No More Surgeries

I'm back, its been one week from today I had surgery. Everything went well. I have no more ovaries and my chest looks better. The Dr. ended up scraping the lining of my stomach and then moving my liver around and a whatever else is in there. The reason was to check for growths or cysts. The only real pain I have is from the Dr. doing that(I think). My mind is feeling better then my body but I'm sure my body will catch up.

Thank you to my sister Tiesha who flew into help me. She stayed with me for the first day and then took my kids up to my moms and watched them. She also cleaned my house. She has always been the giving sister full of charity. Love you! Although I have to add- she came in and saw me laying in bed feeling so sick and with nothing on my head she said"You really look like a cancer patient"I responded with"I guess that's good since I am one".

Today I went to Asia's preschool for a Mothers Day party. It was very nice. The teacher asked each child what they liked doing with their mothers. Asia said"I love to snuggle with my mom". That comment meant alot to me just because we have done that alot this year. With me being so sick I would read to her until I really didn't feel good and then we would watch Dora on TV all the while just snuggling. I have been very blessed this past year because as much as I like to snuggle with my children; I am usually up moving, cleaning and running somewhere. I can always look back and think of the memories of my children laying by my side sharing their stories, jokes, worries and kisses while we all laid in my bed when I couldn't get out.

My hair is growing slower then I would like. So far there is no hint of red. It looks blondish brown. I am still holding out that it will turn red.Oh how I hope.

No Regrets,

Another Successful Surgery!

Wahoo!! She did it again and came out on top! Surgery went great for Shaquel yesterday.

She is now recovering at her mom's house and once again DRUGS ARE GOOD!! I'm going

to take the liberty and create what I think would

be on her "thankful top ten" list:

1 through 10 would be the

same...

I AM SO BLESSED TO HAVE SUCH GOOD PAIN KILLERS!

As far as what happened yesterday regarding her surgeries, the doctors went in through the belly

button and were able to "zap" the ovaries and then continued

to remove them as well as check out

other organs like the stomach and liver to make sure

they were healthy and all is good. Everything checked out in EXCELLENT

condition!

She now is just going to focus on getting strength back and gearing

up for radiation which will begin as soon as the end of May

if everything heals accordingly.

Nurse Tiesha will be arriving sometime today and will take extra good care

of Shaquel for the weekend.

Today is going to be a quiet day of DRUGS and healing for her

and hopes that by tomorrow she will

be in a more conscience mode to answer her phone, have

conversation, and remember who she talks to.

She is so thankful that you all have supported her

and have kept her in your prayers! She feels

it on a daily basis!

Hopefully The Last Surgery

I will be leaving my home for surgery at 3:45am tomorrow. I am the first patient so hopefully the Dr's have had a good nights sleep and are ready to operate. My plan is to stay in St. George for a couple of days and then come home, but will see what tomorrow brings.
Thank you Heidi and Beth and to everyone that came to celebrate with me at the luncheon. That was very kind of all you. I also appreciate the gifts. More importantly I appreciate your friendship and the kindness you show me and my family.
Well I better get back to cleaning my house so if anyone comes to help with my kids they will think my house is always clean. Ha Ha

No Regrets,

Listening For The Good

This past week has been so nice. I decided I would be more attentive to my surroundings and just listen. I mean listen for the good, nothing negative.

These are 10 things I enjoyed hearing this week!

1. Rain Falling

2.The Sacrament Prayer

3.Listening to my children lay in their beds and talking to one another about anything and everything that day

4.Stillness of the night

5.Laughter-my children laughing, friends laughing and my self laughing at ourselves or one another.

6.Music-Especially my daughter practicing the piano

7.Friends voices I havent heard for far to long

8.My children saying their prayers and knowing that their Heavenly Father is listening to them

9.Friends and Family calling with concern about how I am doing

10.A child throwing a fit and it wasn't mine!

Patience

Today was a full day of meeting with Dr's. Overall it was a good day. My prognosis is good. My counts were below normal but much higher then a few weeks ago. They are high enough to allow me to have my surgery. I actually will have 2 surgeries. The first one will be to have my ovaries taken out(my cancer is estrogen induced) and the second will be to fix my scarred, flat chest. The plan was two have them 6-8 weeks apart. After going to a new gynecologist and coordinating his surgery day with my plastic surgeon all worked out to have on the same day. The Dr's have warned me that having both will be quite painful especially since chemo has wrecked havoc on my body. I understand what they are saying but I want to have them both done now.

I haven't been feeling well this week. I subbed for a first grade class on Monday by the time I got home I could barely move my body. It hurt so bad. I ended up being sick for at least 24 hours. I was telling Dr. H. about it today and in a serious tone he said"I think you were supposed to learn patience this past year and you Haven't!" Then he started laughing. I totally disagree. He thinks I am impatient because I expect to do things that I used to do and never get tired or feel sick .He reminded me it will take up to a year and I probably will never feel the same way. I'll show him(maybe). While teaching I had this little boy tell me he was excited to have me teach because he has never been taught by a genie. I told him I wish I was a genie. I had a good laugh.

Its All In How You Look At It !

Is it wrong to recognize every hospital number on your caller ID and opt not to answer it? I have been dealing with my medical bills today. I am not complaining about them, except for the fact why do they have to make the bills so confusing. From one hospital they have 20 different account numbers and bill you separately for each one. I would love to receive one bill and have the account numbers itemized with a running total on the bottom.When they call saying that they are calling regarding a certain account number I want to say well let me go through my manyyyyy files and I will get back to you in about 2 hours. It drives me crazy! But don't worry I will be fine all it takes is some chocolate.

For some exciting news, I was examining my head the other day and saw a little hair growing. I was so excited I ran into my girls room and said "look moms hair is growing" Kylie looked and said"where"? I go over to there window flip open there blinds and tell them to look in the light. Savannah said "mom I don't think you can call it hair I think it's called fuzz" They weren't impressed. I don't think they shared in the same excitement that I was feeling at that moment.

Over the weekend I posted a picture of me bald. I ended up taking it off about a hour later. I just don't like seeing myself bald. I thought it would be fun to post and then take pictures as my hair grew out, but I decided no one needs to see my bald head that bad.

I hope all of you are enjoying your week. Thanks for reading my blog.

No Regrets,

A new puppy

It's been an exciting day in the Cannon household. I finally let my kids get a puppy. It's a very cute yellow lab. I had a collie when I was little but she was hit by a car. That was the only dog I really loved. My other siblings had dogs growing up but I never really got into the whole love of animals again. When I got married I found out that my husband and his family were big animal lovers. We started with a puppy and that dog was the best dog ever. Her name was Daley. She now has passed on but my kids were close to her and have wanted another one ever since. At Christmas we were close to getting a puppy but I just couldn't think about a dog when I was just starting chemo. I told the kids when all my treatments were over we would get one. This past week we had the opportunity to get a papered dog that seems to be great. I do have to say although I am not a big animal lover I do think it is good for kids to have pets.
Who knows maybe I will have to walk the dog and that's how I will get back into shape. I can't seem to get myself up and walking on my own.