When life gives you lemons

After the results of my last scan, I have been wondering. I realize that "it is what it is" as they say, but......is it possible that....naahh, probably not so much.

Phew! I feel better now that that issue is resolved. Next issue please.

When life gives you lemons what should you do? Ok, altogether now, "MAKE LEMONADE". And when life gives you ginger, put the lemon and the ginger in a small teapot, wait 3 minutes and drink.

Great advice I believe as lemon and ginger have both been noted for slowing the spread of cancer. Who is not going to be all over that I ask myself!! And "HELLO", at this time of year isn't it time to start thinking of all things ginger? For the ginger impaired let me just say GINGERBREAD. Enough said.

So, when life gives you lemons don't whine, just add a little ginger and let your imagination run wild...you know....within reason...don't go too crazy....maybe just make tea...or some gingerbread...that's all I"m saying.

What next?

Starting this coming Monday, I begin radiation treatment again. They will be treating two different spots on my left side. The concern this time is broken bones.

There are two other spots, (I like to call them spots because it makes me think of polka-dots...which are happy and friendly little things..like confetti, or candy...am I right?)

Anyway, these two other spots are in areas that have been radiated before...and because of that one tiny little fact, they can't radiate them right now.

Those two spots (I am going to call them Pink and Purple) can only be radiated by the big Gamma Knife machine.

So in my mind I am picturing a delicious cake with pink and purple dots made of fondant (see previous blog on making fondant)and a big knife cutting a perfect piece which I promptly place in a garbage can because who in their right mind wants a cake made of cancer cells.

I have never been Gamma Knifed before so rest assured my friends, there will be more on that in the weeks to come.

The next new experience will be IV chemotherapy. I have been on oral chemo for the better part of the past year.... That was a weird sentence.... The BETTER part of last year? Which part was that? That is going to require more thought.

I don't know for sure what my treatment will look like...but next Tuesday my Dr. will unlock the secret chemo plan to me...and I will shout it from the mountain tops as I will already be up there shouting about my upside down life. Then I will feel much better having released all that stress.

So stay tuned,same time, same channel, for more of this adventure.

Thank you again

I just want to say thank you again for what everyone did for me yesterday.
I am so grateful.

Happy Birthday

What a day! Amazing day! Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!

What's missing?

In our family there has always been a mom and a dad and two kids.
Right now there is only a mom and two kids. Oh there is still a dad, but he is making other choices right now....hence the upside down house in the previous blog.

It has been challenging here in the "two kids and no dad" jungle, but I sure have a new appreciation for single moms. Single moms...YOU ROCK! This is a hard job and for me it just got a little, or let's say A Lot harder.

With my new treatment schedule the next few months appear as if I will be learning a whole new level of letting go. Wasn't I already at the "letting go" bottom? I thought for sure I had nothing left to let go of. But I guess I do. Dang!

So here we go again with the "this mom and two kids are forging ahead" theme. I think we need a theme song. Looks like it might be this way for a while.
Any suggestions?

Upside down

Forgive me if say that I can't blog today. There is just "too much" and God and I need to have a conversation about how I am going to handle it.

Scan News

The news from my latest scan was not the news we hoped for. I will be starting more radiation soon. The Dr. has chosen to take me off the oral chemo as he believes it has stopped working. When I am through with the radiation I will begin a new form of chemotherapy. God willing, the cancer will be defenseless against it.