February 2010

February 2010

My mom and brother came out to visit for some Music auditions for Ryan. :) Well my mom was here we went to the place I got Chemo to thank the nurses who helped me. We brought them a loaf of Great Harvest Bread and reflected on my time spent there.

I brought some of my scarfs and hats I was giving that I didn't need anymore. I felt that another cancer patient could use them.

My sweet brother Ryan text in at a Jazz game and won an autographed Korver jersey. I was giving him a hard time that he should give it to me and the whole time he was planning no it!!! :) He is the best ever, I LOVE HIM!

My mom and grandma stopped by my office to visit me before my mom went back to WI!!! I love having my family come visit!

Three generations going strong BABY!!!

February was also the month I decided to get a little more brave and venture outside of the house. :) I was sick of always being invited to go out with my friends and always having to say no because I didn't feel good. So, I buckled down on a couple of occasions and WENT OUT!

I realized I didn't really have a good picture of my steps like I thought I did!!! DUMB! So this one will have to do!

January 2010

Fantastic Brazilian Lemonade! :)

January 2010

Time for a new year and a new start!!! In January it was 5 months since my how battle began! I started to have more increased pain in my abdomen but didn't really think much of it. I went to see Dr. Jolles who did my second surgery about the pain and for a check up. I mentioned to him what would be the possibility of just having a full hysterectomy to avoid having more issues and to get rid of the pain. He suggested against it since he wanted me to have the ability to have children. I went in for an ultrasound and it showed something on my left side again where my left ovary use to be and then my right ovary was the size of a grapefruit. Either there was another tumor inside or there was a bled into the ovary due to my blood thinners. Who knows! I didn't feel comfortable about what I was being told so I felt that I needed to keep searching for answers.

The best part of January was Bobbie Boeing and Trevor Siegman coming out to Utah to visit! :) We met up, including Tricia Koch, in SLC and went to The Pie. It was so fun to be around friends I grew up with and just talk about old times. I knew that I could be myself around them and they would not look at me as some sick cancer patient! :)

The next day I drove to Park City to meet the WI crew and hang out with the day. We went to the Outlets and just had a blast!!! Afterwords we went back to SLC to go to Tucanos!!! :) That food there is so good!!!! After dinner... why not drive down to Provo and hang out?! We ended up going over to Devin and Lori Abe's house and played the Wii!!! It seriously was the best weekend ever and was exactly what I needed!!!!

Trevor and the "homeless" that got him!

All of us around the cozy fire at The Gateway

Bobbie and I! :)

All of our shoe purchases in Park City

I LOVE WISCONSIN!!!

Here is a random family photo via iChat! :)

Christmas 2009

Christmas 2009

I would have never of imagined myself bald on Christmas! Sure enough though, I WAS!!! It didn't change anything though. My head a little colder then normal but I was surrounded by family and I could not have asked for more.

Tina and Peter joined us via iChat!!! Best thing ever invented!!!

MELISSA!!!

RYAN!!!

Helping Dad put the new TV in! :)

More pictures of Christmas Time...

My Gram Cracker House!!! No one else made one! :)

My Moms cool little village in the piano room!

My back yard!

My attempt at helping my dad shovel the driveway! :)

Time to catch up!!! (December 2009)

I'M BACK!!!

So I have been saying for a while that one day I will finally catch up on my blog... well that one day is TODAY... 4 months later! I wish I could say I have been crazy busy and had no time but in reality I have had a lot of time... just not energy really to write about everything that has happen in the last 4 months. So now its time to go back through my calendar and pictures and tell my story! :)

December 2009

I already wrote a little bit about what happen up until the 20th of December 2009 but I thought I would finish up the year. Since my last Chemo was December 14th it was only a matter of time until I felt the affects from that and it was only a matter of days. I ended up having the worst bone and muscle aches. On the worst night my mom had to sit next to me and hold my hand as she watch my body pretty much seizure in pain. I could do nothing but cry... it was the most intense pain I have ever felt yet I was still able to overcome it and move on!!!!

I was able to meet up with my Best Friend Katie Boschi Clayton and catch up on old times. It was so great to see her and talk with each other about the wonderful past times. We talked a lot about government stuff and work benefits which I never thought we would but I LOVED IT. We went to Applebees and I miss her tons!

Its so hard to imagine myself now without hair back then. :)

WISCONSIN DELLS

On Christmas Eve my mom, dad, Ryan, Melissa and I went to WISCONSIN DELLS!!!! I totally love this place. This time it was harder for me to enjoy it since I was bald and had to get into a swim suit. We stayed at The Wilderness for one night. We were thinking we might have to stay another since we were hit with quite the blizzard that night. I wanted to see if I could make it down a waterside and I was only able to go down once! It was SO hard for me to walk up the stairs. I literally had NO energy and that was for sure something I was not use to since I LOVE WATERSLIDES!  Everyone should experience The Dells atleast once before they die!!!

 

After The Dells we picked up the new family dog, RUSTY!!! He was suppose to be a mini dachshund however I do not think mini was the right classification! He is so cute and way different from Abby!

This is where we picked Rusty up!