Cancer moms sweeping the nation...

I guess it's like when you get a new car, you notice all of the same kind of cars around you. I swear, before I was diagnosed I had not seen a single news story, article, TV segment, anything addressing pregnant women with cancer. In the past few months I have seen quite a few things, segments on the Today show, news articles, medical studies about chemo while pregnant, etc etc. Bonnie contacted me through Jill @ BabyRabies and Best4Babes about writing an article and here it is! Bonnie writes a lot about milk sharing, pregnancy issues, etc, and I had a great time talking with her.


http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/02/breast-milk-donors-coming-to-the-rescue-of-new-moms-with-breast-cancer/

Grateful.....

So my husband and I were sitting in Ruby's waiting for our lunch to come before my chemo today, and of course we, like a good married couple, are reading our phones and conversing sporadically. I checked facebook and saw this.....


http://www.babyrabies.com/2012/09/i-tied-a-wish-in-the-wind/


and then I burst into tears while waiting for my salad... and my husband goes what?? what's wrong??? and takes my phone and reads it and says, in typical man style, "oh cool, they went ziplining!"  That's really all I can say about that, because there aren't many words.


Here are some pictures from the Komen walk on Sunday...again, don't really have words for this whole group of people who showed up... for me? It all still sort of boggles my mind.

My husband and son, walking for mama...

 

 

Thank you again to everyone who came out... thank you to those who keep me in their thoughts from afar, thank you for every good wish and prayer that is sent out. Thank you isn't enough, but it's all I can offer right now.

 

Buckling my seat belt....

Well, after surviving the 100 degree weekend... things are going to be moving quickly soon... baby will be here on Oct. 16th, and I will be awaiting a call from the surgeon to schedule surgery soon after delivery, probably about 2 weeks later. This all seemed far away when this whole thing started and now I'm actually having to face it down. I hate to say, but this chemo has really been no big deal... now the "big deal" stuff starts. Which means I'm actually having to start realizing what I'm in for and the feelings that go along with that. More on that later.

 I'd like to really thank Jill at www.babyrabies.com for giving a shout out, and Danielle and Bettina at www.bestforbabes.org for setting up the donation fund.