All Late Update

Septemeber is  National Ovarian Cancer Awareness month!
i will be trying to wear teal finger nail polish all month long...trying, haha.


now for the update.
yes i know, i haven't updated in a long time.
and unfortunately cancer has been a main event in my life this year again. but not how you think.

first my update. in march i started feeling a tightness on my right side (where i still have an ovary). since i don't mess around with not feeling right anymore i went straight to my family doctor. he didn't want to mess around either. he didn't feel anything on my ovary but wanted to make sure and ordered every ultrasound under the sun. thankfully they all came back normal. when i saw my oncologist he wanted a CT scan just to be sure and that too came back fine. we still can't figure out what is making my side so tight (they think it might be a muscle) but at least it isn't a tumor!

now for the rest of my cancer filled year. my dad went for his first routine colonoscopy earlier in the year. they found some tumors and he had surgery to have them removed. we found out that they were in fact cancerous but luckily they got it all with the surgery and no other treatment was needed. so now he has to have a colonscopy every year and my sister and i will have to start having them once we hit 40. fun.
moral of the story, START HAVING COLONSCOPYS WHEN IT IS RECOMMENDED! that goes out to all of the people who don't go to their routine check-ups.

march was one of the hardest months ever. if you have read my posts you know my friend Kelly helped me a lot during my chemo. she is a high school friend who had breast cancer and knew what i was going through. she had a recurrence when i was going through chemo, so we talked about our treatments and made cancer and chemo jokes to each other because we knew no one else would understand. we even saw the movie 50/50 together and had a great time. in march her cancer progressed to a point where there wasn't anything else they could do and she went into hospice care. i went to visit her in the hospital and then about a week later she passed away. i miss her dearly. this october i am going to remember her by doing the Making Strides Against Breast Care walk here in town. i did the walk with her and a few of her friends last fall. i will post more about that later.

then in august the one thing i never wanted to happen happened, my sister Erica was diagnosed with uterine cancer. i swear for a family who never even thought about cancer until 2 years ago we are sure making up for lost time! anyway she had to have a full hysterectomy. as of right now she is still recovering from that. she sees her oncologist next week to make her chemo radiation schedule. they got all of the cancer in surgery but are doing treatments to make sure it doesn't come back.
i truly never wanted anyone i love to go through this. i was hoping that since i went through it, no one else in my family would have to. i guess that was wishful thinking.

so that is my months and months worth of updates. i'm going to try to keep this more update. i swear.