Scanning Photos

I did some photo scans over the weekend and thought I'd share.

A picture of my mom and dad.

Uncle By and you all know me!

The photo is from about a week after my last chemo treatment.

Grandma Gorham around 1917

Grandpa and Grandma Gorham

Almost Friday!!!

Tomorrow I am getting a little trim on my little bitty hair! I am so looking forward to a clean up around my ears and neck....and drum roll.....a little color change! Lauren is going to work her color magic and mix me up a special formula to go with my Victor/Victoria hair do (kind of has a pixie look to it right now). My hair is still only about an inch long but much thicker than before....everything is better with hair!!!!

Eddy heading to Jawbone with friends and I'll be keeping the home front covered. I just wasn't interested in camping with my broken wrist and the lymphedema again. Next time I will be there and riding my ATV again.

For those of you that don't know, I did break my wrist while we were camping in the Mojave riding my ATV and I rode back 15 miles to camp that way (yes, I was crying in my helmet). The wrist is healing and I am being a bad patient by taking the cast off.

Well, time to sit in my lymphedema pump for an hour and relax.
Cheryl

Mojave Photos

The desert is beautiful! The combination of orange, red rock and blue, blue sky made me want to take a ton of pictures. I took these photos with my cell phone and I think they are not half bad (well, except for the finger in the one picture). Eddy and I stopped in Red Rock Canyon, which is a state park off Hwy 14.

After visting Red Rock Canyon, Eddy and I wanted to move our camp but decided against the change since it would have been a great deal of work. On the next visit to the Mojave we can stay at Red Rock Canyon for a couple of nights (before it gets too hot and the snakes come back out).

We actually did all of our camping off Jawbone Canyon Rd. The scenery was not nearly as wonderful as Red Rock Canyon but we could ride the dirt bike and ATV pretty much anywhere we wanted in the area.

Time for a little house cleaning!

Cheryl

Happy New Year!

Yippy, 2009 is finally here and it is going to be a wonderful year!

I fell asleep before midnight, which was kind of a bummer! Next year I will try to make it to midnight.
Cheryl

Merry Christmas

I want to wish everyone a wonderful holiday! Eat, drink and be merry!

Only seven more days until our five year wedding anniversary and the end of this horrible year. I can't remember a time when I was looking so forward to the new year coming around. Come on 2009...hurry up and get here! Hurry, hurry, hurry!!!

Ten million things to do....gotta run!
Cheryl

Great Week

I am having a great week! Eddy and I had a heart to heart earlier in the week and I feel so much better knowing where he is coming from and how he feels.

This week I was busy with a lot of appointments. The lymphedema therapist (Jeanette), the radiation oncologist (Dr Kim), the chiropractor (Dr Marie Royer) and the lymphedema massage therapist (Sonja Morgner).

Jeanette was able to get the insurance to cover a pump and jacket that will help the lymph fluid move in my body. The pump "decongests" your trunk first then moves on to your hand and arms. At each of my visits with Jeanette we use the jacket and pump she has, now I will be able to decongest myself daily! I'll post a picture when the equipment arrives so everyone will get an idea of what it looks like.

I'll post more later!
Cheryl

Bone Scan.....

CLEAR!!!! Yippy. I met with the oncologist the other day for a follow up and for my Tamoxifen prescription. During the appointment I asked the fifty million questions I had and mentioned the hip pain. After a brief discussion and an exam, I got a referral for a bone scan to rule out new tumors. I was extremely relieved after the scan that the radiologist actually gave me the all clear when I expected a wait for the answer. What a relief to know the cancer hadn't moved to the bones.....big sigh.



This month I am schedule for a multitude of appointments, which is nice since the insurance year is ending and I will start with my nice $2500.00 deductible and $7500.00 out of pocket max again in January. I see the occupational therapist for the lymphedema, the physical therapist to help straighten my back out and stop the numb fingers at night, the gynecologist for my annual exam, blah, blah, blah....the list goes on!



I am coming to terms with the lymphedema but still feel like it is a huge pain in the ass and just note fair (yes, I realize life is not fair but I think I've hit my quota for my entire life). My compression sleeve and glove aka torture devices are becoming less noticeable on some days but still not making it through the night with the gigantic oven mitt! The occupational therapist is helping me get this special jacket that will help "decongest" my arm with the aid of a pump.



Off to bake some cookies!
Cheryl
ps-Spell check wasn't working so try to ignore the spelling mistakes.