One year ago today

  Wow, It's hard to believe it was one year ago today that the surgeon called telling me that the lump removed was indeed cancer.  What a year it's been; surgery's, chemo, radiation and then of course, waiting for the hair to come back.  I survived the chemo (it sucked) but the radiation was a piece of cake.  The hair is still really short, but very thick and I like the color.  The most important thing is that I  had my mammagram 2 weeks ago and it was fine.  Nothing looked suspicious, which is so much better than last January's mamm. That makes me a one year survivor and I am so grateful.

  I know I was lucky it was caught so early and as hard as chemo was I'm soooooooo glad I did it.  I am looking forward to a long life (God willing) and I want to watch my adorable grandkids grow up.  The 2 days a week of babysitting through chemo was hard, but I loved every minute of it.  Leah, my angel, age 4, Kadence, what a special girl at age 3, and Nathan, 18 mths, always finds something to get into, but what a cutie.  The 3 of them got me through it. 

  What's really funny is that one year ago after going to bed and crying myself to sleep I woke up in the wee hours and went to my computer.  I needed to email some of my friends and tell them how scared I was and my computer had crashed.  My husband and I went and bought another one 2 days later, but I was so upset that night that I couldn't get on-line.  Tonight I actually was in bed for a while, but decided to get up and make this post and yea!!! my computer still worked.  Hopefully that tells me that 2009 will be a better year all around.  For me it's starting out much better.

  I  hope all the woman this week that get that horrible news  end up doing as well as I did.  Don't give up hope, because there are a lot of BC survivors and I hope to be one of them for many years to come.  God bless ladies and thanks for being there when I needed support.  We are a strong group of woman. Mary