YAY!!! The worst is over!

Now it is wait and see time. I will have to see my oncologist every 3 months for various scans and exams for the next two years. I am high risk for it to come back. The most common time for it to show up is around year 2-3. All I can do now is reduce my stress and live a healthy life. I will have to get an echocardiogram because I was having some chest pain after a short easy cardio workout. Hopefully my heart will be ok.

At the end of my infusion, my nurses came in singing a song. They had a certificate of completion that they all signed and a bottle of Martinelli’s Apple Cider. It was very sweet. Here is the picture we took!


Just wrapping up the song!



The ladies pose after singing!

I love my nurses!

Alan, my mom, and I got our pictures taken at Discovery Park in Seattle by one, Amy Kiel! It was very cool. I can’t wait to see how they came out! She is a busy woman though, so it will be a little while. I promise to post some pics as soon as I get them. It was so much fun. We laughed a lot. Amy is one of my all time favorite people.

We have spent a lot of time outside this last week. We took extra walks and did whatever we could to soak up the sun! It is so nice to have such sunny warm weather. We actually got into the 70s this week. It helps my soul and body so much.

So I did a dance dare. For those of you who don’t watch the Ellen Show which I do every day, she has asked people to send her videos of them dancing behind people who don’t know that is going on. I did this on my last day of chemo! I don’t have very good dance moves as I still have such limitation with my hip, but I did what I could! Yes this is embarrassing, but who cares? When have I even bothered to not put it all out there! I am a silly girl! Also, I had no music to listen too...

The good and the bad...

So I went to a radiation consultation today. Good thing, I am not getting radiation at this time; the bad thing, we learned I am high risk form my cancer coming back. Lymphoma that goes into the bone is high risk for returning and if the lymphoma is considered bone primary (the lymphoma developed in the bone first) it is even more high risk. They don’t know if I have bone primary lymphoma. We have decided to closely monitor, meaning PET scans every 3 months for a long time, and see what happens. If it does come back, we will catch it early and treat it with radiation.  

What does this all mean to me? Well, it means I am on the right track with my diet. The diet have been transitioning into is believed to have even cured some lymphoma patients. It isn’t a matter of vanity but truly a matter of my life. I am going to help myself live and be healthy, and this is the best way to do that. I had decided this before, but after my last chemo I plan to transition this blog from my cancer experience to my health and diet. I will still talk about some of the few cancer things that I will still deal with, but my focus in my life will be my health and stress management so that will be what my blog will reflect.

This week has been great. I feel wonderful. I am still easily fatigued, but I am going through chemo! I did a lot yesterday and I am tired for it today. It has been so nice to spend time with friends and enjoy some of the nicer weather we have been having! Alan and I spent the day at Lincoln Park and took Loki to the dog park on Monday. The dog park didn’t last long though, Loki just wasn’t into it. It was nice to just hang out in the sun by the water. I got a pedicure and had lunch with my dear friend Jessica. It always a good time with her! I went to a creativity workshop and drinks afterwards with Stacey. I walked around the mall with a new friend, Jesse, who is so amazing and has some damn cute kids!!! My mom and I spent the night with my mother-in-law for some quilting fun.  I went to Whole Foods for the first time and made tons of yummy and organic food! See… what a great week!

I think I will take a nap, get on my elliptical walker for a while, and go watch a movie with my mom. Hope everyone has a great Easter weekend! I promise to blog one more time before what will be my last chemo!!! So excited!