I started my Cancer Journey September 2011. I am almost completely done with it. I have one more doctor that will release me and I will be finished with it. So May 12, 2017 my Oncologist released me from his care. What great news. He said, because of the kind of cancer I had and the way I responded to treatment, and the way my recent tests have been, it is likely the cancer will not return.

Scars are healing. Hair is sort of coming back, just has always been slow to grow. Skin is clearing up as I get rid of medications. There is just too much life to live still.

Hans would never let me mow the lawn.  He is a do-it himself kind of guy.  Always keeping busy and always doing a great job at it.  You probably thought he just cooks.  But with his recent surgery and the guy that did the cutting the two weeks prior wasn't availble (he was busy becoming a dad of a beautiful baby girl), I said I would give it a try.  Now I will be doing it as long as Hans is recuperating.

Fresh Thyme Tour w/ Cancer Support Community~

On this day we were invited to attend a Fresh Thyme Tour of it's Greenwood Store.  They prepared for us snacks and salmon from their Bakery and Deli.  It was so nice to have this opportunity to be introduced to the store as we were just beginning to frequent that particular store.

Thank you Cancer Support Community Center for having such wonderful events.

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Nail Day~

Got my creative nails on today.  This is with using the stickers I got at the Dollar Tree.

Using the NO CHIP top cover helps it to last more than the package says it will.

Liberating the drugs!!!

I feel so liberated today. I called the doc back after he left a message and wanted to talk to me personally. It was the doc. I ignored picking up the phone in hopes to not talk to his blasted nurse again. He says he certainly did not want me to take anything I am not comfortable with. He has sent in the referral to the endocrinologist. He said to hold off on the other medication that was sent in for me. Let my numbers ride a bit. Let's start clean he said. I expressed to him how unhappy I was when his nurse told me I was going to be on shots if I didn't take any of the options she was giving me per the doc. In the last email to him I explained that my mom was victim of being a pharmaceutical junkie. She didn't know enough to say NO. I don't want that for me. He said he agrees. After 6 years with him, I think he knows by now why I am not fond of drugs.

We are going to start back on the South Beach Diet. It worked for us till we had to have a family member move in with us and always had to bring in the sweets. Temptation and not wanting to eat like us ruined it for us on the diet the last time. The only thing I won't give up is my WHITE RICE. What kind of Filipino would I be if I did that!!! Have a good day.

Falling apart.

Started with a phone call from the nurse of our doctor. I had let them know I am not doing well on the Januvia. I ended up handing the phone to Hans. I just can't talk to that woman anymore. I know when something isn't working. Don't sit there and tell me I need to take it or I will be doing the shots next. IRRESPONSIBLE!!! That was the second time she had said that to me in a week. I tried to say, the common thing not working is the 1st med the Metformin. We need to change that. She wouldn't hear that. It was like I never said it. I have tried two secondary meds to go with the Metformin. Strike two!!! I won't let them use my body for experimental use. I can't end up like my mom. Her aneurysm was (I believe) because of prescription inconsistency. Prescription Junkie is what I call it. I won't go there. After the call we went to the gym and when we pulled up into the driveway, I just broke down. Hans is very worried. I am very worried. Yes the meds withdrawals is making me very depressed. That part I can get past. But this part is very scary with them just wanting to keep masking what is going on. The Januvia gave me a persistent cough. I didn't take it last night and it went away. The nurse tells me to go ahead and not take it for a week and then try it again. Uh, NO!!! What part of that makes sense. If a pill gives me a side effect that isn't good, I am not going back on it EVER. Sorry. So she said then you have to get on shots daily. So being the spoiled brat about meds get me to that decision? My support group is all about breast cancers or cancer in general. So now I will have to find one dealing with Diabetes. This disease scares me more than the cancer did. I know my husband is there for me. But there is only so much he can do.

It was a beautiful service. She is another one of the young ones that fought so hard. She was in the mist of planning her wedding when it all went south for her. She was feisty and tough till the end. Lupus mixed with cancer is a very hard thing to over come. We have another Angel to help us with the fight.