Happy Thanksgiving

I went to the oncologist on Monday and had my blood drawn again. My platelets were normal. So we will say lab error or body error. My guess is body error. My white count was low but it has been since chemo. Probably always will be. So I am good and I will see her in January.

As I sit here today I have so much to be
Thankful for. I thank God everyday I am here and for the strength he gives me. I am so thankful for Brian, Logan and Lindsi. They are my rock. For friends who are family and of course family. I am thankful for life!!!

We are in Houston for the holiday. Brian came in last night and will go home today to work again tomorrow. The kids and I will be here until Sunday. We have so much planned. Yesterday we went to the zoo. To tomorrow we are going to the children's museum to see Santa. We will go back to the zoo tomorrow night for zoo lights. Saturday we are going to get dressed up and go to the theater and watch little house on the prairie Christmas. While we are dressed up we are going to go to a fancy restaurant as Logan likes to call it. Somewhere probably Friday we will have to fit in chuck e cheese!

I wish each and everyone of you a blessed day! Love to all!!!

What a year so far...........

                                               Logan & Lindsi's first day of Kindergarten

I have started to write this a thousand times and just haven't gotten to it.  February 20 was my 3 year anniversary.  Hard to believe three years.  Seems at times like 10.  Everything was going good when I saw the oncologist in July she said she wouldn't do anymore scans unless necessary.  They will just keep an eye on my blood.  Then today I get a call from GYN.  I went to have a routine blood drawn because I have my annual after thanksgiving.  They said my cholesterol is high which is normal then they said I needed to call my oncologist because my platelets were low.  I got them and they want me to come Monday to have my blood drawn again there at Texas Oncology.  I know deep down it is all going to be fine.  It just sucks going through this and having the worry.  They want me to wait on the results Monday which I have no problem doing.  I want to know what is going on.  Hopefully we can say lab error.  I had a total hysterectomy the first of June.  I was glad to get it done and not have to worry about those parts getting cancer.  Plus the monthly upside!!  I think that is all medically.

We bought land in town (1 1/2 acres) in February.  They started building our house in April.  I will put a picture as soon as I upload a newer one.  We moved in the end of July.  We are loving the house and the L's have their own room now.  They shared a room at first and after a few weeks Lindsi moved out and they have never gone back.  They love having their own space. 

They started Kindergarten.  I can't believe it.  My babies aren't babies anymore.  They love school and hate to miss for any reason.  I went one day to get them early to take them to the pep rally and they didn't want to miss class.  I hope that always continues.  Logan played T-ball this last summer.  Lindsi is taking tumbling every Monday in Dublin and really loves it.  She wants to be able to do all the flips.  Logan has been playing fall soccer.  His last game is tomorrow.  He likes it and can't decide if he wants to play again next year or play flag football.  I vote soccer although some of his games this year were almost like tackle soccer.  We will leave that up to him.  I know he is going to play coach pitch little league this spring.  He can't wait. 

I am still keeping J'lee and have started keeping Gunner Mahan.  It keeps me busy while the kids are at school.  They are the two sweetest little things.  Well J'lee isn't little anymore she is 18 mos old.  Gunner is nearly 4 months old.  Someone asked me if it made me want to have another baby.  My response was NO.  I love having them but I am glad my kids are the age they are.  I don't want to start over...

That is all I think of at the moment.  My brain is tired.  I will try to be better about updating.  So much going on with Logan and Lindsi.  I forgot they had their first school play the other day.  It was about the first thanksgiving.  Logan was an Indian and Lindsi was a pilgrim.  So cute but the school thanksgiving dinner was awful.  I forgot about school food.......  I will end with that.

Love to all!!!!!

Stock Show, Dr Appt & 20 years!

The Ft Worth Stock Show turned pink....  We went to the stock show on Tuesday because it was the Susan G Komen Day.  Logan finally got a cowboy hat and he loves it.  Now he wants to wear his boots and hat everywhere.  As you can see they both loved the tractors.  I think they had to sit on every color.  There was also a gator they wanted and a 4 wheeler.  The 4 wheeler was blue and Lindsi said she didn't want a blue one she wanted a pink one.  Like we were getting one.  They were $2,000.00.......

Wednesday was our 20 year anniversary!  20 years wow.... It has been an amazing 20 years and I can't wait to see what the next 50 have in store for us.  We celebrated with appointments.  That is our life though.  Logan had an eye appt to ck his progress since we have been putting the drop in his good eye.  It is working.  His bad eye was 20/50 and now it is 20/40.  We will keep putting the drops in and he goes back in May.  Well they both go back in May for a check up.  I also had an appointment for physical therapy.  My arm is improving.  The Lymphedema is going down.  I think the night sleeve is doing the trick.  It should as much as it cost.   Logan is missing 2 more teeth.  The top two are gone now.  They have been loose for 6 months and were starting to buck out so we helped get them out. It has only been a little over a week and one has already started to come back in.  The tooth fairy had to visit us two days in a row.  I just couldn't torture him and pull them both the same day.  So he will have 4 permanent teeth.  He also has 2 of his 6 year molars now and the other two are swollen.  Poor Lindsi hers are all still attached.  I think after we pulled his she is glad, although she was sure enjoying us doing it to Logan. 

Update on the land.... The surveyor has been there and hopefully we can get everything wrapped up and it will be ours in the next few weeks.  We are going to talk to Tilson this next week and get things started there.  We already know which house we are going to build we just need to get the paper work started. 

Have a Great Day!!!

This is an AWESOME song!

I'm Gonna Love You Through It - Martina McBride

You might want to grab a tissue. This song is amazing. It talks of a journey with breast cancer and a husbands love. As the three year mark approaches for diagnosis day, I remember that day like it was yesterday. Our world changed that day.........

SGK & Disney Vacation

Hello again.... I have to apologize... I was reading over my blog yesterday and last year I told you we were going to Disney on vacation but never updated about it or the SGK Race...  I don't know why unless it is because we moved not long after we got back.  I guess I should of blogged from Disney.  Well, now I have it on my phone so the next vacation I will. 

Susan G Komen Race for the Cure - San Antonio, April 30, 2011

We had an awesome time at the walk and in San Antonio.  It is an amazing event.  We will go to one every year....  Thank you to everyone who came to walk with us.

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Now our vacation September 17-24, 2011

We drove to Disney World...  We stopped in Mobile Alabama at Battleship Memorial Park.  It was so neat.  We took a tour of the battleship USS Alabama and the submarine USS Drum.  If anyone is ever that way I recommend stopping.  We continued on our way and spent the night in Destin Florida.  The sand there is amazing.  It feels like powdered sugar and is so white.  I wish we could of spent more time playing on the beach.  The next day we were off to Orlando... We stayed one night at the Nickelodeon Suites Resort.  The pool there was awesome. The kids could of played there for hours.  We went to the character breakfast and ate with Dora, Diego, Pablo (Backyardigans) & Sponge Bob.  Then we were off to Disney.  It is only a few miles down the road so it didn't take long.  We got to our hotel, Disney All Star Movie Resort, and their computer was down so they couldn't check us in but were able to give us tickets to go to the park.  We started at Disney's Animal Kingdom.  We had a great time there.  We saw the parade and the Lion King show which was awesome!!! That is where we did all the character pictures in case we couldn't find them at the other parks.  We saw Donald, Goofy, Minnie & Micky.  We headed back to our hotel where they were able to check Anne in but not us.  It was just one of those things.  They tried and had to redo the reservation and redo and redo...... Anyway they said they have this happen once in a while but not to the extent it happened to us.  Finally after a few hours we were checked in.  The only thing I thought was kind of something was they never offered us anything for the inconvenience.  Oh well..... That was behind us and the next day we went to Magic Kingdom to Cinderella's Castle for the Character Breakfast.  Lindsi loved it... Logan and Brian not so much but they were there. We saw Cinderella, Snow White, Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Ariel and Belle.   We rode some rides and then Logan became a pirate.  Lindsi was supposed to but she changed her mind.  Logan went to The Pirate's League and got a complete makeover.  He really liked that. We saw the parade and headed back to our hotel to get in the pool.  The next day we went to Disney's Hollywood Studios.  We did the character breakfast at Hollywood & Vine.  We saw Agent Oso, Leo & June (Einsteins) and Handy Manny. We rode the toy story ride which was great.  After that Lindsi & I stood in line to meet Woody & Buzz.  Logan wanted to see them he just didn't want to stand in line for an hour.  We went to see Beauty and the Beast.  The show was great but it was hot.... After that we went to the hotel to swim.  They were having a contest out at the pool throwing water balloons.  Logan wanted to do it so we did.  We tied for 1st place.  Logan & I make a great team.  It started raining so we missed the fireworks show.  We will have to go back I guess...  That night Logan got his real chesty cough.  When we left Disney the next day we were going to Georgia but changed our plans because we needed to get him home.  We drove 13 hours the first day and stayed in Jackson Mississippi.  We made it home the next day after dark.  We got him home and started breathing treatments and took him to the Dr on Monday.  At least he didn't get sick until the end.  We can't wait to go back.  Lindsi and I really want to go at Christmas when it is all decorated.  We love Christmas.  I think that is it.  Here are a few pictures.  We took a little over 300 so I can't post them all. 

Destin

Happy New Year!!!!!!

Hello everyone, I have so much to tell.  In my last post I promised to fill you in and just haven't had time.  Logan and Lindsi both have glasses.  Logan has astigmatism in one eye.  They made the glasses lens on the good eye strong to blur it so he would have to see with the bad eye.  Well we went back for his 3 month check up and the good eye had just adjusted it self so he wasn't seeing any better.  They sent home drops for the good eye to dilate it.  So we put one drop in every day to keep it dilated which makes it blurry so he has to use the other eye.  He sees the eye Dr in a few weeks to see if it is working.  Lindsi's muscles strain in her eyes like mine.  They put some really strong glasses on her. The hope is since she is so young that as her eyes grow they will fix and when she is a teenager she won't have to wear glasses anymore. They said at her 3 month checkup that she is doing good.  They are loving school.  They still don't like to get up so early but once they are awake they are ready to go.  They got sick right before school was out and didn't get well until new year's.  Lindsi had a double ear infection and wheezing.  Logan's lungs were crackling and he had bronchitis.  They both had an awful cough and were doing breathing treatments.  Christmas Logan was running fever and then one day he threw up for several hours.  So much fun.... Anyway 3 trips to the Dr and a slew of meds, they are well!!!! 

Now on to me and Brian, I had a shot of Zoladex in August and another one in November.  The hope was it would put me in menopause and drop my estradiol levels.  Well, I am in menopause and the cysts are gone but.... My estrogen levels aren't as low as they should be.  They aren't over 2000 like before but they should be less than 25 and they are 40.  I am going to get the shot one more time in February and then I will have a total hysterectomy the end of May.  The shot costs $3000 every 3 months and my part is $500 which is horrible but we needed to do it.  So I was wavering back and forth on what to do.  Well, my body decided for me.  Save the money and have the surgery.  Since I had a hormone positive tumor I really don't need to much estrogen.  I will meet with my GYN in March to get everything ready for surgery.  If they decide I need to do it sooner I will but the hope is the week after the kids get out of school.  I will have to stay in the hospital at least one night since he will do a total hysterectomy.  Other than that everything looks good. Like I said the cysts are gone and my blood is staying within what is a new normal for me.  My white count is low but not to bad. 

We sold our house in October are now camping at Sue's old house.  Most everything we own went to storage until we get a new house.  It is so nice living close to town.  The kids get to sleep a bit later which makes them happier.  We haven't been able to find a house so we are going to buy land and build.  Hopefully we will get everything finalized in January so they can start the building process.  Our hope is to have a house by July or August at the latest.  It would be nice if it was done by the kids birthday and we could have a birthday(moving) party.  We could say we are having a birthday party and oh be sure to wear old clothes and bring a pickup.  Haha.......  Anyway, everything is working out well. 

Now I have sad news, a few weeks ago Gus choked on a bone he drug up from somewhere and Brian had to shoot him.  Then tonight Du got hit by a car.  I was sad about Gus but more so about Du.  We have had him 12 years.  Gus was 11 months old.  We still have our sweet Sophie.  I know I called her a big pain in the behind before but she is sweet now.

One more thing and I will go. Brian and I will celebrate our 20 year anniversary on January 25th. It has been an amazing 20 years. I am looking forward to the next 50.......... I almost forgot, I got the most amazing present from my husband and kids for my birthday & Christmas. It is a pair of fat baby boots (see picture).  I love them........

1st day of School & Oncologist

1st Day of Preschool August 23, 2011

The kids started to school this week.  They are going on the T days.  Tuesday & Thursday from 7:45 to 12:00.  They are really enjoying it. Logan was most excited about doing science.  I don't think anything exciting has happened yet though.  If it has they forgot to tell me.  They don't like getting up at 6:30 but who really does.  Brian would love to get up then.  That would mean he got to sleep in. 

I saw the oncologist today.  She said I am doing good.  Clear scans and no troubles other than the cysts.  She talked to the GYN oncologist about my estradiol levels and showed them the sono of my ovaries and uterus. They handle uterine cancer and ovarian cancer and they said they didn't see any cause for concern.  So we now have a plan.....  I started taking the tamoxifen again tonight because I really need to be on something to block the estrogen receptors.  Monday I go get a shot to put me in menopause.  Her hope is that once my ovaries are completely shut down that the cysts will just go away and my estrogen levels will level out.  I will go back in 3 months and get another shot and blood work.  I can't remember for sure what the name of the shot is.  I forgot to write it down.  I will find out on Monday.  So for now NO surgery which is fine with me if the cysts go away.  I have another sono scheduled for November too. 

I will post again on Monday.  I will let you know what we find out about the kids eyes.  Have a great weekend!!