health

  • How I’m Doing . . .

    I just finished up my 3rd round of insusions with my new chemotherapy, Enhertu. (The pill version was so new, that insurance would only approve the ifusion version. It’s fine. The symptoms are very similar to my old chemo treatments,… Continue reading

    How I’m Doing . . .
  • April Adventures

    April has been jam packed with all the things, but in the middle of it all, I have still had my treatments and appointments and such. My latest chemo just happened to fall on the Friday that Kevin was in… Continue reading

    April Adventures
  • More March Adventures

    The struggle with my emotions lately is very real. Frustration, anxiety, sorrow, all laced with gratitude and hope. Because of that, I have been leaning even harder into my faith and finding reminders that the Lord has me and is… Continue reading

    More March Adventures
  • Discouragement: Finding Hope in all the Hard

    Over the past few weeks, there have been a lot of hard things – bad news, discouraging results, and lots and lots of pain. There have been a lot of days where hope and positivity was very hard to find.… Continue reading

    Discouragement: Finding Hope in all the Hard
  • The End of January

    We finished off the month of January with quite a few events for Arthur. One of which was the district academic UIL competition. The competition was actually the morning before the big ice storm, but because they were trying to… Continue reading

    The End of January
  • “Why?” The Question I Don’t Ask

    When your journey begins with a miracle – and not just a little miracle – a huge, massive, “Wow!” kind of miracle, it changed everything. It puts things in perspective and makes the hand of the Lord so apparent in… Continue reading

    “Why?” The Question I Don’t Ask
  • A Wonderful Family Christmas

    I love Christmas, especially Christmas Eve, as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, spend extra time together as a family, and participate in some of our favorite traditions. This Christmas Eve, we started things off with a walk at… Continue reading

    A Wonderful Family Christmas
  • Graphs, Charts, and Miracles

    Graphs may not seem exciting, but this one actually is – at least to my family . I just got an update yesterday from the lab, and my latest bloodwork showed that the amount of DNA of my cancer in… Continue reading

    Graphs, Charts, and Miracles
  • 3rd Week of Christmas & Back to School

    What a week!! So good, so hard, so fun, and yet so bone-wearingly exhausting (both mentally and physically). On Monday, I went back to work. I set foot in my classroom for the first time since a week after my… Continue reading

    3rd Week of Christmas & Back to School
  • Holding on to Hope – A Health Update

    I guess it’s time for an update about me and how I’m doing, but I’ve been so overwhelmed with all the emotions this week, that I haven’t been sure how to put it into words. It has now been four… Continue reading

    Holding on to Hope – A Health Update