10.17.08

I just took my bandage off from Wednesday! He said I couldn’t get it wet til today!

I have to tell ya, Cindy, Vicki, and Patricia were sure gettin’ some funny looks Wednesday. Ya think they were remembered from four months ago? Or do ya think they weren’t being stared at, maybe it was my Kiwi head!

I have always luuvved gray hair. The most obvious coming out right now is gray. I won’t be completely gray, but much more than when I started!

 

I stayed over Prater and Sandy’s last night (my neighbor that has the lung, liver, now brain cancer). The night before he had a seizure. Sandy has NEVER seen a seizure and they didn’t tell her what to expect. Poor thing. I felt bad, cause I didn’t call Wednesday evening to check in. She wanted to call me but didn’t want to bother me because of my port removal. Damnit! I wish I had called. I didn’t sleep anyway that night. I woke up at 2:00 and was up the rest of the night.

Anyway, no seizures last night but lots of coughing! What a difference a week makes. He has lost considerable weight and really is showing the illness.! He won’t take his anti-seizure meds. Tastes real bitter to him. Sandy said the hospice nurse tried to give him the meds yesterday when she was there and Prater held them in his mouth, alongwith the pudding, for 20 minutes before spittin’ it out! He is an hard headed son of a gun!

 

Well, I went into town on my golf cart to get feed this morning about 10:00. I stopped at Lorina’s, the florist. She was the one that brought the plant for Daddy and the basket for Cindy. Anyhow, her oldest daughter was the only one there. Lorina had a meeting she had to go to, and the youngest is pregnant and having problems, so she was at the Dr. She had deliveries that she needed to get out. So how fun! I was a delivery person today! Really had a good time! Got home about 3:00.

 

I went down to the barn to unload the feed and noticed the Jack was at “FULL” attention, as was my gelded jack that was in with her. Hmmmm, two males showing THAT much attention tells me she is ready! I put my Jack in and, well, uh, I guess I will have a baby Jack around next October 17!

 

Saturday 10.18.08

 

Cinidy, Tisha, Kaylee, and I went to Kathy’s  house today. They had an estate sale today to help with funds for her stay in the facility she is in. She is unaware of the activities, but her retirement only pays for two of the four weeks in a month.

She has some nice stuff. It looked as if things were really selling. So, hopefully things will work out.

After we left there, took Tisha back home and Cindy and I went to an herb show. We ended up getting dill. Vicki made some pretty darn good pickles last week. We called her and she said, see if you can find some little cucumbers. We did, so, tomorrow we are going over Vicki’s and make MORE pickles! I’ll let ya know how “those” turn out!

O.K..! I just hung up with Joy Dawn asking me to update this site!(10:15 p.m.)  So here goes JD!

I went through my last chemo September 22. It was quite a celebration! We took a meat and cheese tray, a fruit tray, cookies, and brownies! In trying to be sensitive to those that aren’t doing as well as I am doing, I didn’t want it to be a YOO HOO! It’s my last treatment! So, luckily, Gina, my chemo nurse “just happened” to turn 41 on the 22nd! So the celebration was known to everyone else as a celebration for her birthday. The timing was perfect! It was pretty special to see patients getting up and coming over to get something to eat and visiting along the way! If some didn’t get up, family members came over to get food! It worked out GREAT! We even had the It’s All About Livin’ sign up!

Before I went into chemo, I had my visit with Dr. Lang. She informed me I would be on Tamoxofen (pill) for two years, and another pill for the three after that! So I go back November 3, to see how I am doing and to get my first script for the Tamoxofen. In the meantime, I am working on getting back on some sort of schedule. I slept quite a bit last week. A combination, I guess, of the chemo as well as “the chemo is over” I just really relaxed! I haven’t pushed myself to do anything I didn’t feel like doing. I “have” had an excuse. NO MORE! Life does go on………………

 

I will talk to Dr. Lang and hopefully get the genetic testing process underway. We’ll see if I qualify to be tested! Joy Dawn is going with me on the 3rd of November. She has some questions re: her “breast health.”

 

Cindy, Vicki, and I, went over to see Kathy, Daddy’s sister’s daughter. She was diagnosed five years ago with breast cancer. She underwent a lumpectomy at that time. In the past five years she has gone through several strokes, and just last week was told she has tumors on her brain, some as large as 1.5 inches, some as small as a pea. The doctor doesn’t seem to think any type of treatment will do any good. So at this point, they are going to let it run its course. It is difficult for her to converse. She can get 3-4 words out trying to get a thought across. It’s tough to see and hear, but no doubt, not half as tough as it is for her. I went back the next day and gave her Part 1 of an “Extreme Makeover.” We shaved legs, took dry skin off the feet, used one of those “Pedi Eggs” to take off that skin that was a little tougher to take off the feet. Went up to the knees. Will go back and do from the hands on up. I just hope she had half as good a time as I did. We laughed alot. Yeah, we even cried some.

 

It is really tough for me to see Kathy, my neighbor, who has lung and liver cancer, to hear of Rick, Joy Dawn’s working associate in California that died three days ago of kidney cancer, Christine, Felix and Mary Jane’s daughter that died, leaving two young uns; of Bob Brencat, who just went through a stem cell transplant. Things aren’t going like they have hoped up to this point for his progress.  I have been sooo extremely blessed! It was much easier to offer up my diagnosis and treatment without question. Boy have I questioned why  I have been chosen to be the one healed! Lots of tears have come with that question…….I know there is a reason. This part of my journey has been the toughest! Whew!

O.K., I need to change this part of the subject.

Cindy, brought up yesterday something she saw on her early morning show! HAHAHAHAHA! Talk about an oxymoron! Cindy and early mornings! Anyway, she saw a doctor talking about curing breast cancer in her life time! I checked it out and saw her on the news last night. All I can tell ya is it is worth a try. GO! GO! GO! GO! to this website. You can volunteer! There are going to be places in your area where you can be part of a study! How awesome will that be to see that you, your grand children, their kids, will have ONE LESS THING TO WORRY ABOUT IN ADULTHOOD! Please, check it out!

Going to go out and try to get my golf cart working. I am going to replace the Fuel Pump! Ha! This will be a first!

I am going to keep this up, I promise, Joy Dawn! It’s been kind of a strange thought that someone would want to keep up with what’s going on with me. BUT I will! Especially as I find out other stuff about breast cancer!