The Hardest Part Is Over!

I have completed all my planned cancer treatments and as far as can be seen at this time am free of cancer. In 3 months my body will have healed enough from treatment for them to do a scan and verify this but until then I'm just delighted to be on the road to recovery and feeling good!

So here are some pictures from the last week...

Without makeup I miss my hair- the good news is that it is growing back!

These are of the radiation experience. They took them for me my last day. Monday thru Friday for the last few weeks I have spent about 15-30 minutes laying on this hard table while machines moved around me taking pictures and administering targeted radiation treatment. The mask was clipped to the table to keep me in the exact same position for every treatment. I usually took a short nap as soon as they would dim the lights.

On my final day (I was wearing pajamas because we had a pajama day at school and watched parts of the polar express) they gave me a certificate for completing my treatments and a bottle of Sparkling Cider (which I haven't been sharing) and I got to bring home my radiation mask. I have 6 weeks before I go back for a follow up. This will be the longest I've gone without seeing a doctor since March of last year.

So excited! Happy Christmas and a wongerful New Years to all of my friends and family! You have been a great support through this exhausting experience, I am grateful for all the kind words, prayers on my behalf, and the generous gifts. I feel blessed to have so many wonderful people in my life.

"We can’t predict all the struggles and storms in life, not even the ones just around the next corner, but as persons of faith and hope, we know beyond the shadow of any doubt that the gospel of Jesus Christ is true and the best is yet to come."

'Let Him Do It with Simplicity' Elder L. Tom Perry, Oct. 2008, General Conference