Strong & Courageous

You haven’t heard from me in a great while. My silence is good news because I’m doing very well. I’ve had little to report. Nearly eighteen months have passed since my breast cancer diagnosis. My final chemotherapy treatment was on my 47th birthday (December 20, 2010). I completed radiation treatmen

I confess that I’m not really a show party kind of girl; although, I do like Pampered Chef products better than other show party options. If you’ve invited me to a Creative Memories, Usborne Books, or Mary Kay party, chances are, I didn’t come. But I’m hoping you’ll come to my Pampered Chef party an

Do you remember this? The surgical placement of the subcutaneous port was anticipated to be a non-event. I was told I could drive myself to and from the hospital, that I’d feel just peachy following the procedure. It turned out to be one of the most miserable of days of the past eight months. My mot

Boniva? Really? Isn’t Sally Field something like 95 years old? Why am I taking Boniva? I took my first dose this morning. You have to sit upright for 60 minutes afterwards. You can’t eat anything before or for 60 minutes after the dose other than eight ounces of “plain” water (not to be confused wit

14 down. Five to go. I go for radiation Monday through Friday, usually at 1:00 p.m. One of the radiation therapists calls me from the waiting room and walks me down the hall, through their control room, and into the therapy room. My name is on one of those binders above the computers and other equip

Today I had my 13th radiation treatment. Only six more to go! I took Lily’s small digital camera with me today so I could show you what the equipment, room, and machine look like. Of course, the camera battery was dead. I’ll try again tomorrow. So far, I have encountered minimal reactions to the rad

I had heard the story many times. How Dad had nervously journeyed from the balcony at the old Tabernacle Baptist Church to the front of the church, responding in faith to Christ. How his older brother Elwood had joined him along the way to stand beside him. However, I had never heard Elwood’s versio

Soon after I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I read an article in Parade Magazine about actor Maura Tierney, better known as Dr. Abby Lockhart on early seasons of ER. She had been diagnosed with and successfully treated for a very aggressive type of breast cancer. The article’s objective was to hi