In just a few short hours it will be Thursday June 26th in which we will celebrate Luke's Birthday! We have big plans for the week. He has been celebrating all week. We are hoping the weather will cooperate so we can visit the zoo for the first time this year and then out for lunch at his favorite train restaurant. Our big Birthday celebration is supposed to take place on Saturday. Luke has invited several friends for a party at our house. We rented a big inflatable and plan on having the kids just play outside in the pool and the sprinklers, see the horses, etc. As of right now the weather isn't looking favorable. They're calling for rain! :( So Luke has been praying all day that God will not let it rain on his Birthday party day!
I can't find the words to describe the blessing that he is to our lives. Luke has always blessed us. He was a good baby from the start. He's never really given us a real tough time. Don't get me wrong he's still rotten at times. We know that through all we've experienced in the last year that God has given us our strength but Luke keeps are heads' up. He has such a humor about him. Several times throughout the day he has us just laughing uncontrollably. He's just an absolute riot! As I sit here and try to find the words to describe the pure joy he brings to our lives tears are just running down my face. I can be having an absolutely terrible day and when he walks in the room his smile just lights up my world!
I want to live for many reasons but Luke makes me fight this cancer 100x harder. No matter where this journey takes me I just pray that Luke will know how much I love him. I will always know that I have been blessed to have the two greatest men/boys I have ever known in my life.
Luke, I love you more than ten thousand worlds!!!!!
XOXO
MOM
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
9 Down ?? to go.
I finished up round #9 of chemo this past Friday. It went okay. It was still chemo. I'm feeling well right now and finally back to "normal." I know it's been awhile since the last time I posted something and so much as been going on since then. For one we had my mom's surprise 50th Birthday party and that was great! The last time I wrote I was doing okay emotionally with this *&%#@. and then not so well. I think all the talk about Senator Kennedy and his brain tumor may have triggered it. Everyone was talking about the statistics and what not. All the "experts" were on T.V. giving their grim expectations for his survival and the survival of brain cancer. It also occurred to me that when they removed my tumor they said that they hope for it not to come back for 2 to 3 years and I realized it will be one year pretty soon. That definitely had me panicked. Let's just say I had a real setback for a few weeks or so. I was starting to believe I was going to die tomorrow. Well thank the Lord I have a much better outlook now. I'm feeling much more positive and more determined than ever that I WILL WIN THIS BATTLE.
This weekend is Relay For Life. I hope everyone who is able to will support this. Cancer sucks and we need more knowledge, more studies, more survivors! I've done a lot of research on cancer and survivor-ship since my diagnosis. I don't know if mine could have been prevented but I have learned that there is a lot we can do ourselves to lessen our chances. So I am strongly encouraging everyone to educate yourselves. Eat right, exercise, and read the word of God (all that about the eating and such is actually right there).
Last but surely not Least, a tribute to all the "Mike's" out there. Cancer surely is miserable for the one with the diagnosis but it's miserable for those who are there with you. Those of us with cancer get the sympathy and the prayers but sometimes forgotten is the one who is holding our hand the whole way! Mike is the one who carries all the weight on his shoulders. Holding up his job, a side job, a rowdy little boy, a sick wife, a home, and trying to be the strong one all the time. His burdens are not the same but just as big. I'm also blessed with a mom who would give me a new brain if she could and a family that would do anything to "fix" this. I also have found that I have great friends. I read once in some cancer book that your friendships will change throughout this and it was right. Some friendships have faded and others have been made so strong. Each and every person who stands by someone who is fighting cancer is truly fighting cancer too. So THANK YOU to ALL of you!!
So long for now. I hope everyone is enjoying their Summer. We sure are! By the way, I forgot to add Luke is still just as awesome as ever!!!!! CUTE TOO!!!!
Love,
Jessie
This weekend is Relay For Life. I hope everyone who is able to will support this. Cancer sucks and we need more knowledge, more studies, more survivors! I've done a lot of research on cancer and survivor-ship since my diagnosis. I don't know if mine could have been prevented but I have learned that there is a lot we can do ourselves to lessen our chances. So I am strongly encouraging everyone to educate yourselves. Eat right, exercise, and read the word of God (all that about the eating and such is actually right there).
Last but surely not Least, a tribute to all the "Mike's" out there. Cancer surely is miserable for the one with the diagnosis but it's miserable for those who are there with you. Those of us with cancer get the sympathy and the prayers but sometimes forgotten is the one who is holding our hand the whole way! Mike is the one who carries all the weight on his shoulders. Holding up his job, a side job, a rowdy little boy, a sick wife, a home, and trying to be the strong one all the time. His burdens are not the same but just as big. I'm also blessed with a mom who would give me a new brain if she could and a family that would do anything to "fix" this. I also have found that I have great friends. I read once in some cancer book that your friendships will change throughout this and it was right. Some friendships have faded and others have been made so strong. Each and every person who stands by someone who is fighting cancer is truly fighting cancer too. So THANK YOU to ALL of you!!
So long for now. I hope everyone is enjoying their Summer. We sure are! By the way, I forgot to add Luke is still just as awesome as ever!!!!! CUTE TOO!!!!
Love,
Jessie
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