Today is the one year to the day when Sara was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer in the ER at Bonner General Hospital. On this day, one year later, we have plenty to celebrate and be thankful for.
She is back to work full speed ahead. Has Trevor taking super good care of her. {and lookin' dang good at it} Feels 'absolutely fabulous'. And is looking way forward to a fantastic future.
Still doing chemo to keep the cancer under control, but otherwise she is free to do what ever she pleases. We are so happy to have ended up in Seattle with the most wonderful Doctor, Dr. Lin.
I am going back through all of the information we collected and I can see where we made some literally life and death decisions. You don't know it at the time, because hind sight is 20/20. But the people who were running along side us the whole way were helping steer us to this fantabulous day.
February 7, 2012. Thank-you.
posted by Colleen
I have been reliving the whole thing these last few days. I can't believe how stressful last year was. Stressful like, "How did I survive without a prescription?" I can still feel the echo of my heart pounding in my chest and never being able to breathe properly. I think we were all holding our breath until Dec 22, 2011.
ReplyDeleteI am so thankful we got to right path despite the terrible setbacks and just plain shock. Never let a scary diagnosis keep you from fighting!! It's a great day!!!!!
I'm not sure if I said this before, but i love you guys.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to believe that a year has gone by... I wonder if for you all it was the longest or shortest year of your life?? Longest as if every day must have drug on forever especially for Sara being in so much pain and agony literally fighting for her life OR shortest as if it was all such a whirlwind of events from start to now to just keep your heads above the water when everything was happening in the blink of an eye.... Probably both... I know for myself there were a lot of tears, a lot of fear, a lot of hope, a lot of prayers, and a lot of very vivid dreams that were coming from the earliest days of my life with all of you... It was amazing how for me all of a sudden I was thinking about things that I didn't even know I remembered... I realized that EVERY single memory I have in my being from the time I was 5 years old has Sara in it!!! Every "first" I share with her (and Sarah)...Literally 3 peas in a pod were we!!!! Even though as the last 15 or so years have gone by and we have grown and lived our lives not always as tight as we were back in the day, I realized that she is literally part of the fiber of my being..... Growing up, experiencing everything together for so long from such a young age is quite a profound experience... I don't think most people ever get to even know what that is like... I feel so blessed that all of us girls got that... And to still all be in each others lives today is amazing! I don't know too many people who can honestly say they even still know anyone who they met the first day of Kindergaden let alond still be friends with them... It is an honor... From frolicking in the lady slippers to picking raspberries and thimbleberries down by the river to belting out Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart through the microphone (which was sooooo fun)in your moms black leather boots, to making forts with the sheets over the heater vents to loving to write on your big chalk board to basketball practices at Stoneridge to driving the Chavette in circles around the driveway which then led to stealing the crummies and going farther (ssshhh don't tell Jerry) to walking on the logs and having diving contests on the diving board at the Access and always for some reason loving to snoop around Raunchy Russ's house to getting my face drawn all over with black sharpie MERMANENT marker to cross country skiing in the Peterson field to being so excited and seeing Footloose when it came out at the Roxie Theater to roller skating at Skate Plaza for all my birthdays and on and on and on...things sortof become a blur around puberty but I think that was the time we were trying to smoking tea bags in the furnace room!!!! HA HA!!! (just kidding, sortof)... What a fun life!!!! Thank you Colleen for sitting Sara next to me on that frightful day! Sara, I love you forever!!! In this life and the next whenever that comes for either of us, you will always be a part of my soul!!! No matter how near or far we are!!! And isn't it interesting that I would be the one to introduce you to Trevor?? I hope that for all of the years of friendship that we have shared if he is the one for you, I am absolutely honored that my life led to me know him and bring him to you... hhhmmmm master plan???? You never know, I do know that my faith grows stronger every day and you are a walking testimony that there is something more powerful than we know capable of performing miracles and we have been given the most amazing tools, knoweledge and medicine to help our bodies maintain health for our spirits to enjoy this life as long as we are meant to~ I will never forget the txt you sent me when you first were feeling sick "Hi I'm sorry I'm not feeling good... Lots of crazy stuff going on... When they say 'Here's to your health' I think we often take it for granted....Luv you too..." HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH LOVE~ ALWAYS! Star xoxox
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