Happy New Year!

I hope everyone has had a great holiday.

We have had a great time with family and friends. Sean's vacation has been much more enjoyable this week. No trips to the hospital!

Tonight we are off to Ilderton to spend New Year's Eve with Mike & Janine. We'll try to see if we can stay awake until midnight.

Happy New Year everyone!

Love CJ

It's A Knock Out - Ding!

The day has finally come, my last day of chemo. Yeee-haw!

So I have this week to get past the aches and pains and then have a trouble free Christmas holiday with the family. I am anxious to see if I will get hair from Santa this year. Ha, ha! Although Sydney found my pink wig from Halloween and came running into my room saying "I found your hair, Mommy, I found your hair!" Too funny.

My first radiation appointment is on Tuesday, January 2nd for them to do a simulation of the radiation that will start up likely the week after and continue for 6.5 weeks (taking me to around February 21st).

I will also start on Tamoxifen (an anti-hormone pill) starting sometime in January, which I will take for 5 years. After that, there will likely be something else for me to take (something newly developed).

My first Herceptin (with no chemo) will be on January 5th (they have kindly moved me back to Fridays). Apparently the doctors/nurses have decided to continue with both the hydracortisone and benadryl with the Herceptin for now. This is the opposite of what I was told the last time I was in (by my nurse). So on January 5th I will have all three drugs. Then on January 26th when I meet with my doctor prior to the next Herceptin we will talk about taking away the hydracortisone and potentially the benadryl down the road. My last Herceptin infusion will be on October 5, 2007.

I have a 6 month follow-up appointment with my surgeon on January 12th for him to check in with me as well. So January will be a very busy appointment month, especially with the radiation starting.

I want to thank all of you for your continued love and support. I couldn't get through all of this without you.

Happy Holidays to you and yours.

Love CJ

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays from the Joselyns......and the Santa Fairy!

Love CJ

Snow Day

As most of you know, Friday was a snow day in London.

Sean was originally supposed to go to Kincardine for work that day so he was up at 4:30 a.m. getting ready to still go! Needless to say everything was cancelled.

I woke up at 5:20 a.m. for some reason and couldn't believe how much snow had fallen. It took us 2.5 hours to dig ourselves out.

It was nice to have Sean home unexpectedly for the day. He had been out of town most of the week, up before Sydney woke up and home just before she went to bed. Sydney missed her Daddy so a snow day was just the ticket.

Here are some photos of our neighbourhood from 5:00 a.m. and on.....

Love CJ

It's All Worth It!

Some days when I'm feeling sorry for myself and I wonder if everything is all worth it....I have days like yesterday.

Sydney's Christmas concert was last night. Her class did Jingle Bell Rock....The photos say it all.

I am thankful that I was here to see it and that I will be here for many more.

Love CJ

Wall Motion Study

I'm off to Victoria Hospital this morning to have another Wall Motion Study done. This is the study that checks to make sure that my heart is still healthy after all of the drugs they have been pumping into me.

When I arrive they will take some blood, then mix it up with some radioactive material (I have to wait for about 30 minutes while they do that). Then they reinject the blood and take several slow scans of my heart for about 45 minutes. Maybe I'll have a nap during all of this.

Speaking of sleep, or lack thereof. I seem to be having night sweats now. They come on, wake me up and then I can't get back to sleep. Menopause, here I come. Another lovely side effect of the drugs. Great!

On the bright side, only 2 more weeks left before my last chemo treatment. Whoo hoo!

Love CJ