Hello everyone, Well, today I had my PET scan today and we'll get those reports on Monday. I've never had an IV in my foot before. That smarted. I'd much rather have it somewhere else!! From there, we'll plan on what to do. I was a little disappointed that we don't have a plan yet but God already knows the plan and that's all I need to know. I'm relying on Him. Did you know that cancer cells LOVE sugar???? I didn't! Know one ever told me that. My diet has changed for sure!! I hope it's not too late. The PET scan uses glucose to get into the cancer cells. That just blows my mind. As one writer says, sugar is a poison to the cancer patient!!! There is also other things we can change our diet with to help prevent cancer. As I study more, I'll let you know what I discover. Well, gang, I'm going to bed. Tired and it was a long day. By the way, the roller coaster got the brakes put on for the weekend. Maybe next week, it'll start climbing that first hill again.

Well, good morning. I got the results the other day and I forgot to post them-I think. Well, here they are. Breast MRI-negative for any cancer YEAH!!!

Bone scan--may be something on my breast bone--not yea, praying it's not anything

CT-abdominal nodes may be enlarged-but not sure. It may be due to my "girth"

Chemo-probably

Mastectomy-no but I'm still going to talk to her about it

MD Anderson-I'll ask her about that also.

Today: Friday July 30th, bloodwork for surgery, consultation with Dr. Laidley on the plan of attack and a PET scan.

Then tonight, the Mesquite Rodeo!! Gotta see Caitlyn "mustin butt" again if she's selected, and watch both of them in a calf scramble. That's my day so far. I'll write down later about the planned attack

Good morning, Well yesterday I climbed aboard the roller coaster and got the tests all behind me. I feel great!! I'm anxiously awaiting the results and to "git 'er done" . Jesus is truly walking with me. 1 Peter 5:8 says to be aware and ALERT because the devil prowls around seeking who he can devour. He tried to devour me with cancer and because God, through my alertness, guided me to ask "what's that" and so again satan's plan to destroy me has failed! I FIRMLY believe that and if you don't read for yourself. I have read the end of "the book" and I know I'm the ultimate winner along with King Jesus!!! I've got things to do today to keep me busy til I hear from Dr. Laidley. I'm hopefully going with a friend Thursday because she has to have 2 biopsies done. I've been witnessing to another friend also. God is so good!!!! ALL THE TIME NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCE!!! May HE only be glorified through this. Have a great and wonderful day!!!

Good Morning to you all my friends. I want you to "know how I am doing". God is so good to send me soooo many friends, prayers, phone calls. I just visited with a very long time friend of mine who works in radiology and was telling me a little of what to expect during the new test that I'm having done on Monday. Thank you Peggy for being there for me. I really am doing very well, just past the shock now and ready to get moving!!! I wish Monday was here and then results day and then "the plan of attack" day. Let's getting it going. I'm so thankful to God for His love of me and all the "God things" He allows to happen in my life. For those of you that don't know, God delivered me of uterine cancer. He just kept after me encouraging me to not stop trying to see what was wrong with me. After the hysterectomy, everything looked great until the day I went home when my Dr. told me I had uterine cancer and would have to undergo another surgery. That's a God thing. ALL 40-50 nodes in my abdomen were clear. Praise the Lord. If I'd have had my mammo the month it was due 6 years ago, breast cancer would have been missed so I praise God for reminding me that I had missed the appt time. I went in and wa-la I had breast cancer. Had I gone in Feb. , it would have been missed but because I went in April, they found it. It had a growth rate of 50% so at another year, it would have been too late. Now 6 years later, here I am again-starting down this path. God is walking besides me, around me, through me, etc. The Footprints Prayer or story is applicable here. No, I don't know what the future holds but I DO KNOW Who holds the future in His hands. He promised to Never leave me or forsake me and He won't!!!! I told Bryan the other day that I felt like he had married a "lemon" because of all the medical problems I've had. He said that he loves lemonade and it made me smile. Thank you Bryan. That meant SOOOO MUCH to me!!! I'm humbled by the love that everyone has shown. I don't like having to be on the receiving end-I'm the giver so this is hard for me. Thank you all for your great love of me and my family and if I don't know you, keep watching this blog because I want you to see how the love of Jesus forgives us and He's there for you to. All you have to do is to tell Him that you are a sinner. We ALL are, I am, my husband is, my pastor even is. Anyway, tell Him you are a sinner, ask Him to forgive you of your sins and to come into your life and be the Lord of your life. He will immediately. He doesn't promise us a "worry free" life but He promises to walk through everything with you. He does, I KNOW because I've had to walk through many a heartache and problems but I love Him more each day, want to serve Him more each day. If you have asked Jesus into your heart by reading this, please send me a note. God Bless you all!!!!

Hi everyone, Well, I'm much better today. I had the neatest experience last night. Two of our pastors came over with about 15 others and they anointed me with oil and prayed for me. I so appreciated it. It was a refreshing time of prayer and the Holy spirit being involved. Thank you so much for those at church. It was so neat also-Caleb and Caitlyn wanted to be involved. They anointed me with oil also and have been praying. I love those kids so much. Thank you Jesus for this time I have with them. I'm doing a lot better-I'll be glad when Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday gets here!!! Let's get the ball rolling and get this thing taken care of. Just keep us all in your prayers through the next weeks. I'll try to keep you all updated as I know anything.

Dear All, Well, the results were not good for me today. I have breast cancer again. This time it's on the right side and it's in a node. I don't know anything else at this time except I have to have a full body MRI and some CT scans. Just keep me in your prayers. I'm so thankful that my grandchildren are here to keep my mind off "the bad stuff". Thank You Jesus for them!!! All my love and just pray for me.

Well, I put a few pictures of the trip on here for you to enjoy. Now for the day I had. 1st this morning, I had to go to the "hand surgeon" to see how the break is doing. My hand is healing very slowly so he has curtailed my "right hand activity" for another month because I'm still in pain. Oh well, at least he said we're not looking at surgery because I am building new bone. Praise the Lord. Next, I had to have another biopsy today. My mammogram was great but my Dr. noticed a 1 cm. lymph node that didn't look right. She took samples of it today for slides and also a little of the node. She said that if she doesn't like the results, she will take it out. I hope I don't have to have surgery!! I'm just praying and I know that God is in control. satan won't defeat me, I just praise God for putting Dr. Laidley into my life!! I adore her-she's such an awesome Dr. Anyway, I should find out the results Wed. but probably Thursday. I'll keep you posted as to the developments. I hope you all have a great day and a blessed week.

Hello everyone, Well, we had a great trip to Branson with the kids.



Caitlyn dipped candles while at Silver Dollar City.

We are at the Saloon show here. The kids enjoyed the show.

Caleb watched Tom put his name on Caleb's bat. Caleb also added a cross to it. Tom put his initials on the end of the bat. He really enjoyed watching everything that happened.

Well, this was the end of a very full day at Silver Dollar City!!! Caleb and I had gone in the cave and rode a couple of rides but mostly it was pretty hot!! We had a good time in Branson. I still have some more pictures to put on the computer but I haven't had time to do it yet. We did quite a few things while we were there. More later.

Good afternoon everyone, Well, we've been gone again. I haven't put the pictures onto the computer yet so you'll just have to wait. Kimberly, Zachary, Caleb, Caitlyn, and I went to Branson and had an absolute ball!! It was a HOT ball but we had fun anyway. Went to Silver Dollar City, Dixie Stampede, and a bunch of other stuff. I'll post pictures when I can later on. We're celebrating Les' birthday this evening!!! Caitlyn is working on a birthday card for him. Caleb and Caitlyn sure do love Uncle Les. He is so special to them and they are special to him also. He sure missed us all while we were gone. Well, not much more happening right now so we'll talk later.

My brother wanted to watch Caitlyn in action on the ewe so I'll try to download this. Hope it works!! Okay, I'm still waiting!!! I've brushed my teeth, taken my medicine for the night, visited with Bryan for a few minutes and it's STILL downloading. I'll let it keep going for a few more minutes and then I'll give up on it. It's been about 20 minutes already. It didn't even last THAT long!!! I gave up, I'll try it again later. Good night!!!

I forgot to add with the rodeo pictures that Caleb WON the modified calf scramble last night!! He won $25.00. Instead of chasing the calf because of all the mud, they had to run from one side of the arena to the other. He pulled his boots, socks off, and then took off and beat all the kids! Way to go Caleb!!! Caitlyn participated in the mutton bustin and had a great time. She hung on really well!!! Congratulations Caitlyn!!

It would take me a hour or more to write about all that we have done. We're trying to do some educational stuff also besides just fun---but mostly fun. One thing we don't do is "play video games and watch tv all the time". That's for sure not good. These are a couple of pics of the rodeos. We've been to 2 but just only put in 1 or 2 pictures. We've had Sammie and Lindy's birthday luau!!! Complete with outfits, leaving tomorrow for Missouri for several days and then the rest of the time, we'll be around home swimming, playing with friends, and many more things. I hope you all enjoy this little bit of Heaven for us!!! The video STILL isn't uploaded!!!

Oh, the movie is at the bottom!!! Okay. Well, you can see what all is going on here-fun, fun, love, love, hugs, kisses, etc.

I hope the movie goes here! It's just one of the MANY movies we took at Arkbuckle Wilderness Area in Oklahoma. We had an absolute ball!!! It was a really neat day trip. I hope this video uploads okay. It's taking a long time!!!

This is a picture of Turner Falls in Oklahoma. We stopped by there after the Arbuckle Wilderness.
This was taken at the timeshares indoor waterpark in E. Texas. We were there several days and really enjoyed this park. Lazy river, wave pool, slides of all kinds, you name and we all did it!!

Here's a picture of Caitlyn in the pond. I guessed I skipped over the ones of Caleb. They had a great time swimming with Kodi and Uncle Les.

Good evening everyone. I wanted to share some sweet pictures and sweet moments with family and friends so far this summer. The kids are absolutely WONDERFUL!!! We are having such a great time with them. I put as much as I can on here. First, we had their birthday parties. Kimberly made their cakes. An Explorer type of vehicle for Caleb and an Ariel cake for Caitlyn. We had it at the waterpark with many in attendance. I didn't take pictures of all the people there!!

We are having such a wonderful time with the kids so far!!! Christopher and I took them to Arbuckle Wilderness on Monday and we were mauled by all the llamas, camels, donkeys, etc. I'll have to post the movie later if possible. Tonight we're going to try and go to the Blue Ridge Rodeo. It is looking a little rainy but the weather is supposed to move on. Mutton Busting is full so Caitlyn can't participate tonight. We'll have to get to another rodeo for that. Right now, they are swimming with Poppy at the natatorium. They've been there 3 1/2 hours so far!! Poppy will be pooped!! They won't though. Well, have a wonderful evening.