7 down~10 to go!

Today was my 7th radiation treatment. I have 10 more with the possibility of 3 at a lower dose and to a more specific area. I am feeling okay. I have so much more energy than I had a month ago. The radiation is hurting my throat area. It hurts really bad to eat. I have to take really small bites and chew it up really good and it still hurts. I have recovered from all my illnesses. My lungs are back to normal. NO PERMANENT DAMAGE! I am still on oxygen at night, but only because it wasn't my lung doctor that put me on it. It was my oncologist and I don't see him again for a few weeks. I keep taking it off in the middle of the night and I am still alive so I think I will be okay without it.

We signed Zander up for soccer. He starts in August. I asked him if he wanted to play soccer and he said "YEAH! I want to have a number 1 on my back!" It was pretty cute. We got him some cleats and everything. I am excited to get him on a team. I can't wait until he can start baseball, but I think we are a couple years away from that. He is done with swimming lessons. They were a short thing. I missed most of it because I was in the hospital for the first one and too sick to go to the rest. I tried, but it was too much for me.

Irelynn is doing well. Crawling all over the place and getting into everything. The other day Frank was leaving for work and she said "bye daddy". She is picking up so much. She had her 18 month well child last week and her pediatrician is impressed with all she is doing and saying. She says mama, daddy, hi and bye bye. She tries to say doggy and baby. She is also starting to pull herself up on furniture.

Frank too is doing well. He is still a great husband and daddy and I am SOOOOO lucky to have found him. He still has his days though...

Cabin fever has set in pretty bad. I need to get out of town. We are hoping to go camping sometime soon. Maybe towards the end of July. We will have to see.

My friend Kim is here from Vegas. We have had lots of fun so far and I am sure there is more to come. We had a little reunion of some of our high school friends and are doing a BBQ on Thursday to meet each others kids.

I am getting excited to head to Vegas too, but have 4 more months until that happens. It will be here soon enough. I hope.

I will update you all again soon. Thank you to everyone for thinking and praying for us during this difficult time. We really do appreciate it.

Getting better?

So from what I can tell I am healing nicely from my Pneumonia, Blood Clot and Bleomyacin Toxicity. I am still supposed to take it easy for the next month but I am getting up and around A LOT more. I get very tired very easily and am still pretty slow. I started driving this week. I have driven more in the last week than I did the entire month before this week. I have had something every day this week and it is the same way next week.

I had a nice 32nd birthday. We went to dinner with my mom and the kids on my birthday and then Saturday Frank and I went out to dinner on our own. It was nice and I even had a drink! That is a rare thing when I am healthy but after the month I had I figured I deserved one!

So yesterday I went in for my radiation simulation. Tomorrow I go in and finish it. They will give me "tattoos" that they will use to know where to set me up for the radiation. Then I start radiation on MONDAY! That is one week earlier than my goal! I also had expected to have to do 6 weeks of radiation and I only have to do 3 1/2 to 4 weeks. This means that one month from now this should all be behind me! I will still have lots of appts and scans I am sure, but for the most part I will be DONE! We can get on with our lives! I am hoping that it won't take me long to regain my strength and I can get back to work by July 31st. Maybe sooner! I am very excited to get back to work. It is a huge stress to not be working. I love being around my kids more. It is making up for the fact that I am not "taking care" of them. At least I get to be around them more.

Zander had his last day of pre school today. He will be in Pre K in the fall at St. Al's. They have been wonderful to us, especially in the past few months. His previous teachers from his pre preschool class invited him back today for a graduation. They had little graduation caps and he got a diploma. He hasn't been in that class for a few months now, but I think Miss Brittanie and Miss Amanda always had a special place in their hearts for Zander. It was very kind of them to invite us to their graduation party.

I will try to update you and let you know how the radiation goes. It has just been so crazy with all my appts the past couple weeks and like I said, next week is no different.

Thank you everyone!