to shave her head so I knew she was going to do it. She left for lunch today and came back looking like me :) Thank you Shaina!!! I guess it's time for me to embrace this bald head that I have. If Shaina can do it I can do it. Bald is beautiful when I look at Shaina :)

I am feeling pretty good this week. My cold has still slowed me down a little. I am trying really hard to get all well by Friday. I don't want them to cancel my treatment. Not that I am looking forward to treatment, but we got to do them to get through them, right!

Karley plays tonight :) can't wait to watch her on my big screen.

Christmas weekend......

The weekend started with Karley getting home on Thursday night :)

 She was so excited to be home. She was glowing from her trip to Hawaii. She was so beautiful. She loved the decorated house. It was so great to see her. It was also the first time she had seen her mommy with no hair. She loved my bald head and kissed it just like she said she was going to. I wasn't feeling well so I couldn't go with Dan to get Karley, but her best friend Joanna was in town and went in my place and surprised Karley. It was great! Then we got to enjoy Joanna over night and some of Friday. Love you Jo!

Friday, my beautiful friend Peri-lyn...

 Set up for her friend to take professional family photos of us. It was so wonderful. We haven't had professional photos ever. Haley met us at the house and we all headed to Peri-lyns to take photos. It was great! She has a barn, a tree swing and just cool scenery to take pictures.

Then Friday night Dan and I just spent the evening resting. It was really nice. 


Christmas Eve we went to our great friends Merle and Bettie's. It was so nice. I got to meet Hank Edelbrock :) Courtney's son just born November 30th. We got to see Marcus and Becky. We also met Dr. Bob and his wife Gloria. It was just a great Christmas Eve. I did end up totally crashing before dinner. Got up had dinner and headed home. It was still a good. I am learning that when you are a cancer patient you just can't do everything you used to do.  Some pictures from the evening.....

Me and Bettie

Marcus and Becky...

Wade and Courtney....

Karley and Hank...

And one bald head to another....

Christmas Eve night Sam, Tami and the grand kids came back to our house to stay so the kids would wake up and open up their Santa gifts and have Christmas morning. It was so wonderful having them all here. We just loved it! Dan fixed us all breakfast.( Even though it was his Birthday. I am going to celebrate his Birthday this next weekend in Portland ) It was so fun watching the kids open up their stockings and gifts. Haley came out and later in the afternoon we all went to to Todd and Dawn Ackley's to spend Christmas with more family. 

It was a totally stress free relaxing Christmas spent with family and friends. Thoroughly enjoyed ever minute of this Christmas :))

Christmas morning....

  
And then finally Christmas night we celebrated Danno's Birthday....

Yep....you see it correct a half a Birthday cake. We are so lame. Sorry Danno. I am going to make it to you next weekend.


Happy holidays to you all!!!!

Duct taping my head.... Our day and THE WIG!!!!!

Just in case you guys wonder what Dan and I do in our spare time these days......

 Yep, duct taping the remaining hair off of my head. Anton told us we needed to get the rest of the hair off my head other wise it could cause some sores on my head.  Totally gross isn't it. Eeeewwww.... We were sitting listening to Karley's ball game as she is socking up sun in Hawaii duct tapping my head. They won!!!

So today started out to be a pretty good day. Dan and I got up early to try to do something for Christmas, since I have done nothing. We made it to one store and to get a bit to eat before I had to quickly get home. Got home and I was pretty sick. I definitely have had a case of the headache, achy I don't feel good all over.

Jenni I cast my magic won, and it didn't work. Dang it!!

 Haha......

THE WIG!!!!! I know you are all dying to see my wig. Well, I wore it out today :) Dan and I are going to work on it tonight to try to get a part and get the part on the side. It felt pretty good to go out and not feel like a cancer patient.  Thank you Bettie and Merle. I will be looking smoking hot when I get to your house on Saturday. :)

Hi all......

Sorry I have not sent you all an update post in to many days. I am doing okay. It's been a rough couple of days. I am struggling with my wig. That is really stressing me out. I have caught a cold and that really sucks. I haven't been feeling really well and I am soooo tired.

The wig....Bettie and I picked it up yesterday and I didn't have the energy to even attempt to fix it until today. I got really frustrated and did not like the front at all. Dan and I took it back and they have made some changes, but again I haven't had the energy to fix it yet. Maybe tomorrow.


I am definitely feeling less energy and spunk this round of chemo compared to last. I didn't make it to work today and I am sure I am not going to make it tomorrow. I just need to rest a lot more. The nausea is still pretty under control, as long as I take my medication.

Over all, I am still doing really good. Things are very tolerable. My body just needs to rest a lot.

Video of my hardest day being a cancer patient.....

This starts with the day I realized I was loosing my hair. Then moves into when my friends met up with me at Anton's Salon in Bellevue. Then my sister and I went to Swedish for my second treatment. Katy Mowrer and Jenni Coles came to visit me at Swedish :) 

Peri-lyn, my lovely boot camp instructed brought us taco soup and salad for dinner once we all got home. It was so great!!

Karley is in Hawaii with her basketball team. So the love in the sand is from her. Love it!!

Thank you all so very much for sharing this very emotional time with me.  Thank you also for the amazing support, encouragement and love you ALL continue to give to me. And Dan, thank you for being the most wonderful husband a woman can have. I love you

Thank you all for loving me through it.....

Emotion, exhausting day......

The day started out by going to Anton's Salon to get my hair cut :( My entourage was with me. Dan, Bettie, Shelly, Nancy, Amanda and Jody. Thank you all for spending this time with me. Once we all arrived Anton took us back to the salon chair. He and Curt started taking pictures of my hair, front, back, side and the part. Next Anton started cutting/shaving my hair. It was very sad for me. I cried the whole time. Of coarse my wonderful friends were telling my that I have a beautiful round head. That I am so brave. I didn't feel any of those things. I still cannot look at my head in the mirror with out crying. I know this will get better. I will embrace this head eventually.

Next my sister and I headed over to Swedish hospital for my chemo treatment. Everything went really well. My blood work was great. Dr. Kaplan said I was doing well. I told him how  things went these first two weeks and he said things should be pretty similar these next two weeks.

Katy Mowrer  and Jenni Coles came and visited me during my chemo today. Was great to see you both!!

I am totally exhausted so I will finish this post tomorrow, I have some wonderful photos and more to share