Christmas Cheer to All!

It has been so long since I have updated this blog...please accept my apologies.

It was necessary to have radiation. So...I finished my 33rd treatment in September. When I visited my plastic surgeon last month, she was amazed and indicated that it doesn't even look like I've had any radiation. That's quite a feet for a fair, thin-skinned girl. She is so pleased that instead of having to wait 1 to 1-1/2 years after having radiation to have breast reconstruction, I will begin the process in March! That's right, just 6 months after. Talk about miracles and blessings.

I am still having weekly chemo treatments, but the worst side effect is sleepiness the day of chemo due to the benedryl I'm given before each treatment so I won't have any allergic reactions. I will be done with these treatments in August. I have to have 48 total treatments. Then it's on to an oral form of Chemo for 5-years. The good news...No cancer!

My fingers and feet go numb several times a day and I have lost my fingernails three, I've counted them, three times now. But the good news...No cancer!

God is so good to me. As strange as it may sound, having cancer has been a tremendous blessing in my life. Deut. 8 speaks of God taking the Isrealites thru the desert (wilderness) to humble them, test them, to see if they would be faithful. He reminds us that he took care of them during the wilderness and calls us to remember him in the good times. That is one of my favorite chapters in the Bible. I believe God has brought me through the wilderness to humble me and teach me many things and now I need to remember Him and celebrate Him in the good times too. I do not know why God has chosen to spare my life when many others passs, but I do know that I love the Lord and intend to give him the glory for what he has done in my life.

I thank each and every one of you for your prayers and support and I hope you will all continue to pray for the doctors who will perform the breast reconstruction surgeries this next year and that I will remain cancer-free.