8.2.23

How is it August already!?! This summer seems to have gone by faster than most! September is going to be here before we know it! And I still have to order the kids’ school stuff! 😬

I have some exciting news!! I officially have my surgery date! October 25th. Ironically that’s exactly 1 year after my 2nd surgery to get clear margins. 🙂 Now that we have a date we’re starting to plan our travel. I can already see God’s hand in it. There’s a house that is in highly recommended in the PRMA facebook group I’m in, Rose’s House. The couple that owns it has been down the breast cancer journey and only rents this house to women who are traveling for breast cancer. The house is set up with everything I would need during recovery for my specific surgery. We figured they would be booked. They aren’t! It’s ours while we’re there!!! Not going to lie, there were some happy tears when I heard that. Once we had a surgery date Aaron reached out to them to see their availability, with in minutes they called us. They helped answer any questions and even offered to pick us up from the hospital if we didn’t have a rental. I can not tell you how nice it is to not have to stress about it. PRMA has also been great with helping out of state patients. They have links to hotels that will offer discounts to their patients, they even tell you where to park. I know that sounds silly but when you are completely out of your element, just knowing you have to go to xx parking lot helps relieve the anxiety/stress of traveling for surgery. I’ll meet my doctor and nurse on the 23rd, and then I’ll have my surgery on the 25th. I need to stay in the area for 7-10 days after surgery for my follow-up and then I’ll be free to head home!

Monday I had my 3rd Lupron shot. Other than feeling bruised at the moment I’m doing good. Maybe a little tired. The fatigue with all of this is a real thing. And it’s crazy! Some days all I want to do is take a nap. 😬 I did have some crazy emotional swings after my last shot. I got that one June 30th. I headed to mom and dad’s on the 2nd, a little impromptu visit after mom’s knee surgery. I think she took more care of me than I did of her, and she was just a week removed from surgery! 🤣🤣🤣 Not really, but I could not get myself out of bed at 6 when she was getting up to do her physical therapy. And I had no energy left in the tank in the afternoon. I just wanted to sleep. So that was kind of a bummer. Then when I got home I had a good week to ten days of crying… I know that I’m more emotional when I’m tired, so I’m sure that didn’t help. But this felt different than that. I think I cried every night. I couldn’t have a conversation with Aaron without crying. Everything felt like it was an uphill battle. I didn’t really feel like leaving my room. Totally not my normal personality. As far as I know I’ve never dealt with depression or postpartum depression so I don’t know if that’s what that was (depression, I know it wasn’t postpartum depression 🤪). Then one day I woke up and felt like myself again. Like a switch had been flipped. It’s easy to look back now and see things a little more rationally, but when you are in the middle of it that’s a little harder to do. I’m very aware of the cycle that happened last time so I’m hoping that if I start to go there again after this shot I’ll be a little more prepared for that battle. I was kind of blind sided with it the last time. 😬

Thank you for walking this journey with us. I can’t even tell you how much we appreciate the prayers and support. It’s hard. Cancer disrupts everything, even when you don’t want it to. We are quickly approaching the one year mark that started us on this journey. One year since we found the lump: Aug 17. One year when we found out it was cancer: Sept 2. One year from my first surgery Oct 11. Hard to believe it’s only been a year. Some days it feels like forever ago and other days I can’t believe how fast it’s gone. 🙂

As far as specific prayer requests go. I would really appreciate prayers that my hormones would level off and that I don’t go through that low again. And then for travel and my upcoming surgery. I have my yearly exam later this month so I’ll probably find out then when I’m supposed to do my next mammogram. 😬

A throwback to Colt’s birthday since I didn’t share those earlier…

twinning!

The fair was in town! It was our first year doing the pedal tractor pull. They had fun!

Easton does not like thunderstorms. If he can’t hear the thunder then he is good.

Easton’s birthday celebration

Madi has started her orthodontic journey.. she got her spreader put in last month.

Check it out!!! I took a little nap on the couch and woke up with bed head!! My hair is officially long enough to get messed up now!!