My Four Month Checkup and the Relay for Life!

I went to the oncologist yesterday for my four month check up and everything looks good. I have to go for a breast MRI just to keep up on the lump in my right breast. Even though I had the mammogram and the ultrasound, he thinks it will be best if I have a MRI just to be sure. I really hate that test. It doesn’t hurt, although I do have to have an I.V. those don’t bother me. It is just going into that tube and being still for 30 minutes that kills me. Laying on my stomach and my arms out like superman. I will just take my mind somewhere pleasant during it. Last time I just kept thinking about our camping trip that was coming up and it helped me get through the last 10 minutes of the test without getting up and bolting out of there.  I had blood work and he also checked all my lymph nodes and he said he didn’t feel anything to be concerned about also he said my liver felt good and my other organs. He must know what he’s feeling for I guess. I just wonder how he would know if someone’s liver didn’t feel good….?  He also gave me a shot and some antibiotics because I have some sort of infection related to my allergies and sinus problems. He said I am good for another 4 months as long as the blood work and MRI both come back good.

So yesterday I am sitting here and the phone rings and it is my doctor’s office. The first thing I think is …uhoh…..why are they calling me.  It was the nurse and she had my blood test results. My heart sank thinking that there was some sort of activity going on in there. Thank god that wasn’t the case. She informed me that I have a low functioning thyroid so now I have to take thyroid medicine for a month and then go and get another blood test. The nurse said it could be the medication I was on or the chemotherapy that caused it. Also I just read online that radiation can cause it too. Who knows what the heck happened. This might explain why I have been having a hard time losing the 20 pounds I gained during chemotherapy. I really hope this medicine works and gets my metabolism back to normal!

I will be participating in the Relay for Life again this year. There was an article in our local paper about it. They wrote about my sister Sue’s involvement with the Relay. They also wrote about Sharon my sister that passed away from breast cancer and how I fought it too and how far treatment has come since then. Here is the link if you would like to read it. Article

I stepped down this year from the Relay for Life entertainment duties but I am still on the committee. I have too much on my mind to focus so much energy into it this year. When I get my head together I will take on more duties again.  If you would like to donate here is a link to my personal page. My Relay for Life Page  There is also a link on the main page of my journal to the left.  If you don’t like to do stuff like that online you can print out a mail in form. Or if you don’t want to print out a form you can email me and I can give you my home address. My email is gosso23@aol.com. Thanks to all of you that have donated already.  I greatly appreciate your generosity and it means so much to me.

Time to vent!!

OK time to vent! The refrigerator repair man just left and the news is not good. This is the third time my fridge has broken, Last time it broke was only about 8 months ago and this time it is the exact same thing!  It’s the motherboard!  Who knew refrigerators had motherboards in them anyway. Why can’t they just make things like they used to? They ran just fine without all that computer stuff in them before.  It is going to cost another $200.00 to get fixed. I think we are going to just go buy a new fridge. This one is only 4 years old. I am just sick over this. I am writing to GE to complain about this. I did some research and some of the GE motherboards are recalled but not mine. There has to be something going on that causes it to blow. The sad thing is I know I can call and complain all I want but they aren’t going to do anything. I already went through this with them last time it broke.

OK vent over…….

My Miracle. Happy Birthday Megan!

Happy Birthday Megan!

Nineteen years ago today a miracle happened. I had my baby girl.  It was a very scary day for me and my family because she wasn’t supposed to be born until mid April.

The morning before she was born, Jeff left for work and everything was fine. I fell back asleep only to be awakened by a feeling like my water broke. I got up and went into the bathroom only it wasn’t water, it was blood and a lot of it. I called my sister Sharon right away and then Pam and Sue. They were all over so fast. My mom and dad lived up north then but when they got the call they made it here in record time. They called an ambulance and off I went to the hospital not knowing what was happening to my baby.

I was bleeding but I didn’t have any labor pains. At this point they told me I would be staying in the hospital until my baby was born which was one and a half months away. That evening I started to have labor pains. They gave me medicine to stop the labor but Megan wasn’t having it. They said my baby was in distress and I had to get to surgery immediately.

They sent Jeff home and just when he walked in the door, he had to turn back around because I was being rushed into to an emergency C-section.

I remember laying on the table crying and thinking the worst.

When she was born I saw a glimpse of her before they scooped he up and ran out the door with her and she looked like a little baby bird that got kicked out of the nest. She was 3 lbs. 4 ounces.

I went into recovery and Jeff came back with some pictures and showed me our new baby girl. She had wires and tubes and I was scared to look at them.

She spent a month in the NICU and she was so tiny. She had to be fed through a tube in her nose. We would visit her every day and some days we couldn’t touch her or hold her. I would cry all way home. I remember one time we went to see her and she was naked on her tummy with her butt sticking up in the air and all you could see were two bones where her butt should be. They said she was sick and we couldn’t see her that day and we both cried as we walked back out the door to go to the car.

They finally let her come home when she reached 4 lbs. but she had to be on a heart monitor until she was about 8 months old because she would forget to breathe. When the monitor went off we had to give her a shake to remind her to breathe.

Today is Megan's 19th birthday and she has grown into a beautiful young lady. I just can’t believe where the time went. We went through her baby book last night and she really loved reading all about her self as a baby.

Tonight we are going to the casino for her Birthday.

Thank you god for our beautiful Megan.