I'm Here. Might As Well Win.: Josh, Noelene and Robert In Town!

Monday, November 7, 2011

Josh, Noelene and Robert In Town!

I finally got to meet Robert this weekend! As happy as Kevin is to be in Uruguay, I know he's disappointed to miss meeting Robert. Not that Robert did much. He mostly ate and slept the whole time and didn't seem to mind being passed around from loving arms to loving arms all weekend! What a trooper! Deadly cute, too.

Noelene looks great! Both she and Josh have this whole baby thing cased! Naturals! Easy peasy!

Noelene's parents will be coming from South Africa to Yellowknife to meet Robert in January. First, though, they're going to be in Japan for the birth of another new grandchild in ... probably ... early December. Then they'll visit another daughter and her family in France for a few weeks before they get to Yellowknife.

Whenever anyone, including myself, laments about how far away their kids are, I think of Noelene's parents. I can't even imagine! And they are so graceful about it.

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Breast Cancer (booooo) was the opponent. I hope I won. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2009. I had a sentinel node lumpectomy later that month and on June 10, 2009, I started Chemotherapy followed by radiation treatments - the last one being December 20, 2009.

I thought it was all over. The cancer part seems to be over so far but I hadn't anticipated the awful effects of Arimidex (the aromatase inhibitor/estrogen blocker) that I started taking after chemo. The effects were long lasting and really awful. And then both my shoulders became frozen. I see that frozen shoulder is not uncommon for women who have been through breast cancer treatments but nobody seems to know why. And now I'm on Tamoxifen and there are the side effects from that, which are much milder than I had with Arimidex but at this point I don't know what's caused by either of those drugs or what might be the lingering effects of chemo and radiation. It's a much longer haul than I initially understood.

This blog has been my game's colour commentary starting 6 days before the kick-off of my first chemo treatment. I hope I won. That's the funny thing with cancer, though. You don't know for sure. You just have to be cocky enough to act like you've won.

Everyone who visits here has been on my team (because there's no "I" in "TEAM") and this blog was for them to to follow the game plan and the progress. It turned out it's also been therapy for me and a record of so many details I forget because of the also unanticipated "chemo brain". One thing I know for sure is that I wouldn't have made it through this without my team of family and friends. Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU!! We're here. We Might Have WON!!

To learn the details about my particular discovery of my tumour and my diagnosis and treatment, please read this.

If you're more interested in my new quilting hobby, visit my blog that's supposed to be JUST about quilting at Peace.Love.Quilt.

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