good cards not goo cards;)

Life is not a matter of holding goo cards, it's playing a poor hand well.

Merry Christmas 2010!

"Jesus doesn't just want to be our Savior...He wants to be Lord of our life!"

Thank-you for this wonderful quote and reminder this season, Mr. Jacob Wall! Blessings to you and Nancy and your entire family!

Merry Christmas to all!! To ALL!!!

Short an sweet.

I haven't written for so long because I haven't had regular access to a computer for a few months now. I've been doing mini updates through facebook but that's all. I've been so busy being WELL I haven't had much time to post anything.
Last week I got to kick a BIG one off my bucket list by going to Chicago and getting to see the Oprah Winfrey show. It was a great show and it airs Dec. 6th. I can't really tell you what it was all about because we ha to sign a document stating that we wouldn't.
I hope to write more again soon:)

WOW..really? Already?!?!

Our 7 year old daughter, had a 20 minute discussion with her Grandpa Janz, who's a theologian at King's college in London England, asking such questions as, "Why was I born? Why me? Why now? Why do I and everything around me exist?" Thank goodness we have a professor of divinity in the family to answer the questions of our oldest!! And thankfully I was at work;)

Quote I found for today!!

"Life isn't about waiting for the storms to pass, it's about dancing in the rain!" So let's Dance!!

Health update: not so bad, but not great.

So in the last week I have received some news that does explain most of my "issues" as of late. I don't understand all of it, because I'm not a health professional, but i'll try to explain it simply. None of it seems to be cancer related but all of it appears to be realted to long term side effects from cancer treatment. In the "gyno" region I will need to have surgery. A biopsy has shown cause for concern. It's not an emergency but will need to be taken care of in the fall probably. The extent of the surgery I don't know yet. I will know after meeting with my specialist in just over a week. I'm glad there seems to be a fix for an on going problem I've been having since coming out of chemo induced menopause just over 2 years ago.

While getting the results of the biopsy I told my GP that I had a variety of other random odd health "issues" that I thought I should mention. She took them VERY seriously and ordered a large amount of tests for almost every part of my body. The concern of course is that cancer maybe found. That is not what has come up, thankfully, but what has come up is upsetting. I have tested positive for an auto-immune disease. We don't exactly know which one yet, as I will have to have more tests and meet with another specialist, a Rheumetologist.

She was suspecting Rheumetoid Arthritis at first , but after the test results she suspects Lupus. Lupus would be basically the worst case scenerio, but at this point the most likely from the test results. The other thing it could be is fibromyalsia, which is what my Mom has and was diagnosed at the same age. Because my Mom has and auto-immune disease, it makes more sense that I will have one:( Again, I don't know for sure what I have, but we do know I have something. I feel disappointed that in less than two weeks I have found out that I have two more things wrong with me.

I'll write more when I know more.

But again, I'm happy to be alive to complain about them!!:)