Cancer Free!! Cancer Free!  Cancer Free!

It is still surreal to think that I am able to say I am a survivor and mean it!!  Yesterday and today were so busy in our house because school started for all the girls!  I have a 4th grader and two Kindergartners!!  The girls have had such a fantastic start to this new school year!  They love their teachers and are so excited to see how the rest of the year will go. 

I too have gone back to work as of today.  We had our teacher institute at work and will then welcome the students back on Monday.  My room is decorated and I still need to organize since we just moved in two weeks ago.  But it is all very much in need of the students to make it feel complete.

Radiation is going rather well!  I am having a little redness show up on the skin that has never seen the sun.  I am also dealing with the area where the lymph nodes were removed being sore and irritated.  But overall I am doing very well throughout this treatment.  I have completed 13 out of the 28 radiation treatments so tomorrow is my half way point.

I have been so excited to share with all of you these experience but there are no words that can explain how happy I was to share this new status with you!!  Out of this horrible nightmare has come so many beautiful things and the one that will stay with me forever will be the thoughtfulness and love that you have all shown me and my family!  We have been showered with so many gifts from the gift of friendship to the latest most generous gift Keith has been given probably in his whole life:  a trip to Las Vegas all expenses paid.  This has come from his cousin Sean who could not have been more generous or more caring when he and his wife offered Keith this chance to have a break from life and go out for some true fun!!  Our families have come through for us in so many ways!  This trip for Keith is an answer to my prayers because I am in awe of all he has done for the girls and I since diagnosis!  Our lives were turned upside down and he kept the ship going in the right direction the entire time!  He is truly an amazing person and I am so blessed to have him as my husband!!

The messages, hugs and smiles from everyone who has congratulated me are absolutely priceless!!  Just as you tell me I am an inspiration, please know that it would not have been possible without you all!