A much needed update

I'M HOME!!!! 

(well I got home February 23rd but it took awhile to update) 

It feels so good to be home :) 18 days stuck in total confinement is no fun. It really makes you appreciate a simple life at home. 

My Transplant went well and I am now on the road to recovery. 

My mom came down the 1st of February to come help me out. Words will never be enough to express the amount of help she was.  I couldn't have made it through it with out her.  We had LOTS of time to do puzzles, read, watch tv, talk, and teach me how to knit.  She was there when the really tough days were unbearable. Those time's I went right back to when I was 5 and snuggled my mom. There is no one like your Mom when you feel miserable.  Mom I love you so much and am so grateful to my little sisters and Dad for sending her down for a month so she could be with me. {this is one of our sweet puzzles we did. Aren't we super attractive?}

I am now done with CHEMO!!! No more chemo for this girl!! I would say that I am TOTALLY done... but that isn't the case just yet... I found out last week that I will receiving radiation treatments. {BUMMER} but, with this treatment it will give me extra insurance that this nasty cancer won't come back again {So, I can't be to upset } I start next week and will receive treatments everyday for three weeks. 

Many people tell me how well I am handling this challenge. They express how happy I look and that I am going through this like a champ.  Yes, although it may look that way it doesn't mean that I don't  have my hard days.  Its no fun being bald. { I have now last all my eyebrows and eyelashes } If I try to dress up cute there is nothing to hide the shiny bald head of mine.  It kills me that because of all this I can't give my husband kids...  Its bad enough as it is that I have to go through this twice and fight and hope that all the treatments are working. For the rest of my life I will be reminded about cancer and how it stole my gift of giving life.  *BUT* I was told once {by my dear patient, now chemo buddy, Chuck} that to not let chemo and cancer determine how I live my life. I won't let cancer win. I will be happy.  I have a wonderful family, friends, and husband. I couldn't ask for a better life.


I just want to also say ~Thank You~ to everyone. All the prayers have defiantly been felt that last couple months. You guys are the best.