Phew! A lot has happened since I last posted.
I finished chemo.....well the first round anyway.
I have been through surgery....and expansion (wow!).
I have been prepped for radiation.
And, I have started my second round of chemo.
The positive side of things is that my hair is growing back, my eyebrows are completely back and I have enough eyelashes to wear mascara again!
During my break from the blog I read The Silver Lining by Holley Jacobs. It is a great book by a nurse who journeyed through breast cancer. The order of her treatments was different than mine but it was good to know that what I went and am going through is pretty universal and could have even have been worse. Holley always looked for a silver lining and I have tried to do that as well. I tend to think of myself as a "glass half full" kind of girl rather than "a silver lining", but its all the same in the end. Although I enjoyed her book, there was not really much in the way of "bad" details that can come along with cancer treatment. She did share her ups and downs but I would like to share more of my details in hopes that other people can be prepared. The intent is not for people to know what I have gone through and feel sorry for me or think of me as some kind of hero (although thinking I am does help me get through the rough days;-), but to let people know there are good days, bad days and days in what feels like hell. However, the bad days pass and the good days out number them in the end.
I am ready to blog and share some more of my story, so stay tuned.
