CCity Record 8-11-10

2010 Mitchell County Relay for Life

Just wanted to share the video of my speech. :-D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3G9vgBRd6w

And the results are in!

AND THEY ARE AWESOME!!! No tumors have grown. Again some have shrunk and others are stable. Meds are still working. I'm telling you I was so worried about the results. It never gets any easier. So I just continue taking the medicine and hope and pray it keeps working. Right now Im scheduled to have scans again on September 16th. That is if the company that makes the meds doesn't ask me to have them early again. I'm feeling good, and couldn't be doing better! I'm super excited and am so blessed to have such an awesome support system. Life couldn't be going any better. ;-D

Wating Waiting Waiting....

Okay, scans are done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now the long wait until Thursday for results!!!

It's that time again!!

Yep, scan and results time AGAIN! I've gotta go here in about an hour to start getting prepped for my scans. The scans wouldn't be so dang bad if I didn't have to drink that NASTY barium. Man, that stuff is gross! So I got scans today and results will be Thursday. I see the doctor at 9am on Thursday. I'm always nervouse as heck when it's results time, but this time I'm really scared! I'm so scared to get bad news. I'm scared they are going to say the meds aren't working anymore and the tumors are growing again. My worst fear!! I try my best to stay positive, but sometimes it's really hard. Mom, Jamie and Brayden are with me this trip. David stayed back to work. He came with me the last trip. Jamie and Brayden are having fun swimming right now while me and mom rest before heading up to the hospital. I'm super excited about tomorrow. We got tickets to the Barnum and Bailey Circus that is at Reliant Stadium. Being from such a small town all we've ever been to are the little rinky dinky ones. I'm so excited to be able to take Brayden. If you go an 1.5 before show time you can go back and see all the animals. So of course were going!! I just hope Brayden does okay with the animals. Ever since his dog attack he's been really stand offish around any animals. So we all really excited about tomorrow. I'm hoping it will help put my mind at ease for a little while. As soon as I get results Thursday I will for sure let everyone know.

Latest News

So I'm running a little behind, but by now most of you know that I got more good news last week. Scans show some tumors have shrunk some more and the others are stable. So nothing is growing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome Awesome Awesome!!! It was a long week in Houston but it was so worth getting the good results.

So I want everyone to click on this link and watch this video!! Donna lost her beautiful daughter Jaime to Melanoma in 2007. This is a PSA that she has done for the AAD and will air on TV, In Theaters........Donna did an awesome job and I want to share it with all of you. Tanning kills!! That's all there is to it!!!

http://www.aad.org/media/psa/index.html

Wonderful news!

So as many of you know by now I got wonderful news Thursday!!! Looks like the meds are working and the tumors on my lungs are shrinking!!! WOooooooooot!! The doctor showed us my scans from March and my current scans to show us the difference in the sizes of the tumors. I'm telling you I was so excited!!! For some reason i just didn't have a good feeling about this trial, but it proved me wrong. All the prayers have been answered. I ask for everyone to continue to pray the meds continue to work. If ya'll remember the last trial I was on worked for a little while but then the tumors started growing again. I was so excited I couldn't call everyone fast enough. lol My clinical nurse said my trips to see them will be less since I'm in the 3rd phase of the trial. That will help a lot because it's so expensive. Not much else is going on. Brayden just finished his 4th grade year. We got his scores back on his TAKS. He missed 3 on the reading and ZERO on the Math!! I'm so proud of him. Hope everyone has a fun, safe summer!! Remember to protect yourself and your kiddos from the sun!!!