Because He Loves me!

Woooohooo!!  Chemotherapy is done!  Two weeks ago I finally finished off the 6th and final round of chemo.  I was very tentative about even doing it knowing how it made me feel and not sure if I was able to stand it mentally.  But I did it, I finished, and boy does it feel great!  Such a relief.  Thank you all for praying.  My last two rounds were without allergic reaction and went smoothly.  I have been told that chemo is the toughest part of this whole process, we shall see if that is the truth. Wow how the time flies.  It has been six months since I found out I had a cancer and it has been four months of chemo.  I still can't believe half a year has gone by already.  So now that the chemo is done I get a bit of a breather this month and then I have my first surgery scheduled for the 30th of November.  I will be going in for a single masectomy and a lymph node dissection and it will be done here in Hawaii.  I also already have my reconstruction surgery scheduled and that will t

Hi everyone.  Well I just finished round 5 and so far so good with no allergic reactions.  Seems the added steroids and benedryl have done the trick thank you Jesus!  It has been a rough round just because my patience is starting to wear thin with the hazy foggy feeling that leaves me feeling a bit like going crazy for the week.  It has me ready to nix the last round of chemo that I have left.....yes yes I know just one more, hold it together and get it done!  We'll see..... Today I am doing much better though and got out of the house which was very much needed! Our trip to Minnesota was good but we didn't get the news that we were hoping for.  We had this whole timeline already planned out to get my surgeries back to back in November but were informed that that can't be the case.  I guess that I have to have radiation in between the surgeries which is something we are still looking in to right now.  We aren't sure why they have to radiate the breast wall if it is goi

Wow a month has almost gone by since my last post.  There is lots to catch up on!  I have since finished round three and four of my chemo regiment and let me say they were not without hiccups along the way.  Round three was really tough for me, the nausea was horrible.  I felt like I was pregnant all over again with that need to eat all the time yet nothing would satisfy that feeling of needing to almost throw up....yet no baby in the end, bummer...!  I also had to go to the ER due to my hands, feet, face, and eyes swelling up.  They gave me a CT to rule out a very rare and serious complication with the port and  blood clots.  The scans came back clear and my oncologist said that it was likely an allergic reaction so he put me on steroids and benedryl and that did the trick.  For round four I got on top of the nausea and started taking the nausea meds before I felt sick and yes!  No nausea.  I though again was rushed to the ER one night when my throat started to swell shut, that was a

I just wanted to post just a little note on how things are going right now and how you can be praying for us.  Today I went in for my 3rd chemo session.  I am half way done with the chemo part, woo hoo!  I will be going in for an ultra sound next Tuesday to see if the lump has shrunk at all.  So please be praying that it will be a positive outcome, would love to go in and have them find no lump! As chemo is getting closer to being done, don't get me wrong I still have another two months to go, but now is the time for us to look into surgeons for my surgeries.   As I have researched the different options for plastic surgery to reconstruct I have come across one that produces the best results with the least amount of side effects.  It is called the diep flap surgery and it tends to be the most complicated one to do, so therefore not many doctors do it.  And with being on a small island my options are very limited and they don't offer that surgery here.  So this means that if I

So a lot of you have already heard this story from a few weeks ago but I wanted to post it for those who have not because it again is the proof of the Father's love for us! A few weeks ago, the night before I was to head into my second chemo session, I was awoken at 2am to the sound of banging on the front door.  So I shook Aaron awake and he went to the door where two cops were outside waiting.  They said that someone had placed a 911 call from this residence.  We told them that we don't have a landline, just cell phones.  But they said that the call came from here and it could have been one of the cell phones, but both were accounted for in our room and we sure hadn't used them since we were peacefully sleeping.  So they apologized and left.  Aaron and I had been out of the room for maybe 5 minutes and when we walked in we smelt this horrible smell like something was burning.  Then we noticed that the ac unit had shut off while we were out of the room.  Aaron bent down