One More!!!!

It's been quiet around here! I haven't been good about posting updates and I apologize for that, but honestly, this "chemo brain" thing, well, it's REAL and it sucks and it makes me feel like I can barely function mentally at times and staring at the computer screen and attempting to type something halfway meaningful is about the last thing I want to do!

So instead of trying to be witty or deep or any of that, I'm just going to tell you this: I HAVE ONE MORE ROUND OF CHEMO TO GO!!!! HOPEFULLY EVER!!!!! My last round of chemo {providing that everything goes as planned} is Friday, October 25th. I am hoping to do a little something special to acknowledge this milestone and to give thanks for how blessed our family has been through this process, so be looking out for that on the blog!

Even though chemo is coming to an end, the process of getting well and staying well is far from over. Following chemo, I will have surgery {scheduled right now for November 15th}, after surgery, we will find out if I need radiation {we are REALLY hoping for a complete response so that I do not need radiation}, and then I will be on some kind of anti-hormonal for the next 10 years......wow. Sigh, it's not just pretty pink ribbons is it?

Now, enough with the cancer talk, I want to show you all what we have been doing to GET BUSY LIVING in the midst of all of this crap, because honestly, THIS is what really really matters ----> GETTING well, STAYING well, and LIVING well!

• Daddy has been on "furlough" due to being contracted by the government, so we have been able to spend some unexpected family time together! Here are our silly sweet boys being bribed with ice cream to take a decent picture. :~)

• We welcomed a new sweet baby girl into our family, my beautiful niece, Alina. 

•  We hosted our 2nd annual pumpkin carving party, a little early and the pumpkins are already rotting, but OH WELL!

• And, I got the opportunity to take 1st birthday pictures of this sweet little lady. :~)

There have been many more moments and memories over the past few weeks, we really are living well, even in the midst of this storm.

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If you are wondering where to send your prayers/ energy this week, here you go!

1. That the cancer is being eradicated from my body NEVER to return again {of course!}.
2. That my lab work looks good {especially those pesky liver levels!} and we stay on course for my FINAL chemo treatment on Friday the 25th.
3. That I have a COMPLETE RESPONSE and do not need radiation!
4. That the side effects remain manageable and that maybe Dr. K WASN'T bluffing when he told me that I would "feel better IMMEDIATELY after I am done with treatment". ;~)
5. That we continue to GET BUSY LIVING and keep making sweet memories!

Thank you everyone! XO