Maui or bust

This Friday Greg and I will be boarding an airplane and traveling to Maui for 8 days.  We are going to celebrate our 10 year anniversary.  We have talked about this trip since our honeymoon on Kauai. We booked our trip in December and it's finally go time!

   This last weekend I was going to go have a pedicure when I landed in the ER instead. I developed a blood clot in my right arm called a DVT.  The Maui trip was in limbo.  I immediately was started on blood thinner injections and was instructed to see my oncologist on Monday. I will be on blood thinners for three months and I need to have a procedure this Thursday.

Even though this trip isn't exactly what we had planned I feel extremely blessed to be going.   I can't wait to spend some quality time with my husband.
   

Cancer free, but not free from cancer.

(Don't let the title throw you, I am not in a perpetual state of fear, just realistic about how a cancer diagnosis will impact my life forever.)

    After a long year of surgeries and cancer treatment (chemo sucks) I can finally say I am done!

    What an experience, it's hard to even think about everything that I have gone through.  Honestly some of it I don't want to, so I'll just block it out. One thing that I will always remember is everyone who stood with me, prayed for me and just loved me. If that's you Thank You!

    Life is getting back to "normal" and I feel I can be me again. Even though things are becoming more "normal" I know they will never be the same as before my diagnosis. My kids will ask questions that most won't understand. They become a little different if anyone in the house is sick and in bed. They talk about bald Mommy.  You know the fun stuff. I won't even go into what goes through my mind every time I have a cough. That being said these things do not happen on a daily basis. 

    I think it is safe to say that I am cancer free, but I'll never be free of cancer.