My life changed dramatically on Mother's Day 2013. Three days later I was diagnosed with cancer from my physician. This blog was made to keep my family and friends informed to what has been happening to me the past few weeks. When I find out news from different Doctor's through all of the procedures I have had, so many of you have wanted me to text, email, call, or someway contact you. It humbles me how many of you are concerned. Sometimes I forget to contact some of you. This way, you can stay in touch with what is happening now. Please feel free to comment. I hope I have it set up so you can. If not, I will ask Emily my daughter to help me, since she helped me get this set up.

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Ava and the ice cream cone


This is my granddaughter Ava.  A couple of days ago I took her to lunch.  We were sitting there eating, and she got a free ice cream cone with her meal.

After she ate her meal, they brought her cone out.  She was licking on it and was having such a fun time going out to lunch with Grammy.

Then she said,

AVA: "Grammy....would you like a lick of my ice cream cone?"

ME: "Sure, thank you", I said.

As soon as I took a lick, Ava looked up at me with those beautiful eyes, and said.

AVA: "Grammy.  You still have cancer don't you!" (more as a statement than a question.)

ME: "Yes, I do."  I couldn't understand why that all of a sudden came out.  Then it dawned on me.

ME: " Do you know that you can't get cancer from me if I lick your ice cream cone?"

She happily looked at me and smiled.

Wow!  That was some serious stuff.  My granddaughter thought she could get cancer by sharing with me, and still offered me a taste of her ice cream cone.  How humbling was that?

Then she said.

AVA:  "How old are you going to be when you die with cancer?"

ME:  "Probably 109 years old."

AVA: " Wow Grammy.  I will be 20 and Capri will be 10"!!!!

I got such a kick out of that.  Capri is 10 months and Ava is 5.  You gotta love kids.  They are Gods gift to us for sure.
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Saturday, July 19, 2014

My summer

I haven't written much lately.  Things have been going well with me, with the exception of my sore feet, hands and tongue, as always.  My hair is growing so, so slowly while taking chemo, and I just want it to get long enough to have it cut in some sort of short style, but it still isn't.  I am going to have to learn to figure out curly hair when I have to start fixing my hair.  But right now, I just throw a hat on.  It's cool though for the summer.

Dr. Klein called and wants me to start taking iron.  My blood showed something going on, so I need iron.  I am picking it up today at the pharmacy.

I have had such a great summer so far.  Fun family reunions, and get-togethers, a trip to Vegas, Arizona, and Montana.  It has been fun.  I think our summer trips are over now.  It's been great!
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