I'm a survivor!

As of today, I am now a survivor of breast cancer!!  I have finished my treatments and Dr. Hargis gave me a positive report!  So now onto my new life.  All I can think about is the song from Survivor: Eye of the Tiger.  I have gone the distance and now I am back on my feet! watch the video in case you don't remember this song from back in the day! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEjgPh4SEmU
I feel like it is kinda like being reborn,  the old is gone and the new has come.  As I look back at what me and my family has been through, I feel renewed.
So I have planned to have my port removed in the next few weeks and my mammogram is scheduled for August 28th.
It was a celebration at the infusion center today as I was not the only one celebrating my last treatment.  The nurses also celebrate when we survive!! I got confetti, a song and a certificate of completion!!  I think I will frame it with the one from radiation.  Kinda like a battle award. A reminder to me that I can get through anything and how strong I can be in the face of defeat.

So my favorite Bible verse has brought me to this point and I have renewed strength, soaring on wings like eagles!! Isaiah 40: 28-31
"Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."

Love to all,

 the best nurses EVER!!!

Tracy the best nurse!!

the last time

Tomorrow is the last treatment I will have for this dang cancer F-O-R-E-V-E-R!!! I am so glad this will be over. I just pray my port works tomorrow as it is suppose to!! The last 3 treatments it has been clogged and they had to give me medication to de-clog it.  My MUGA scan was good and my heart is in good shape and now all that is left is my mammogram follow up.  I guess I will be scheduling that for August.
God is so good to me and my family.  He has done miraculous things in my life and especially this past year. Even though he said NO to me about my biopsy being negative, He has a greater plan for me.  God has pulled me through this trial in my life to show me how to lean on him and trust him through it all, not just in the good times.
He has taught me through out this to rely on my friends and family to help take care of me.  I can't always be the one to take care of everyone else, sometimes you have to be the one taken care of.  Oh how that was a hard lesson for me to learn. But they never let me down and I was taken care of physically as well as emotionally.
I started this blog a year ago to help me through this phase in my life and to tell others about my cancer.  It has helped me getting out my feelings about what I was going through and helped me stay sane.  I plan on keeping this blog going, but it will be about good stuff in my life, and maybe an update here and there about my cancer survival.  I also wanted my blog to help others going through any cancer.  I feel I have done this.
I have met so many new people through out this and am grateful for that. My nurse Tracey, at Lousiville Oncology is awesome and I will miss seeing her and our talks.  I won't miss sitting in that chair getting stuck by a needle!!!
James 1:12 "Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him."
I have been through this testing in my life. Some days were not so good and I feel I failed those days, but my Jesus forgives when I ask him and I lay my cross down again another day.

Thank you to everyone and.....
Love to all,

life at last

I feel as if my life is slowing returning back to me.  My hair is growing back (if baby girl doesn't make me loose it from the stress of driving!!), and curlier than ever!  I am feeling good.  Losing weight.  Getting smarter (from school I think!). I think about all the other people in my life still in their journey or just starting their journey and just pray for them.  Is is bad for me to think that I am so glad I am almost done with all of my treatment?  I am happy that I only have one more treatment but feel bad for thinking this.  I feel I should wait for celebration until we all are done and then have a HUGE party to celebrate together!!

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 "Be joyful always; Pray continually; Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."

I am enjoying my new life.  Living each day to the fullest  Loving my family and my friends.
Loving God and learning to get closer to Him.
Continue to pray for me and my family.  There is still a little tough road ahead....keeping our faith and trust that God has gotten rid of all the cancer.  I will have my mammogram sometime in the next month.  Please keep fear away so that my faith will stand strong!!

Love to all,

1 more!!

I am sitting here finishing up my second to the last treatment!!  ONE MORE LEFT!!! after this one.  I can't believe that it is almost done.  It has been a long year with everything.  My hopes is that my experience can touch and help others through their battles.

1Corinthians 15:10
"But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me"

Love to all,