We do cancer together.

Ours is a family affair, together, the three of us, each have our own unique journey with cancer to deal with.
 Yes, much has happened since this time last year! First, we found out that my husbands two cancers were in remission! Yeah, did we celebrate! But not for long! Getting thru Follicilar Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, stage 4 and Stomach Cancer (adenocarcinoma stage 2 a) turned out to be enough of a high to get us through the devastating news that our beautiful Blue Tic Coonhound, Savannah, had nasal carcinoma. She was given 2 months to live..you know, no one should ever give another human a date of demise....it's just wrong...they don't get a sneak peak at the date of death tag  that's tied to our toe! It also gave us enough hope to get thru what was our next shocking news. My MRI showed a tumor in my right peretal/occipital lobe of my brain. Brain surgery on November 7th of 2012, and a lovely resection later, showed that my tumor was an oligodendroglioma. (i remembered the name because God is right in the middle of it ) A stage 2 brain cancer. Even just writing this out is enough to make my head hurt! I'm going to sleep now, just fell asleep! Blessings to you and yours!To be continued tomorrow.

Change, change and more change.

10:30 and I'm already in bed. Its been a long, kind of heartwarming day and Im exhausted! Suddenly, and out of the blue, restlessness takes over. I play a few rounds of Candy Crush....boring! So I decided to look up my old blog.  The Weeping Jar. It was a little painful reading a few entries, partially because it was painful living thru those early days of my husbands cancer treatment, but also because, well.... I couldn't keep it up! I had really wanted to become a blogger. I dreamed of documenting this part of our life, hoping that it might help me because it's such a cool avenue to let it all out, in, and secretly hoping that it might help other cancer patients and their caregivers too! Just knowing that someone else can get thru it all, without too many war wounds, really does boost the spirits. I had learned that reaching out to others when your going thru it yourself, makes life easier in many ways.
Easier, if it works with your current situation....easier if you can keep up with it, easier if it lifts your spirit. For me at this time last year it wasn't doing any of that. It was not easy, and so I had to let it brew on the back burner.
Ok, now I'm really tired so, I'm off to sleep! More to come! Blessings to you and yours!