Happy New Year everyone! I know I'm really REALLY bad at updating this blog! I've got to get into a routine and then it will all come together I'm sure.
So much time has gone by.... I'm very good about keeping up on my videos on YouTube but for some reason drop the ball here. I see so many wonderful and creative blogs, I get jealous! I need to play around with the page format and style, pics, all that kind of great stuff so I promise that I will soon :)
So, what have I been up to? Well, weight-wise I'm at probably 158.5, I was at 157.9 a couple of days ago but that was before New Year's Eve and soon seriously bad news that we received this past Monday. My mom found out she has cancer. Rectal cancer to be exact. She's had some bleeding this year and her doctor sort of chalked it up to hemorrhoids and she finally was very insistant on getting a coloscopy so she had that done a couple of weeks ago and she wasn't quite "under" so she heard the doctor say, "Oh, that's not good" and it turns out she has a tumor just at the entrance of her rectum which is very small but flat and very difficult to get to surgically so they are going to start with a round of chemo and radiation to start with and surgery to follow. She took the news in stride as this is the 2nd time she's heard the dreaded "C" word. She had breast cancer back in 2003 and she fought that and has been fine since.
The day we got the news we decided to go out and celebrate New Years early which sounds really strange but getting trashed seemed like the best way (at the time) for us (my sister, mom, and I) to handle the news. We were well on our way to getting there when we got the call that she had to head off to the hospital for her CT scan so that spoiled our plans. She was really excited for us to celebrate New Years together though so we went to her Elks Lodge where she's a member and they had dinner, live music, and dancing (she LOVES to dance) so it was a good time. They even dedicated a song to her which was so nice, very touching. We all cried at the stroke of midnight followed by smiles so it was all good :)
I'm not sure how to post a link to that video but I'll try:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqlaYNmjFCs
I don't know how they put that cute box YouTube video link in here... I've got a learn how to navigate on here!
So much time has gone by.... I'm very good about keeping up on my videos on YouTube but for some reason drop the ball here. I see so many wonderful and creative blogs, I get jealous! I need to play around with the page format and style, pics, all that kind of great stuff so I promise that I will soon :)
So, what have I been up to? Well, weight-wise I'm at probably 158.5, I was at 157.9 a couple of days ago but that was before New Year's Eve and soon seriously bad news that we received this past Monday. My mom found out she has cancer. Rectal cancer to be exact. She's had some bleeding this year and her doctor sort of chalked it up to hemorrhoids and she finally was very insistant on getting a coloscopy so she had that done a couple of weeks ago and she wasn't quite "under" so she heard the doctor say, "Oh, that's not good" and it turns out she has a tumor just at the entrance of her rectum which is very small but flat and very difficult to get to surgically so they are going to start with a round of chemo and radiation to start with and surgery to follow. She took the news in stride as this is the 2nd time she's heard the dreaded "C" word. She had breast cancer back in 2003 and she fought that and has been fine since.
The day we got the news we decided to go out and celebrate New Years early which sounds really strange but getting trashed seemed like the best way (at the time) for us (my sister, mom, and I) to handle the news. We were well on our way to getting there when we got the call that she had to head off to the hospital for her CT scan so that spoiled our plans. She was really excited for us to celebrate New Years together though so we went to her Elks Lodge where she's a member and they had dinner, live music, and dancing (she LOVES to dance) so it was a good time. They even dedicated a song to her which was so nice, very touching. We all cried at the stroke of midnight followed by smiles so it was all good :)
I'm not sure how to post a link to that video but I'll try:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqlaYNmjFCs
I don't know how they put that cute box YouTube video link in here... I've got a learn how to navigate on here!
