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I am writing this Sunday evening.I sat down to read the comments from the blog and this one from Marcy caught my attention:“Hi I saw your post and was hoping for an update to your blood tests to see what your markers are after chemo. I love your quilting and needlework. I think about you …

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 This morning Patrick and I slept in. We didn't feel like getting up. So, it felt good to just relax and not worry about anything. 

When we did get up, we got moving. Then we watched a couple shows. I decided I needed to finish the beading on the berries. 

It is now finished. I'm happy with it. It's not the best. I did learn a lot from this piece. 

I was thinking I could put this on a "trinket box" but then Patrick said he wasn't that crazy about it. He did like it but ...

 This morning it was raining. Patrick decided not to go golfing. I don't blame him. I was able to get up and shower with little help today. 

Having heart surgery isn't all that fun. There are ups and downs with going through "grief" at times. I don't know if I'm there yet, but I do know I am moody at times. More in the direction of "let's get done with this!" I'm not in the "poor me" stage. I don't see any need to be there. 

Patrick needed gas in the truck and ...

 This morning, we were allowed to sleep in. lol - AND when that happens, I can't! 

I played a few games and was getting ready to meet up with Carol for doing the veteran phone calls again. She texted me, to say she couldn't do it after all. So, I decided not to go with Patrick to check on his appointment to see if the radiology would work on his liver. 

While he was gone, I worked on vacuuming and beading. I also kept my eye on my game. Even had the audiobook going. Just as I was enjoying ...

 This morning we had to go to Olympia for another one of my doctors appointments. It went really well. I'm healthy and things are looking good. We talked about everything going on. She's one of the best doctors I've had, and I have had a lot. 

After that we headed to Rochester, to the Lucky Eagle Casino. We stayed a little longer than last time, but the slots are really tight. It's frustrating. We were there about an hour and a half. Patrick needed to go. He was getting bored of the rain and bored of ...

 Today was Patrick's cancer appointments. One on zoom and one on the phone. 

The zoom meeting was with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. He was very informative. I liked the doctor. He had ideas of what Patrick could do next. There are things he will try. I had the feeling this is just to keep him alive. We are on 3 years of this. It's hard to listen to at times. But then other times are uplifting. This one, was having me question things in my mind. 

Then in the afternoon his cancer doctor. That went well ...

I thought I would continue with a little check-in and let you know how my cancer treatment is going. As of today, I am on day 19 of oral chemo. How’s it going…meh. On Sunday the face acne kicked in. All of the little red dots are the start of zips that were forming. About …

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I’ve started working on having Thankful Thursday posts…it’s just a random post of things that happened during my week that I am thankful for. It started after I’ve been reading The Frugal Girl blog and she has a feature called Thankful Thursday. This week I am thankful for how far I’ve come on my cancer …

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This morning Patrick was off golfing. I decided to walk, but when I finally got out there, it started raining. So, halfway through it rained. I decided to keep going till I got my 3 laps in. Came in with a wet coat and pants. lol Yep, it's Washington weather!

Then I played games. When Patrick came home and decided to nap on the couch, I decided to stitch. 

I was able to get more stitches in. 

Then I remembered I had to check in with my appointment on Friday. As I was doing it, I was getting upset ...

Today I was up early. I let Patrick sleep in. Not sure if he is going golfing tomorrow or not. He's been thinking about it, but I think it's supposed to rain again. 

We went to my surgeon appointment today. All is good. They got all the cancer and now I need to see my radiation oncologist. I'm not liking the idea of radiation and will see on Friday if I am going to do it or not. I talked with a couple people that had it, and it doesn't sound good for some, and it ...

 This morning I was up and feeling a lot better. I did help out a little with house work. Patrick was on it all day. He even worked on laundry. 

This afternoon was our Brazilian embroidery sew group via zoom. It's a fun group and we get along great. It's fun to see what everyone is working on. 

 Today Patrick went golfing. As for me, I felt awful. I did notice one of my eye lids is drooping enough that I can tell. It's like a shade over a corner of my eye. 

I put on and off the ice all day. It has been painful. I'm dealing with it, but it's uncomfortable. At least the area under my arm pit that I was having trouble with is not a problem and seems to be going down. 

As for the pain, I am also itchy. Being itchy is worse than the pain to me! I ...

 I didn't sleep the best, but I did get a good night's sleep. My arm pit and boob hurt. It's not the funniest thing in the world. 

Of all days, today is Patrick's Birthday! He even had a dentist appointment for his Birthday! UGH

I pretty much had my Tylenol and Ibuprofen trading places all day. I tried not to take it but every 6 hours. Don't want to depend on drugs to get me through this pain. I also had ice packs under my arm off and on all day. I'm going to ...

 Yesterday I had surgery to remove more of the area where the cancer in my beast was. It was a 2 pm appointment. We arrived at 1 pm and found out I would go in till 3 pm. So, Patrick could walk around and try to find things to do. 

When I got in there, I told the Dr. that "puts me out" that I wanted the same thing we did last time. This was a different doctor. So, he gave me the same stuff, but he also gave me the nausea medication. Without thinking, I took it. That is ...

 Patrick had his MRI and CAT scan this morning. We were up and out the door by 7:45 am. We arrived at Kaiser where they took him in the first time - which was a good half hour wait. When he came out they gave him the "barium" for the next one. We had to wait an hour and a half before they would take him back in. So, after about an hour, I went and walked around Kaiser. Then when I came back in, he hadn't gone back in yet. It was long after though. 

We came home ...

This morning I was up earlier than I have been getting up. I had 2 phone calls from Kaiser today. One to go over my surgery on Tuesday. 

Then I got laundry going. I'm happy to say, I actually did 3 loads! lol - Patrick went golfing and was home before noon. He had been itching to go golfing since they closed the course for a week. The weather was either too cold or raining too much. We had freezing weather in there as well. So, when he came home, he crashed on the couch and slept for a good ...

Today I woke to snow. 

Had my video chat with my oncologist. She could see me but I couldn't see her. She's going to try and get that fixed for the next visit. She had my surgery date before I did. We talked about what we may or may not do. I have to see a radiologist to see if they are going ...

Today I was up and ready to get moving. Patrick was telling me I need to do more than just play games. Debbie was coming over today at 11. I decided to go out when she leaves. 

I called the nurse to let her know the results where there. She had the surgeon call me. Everything looks good - but there is a question on the "margins" of what was taken out. They think they got it all, but need to be sure since I wasn't in the "margins." So, now I wait to see when the next surgery is ...

Here’s the latest update about treating my thyroid cancer that has metastasized to my lungs and spine. I had told you all earlier that after our family went to the waterpark after Christmas I got notification that the oral chemo I needed to get the ball rolling for treatment was finally approved by my insurance. …

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This morning I decided to go to my Brazilian Embroidery meeting. 

Before I even got out the door - 

Our meeting was just Sandy and me. We had such a good time! I didn't take anything to work on, but we chatted the whole time. I did work on getting my word chart done for the Christmas ornaments for this year. I need to get those done so I can start working on them. I will do more later. 

Came ...