I noted today that I have come full circle with my blog! If you click on “archives” you’ll see that I started this blog in November 2007, and now here it is November 2008! And what a year it has been…. As I scrolled through last November’s posts I couldn’t stop the smile that came [...]
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Light The Night in Fort Worth
October 15, 2008 – 8:29 am
I wanted to give everyone an update on the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Light the Night Walk that I participated in this past weekend. I was able to raise over $900, which was almost DOUBLE my goal!!! Thank you so very much to each person who donated. Words cannot tell you how thankful I am [...]
bad dreams….
August 25, 2008 – 10:31 pm
I woke up in a panic this morning.
I had a dream last night that my husband deployed to Iraq and I missed being able to say goodbye to him. When I woke up, it took me a minute to assess reality and calm my pounding heart. And then I began to think about the [...]
light the night
July 24, 2008 – 5:10 pm
As many of you know, my husband, Rich, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma back in November of last year, five months to the day after we were married. Following his diagnosis was a whirlwind of Dr. appointments, tests, surgeries, days filled with chemotherapy, and then radiation, etc, which would keep us busy for the next [...]
taco
July 3, 2008 – 10:21 pm
So, I have a bird named Taco….what can I say? I got him when I was 14 years old and I thought Taco was the coolest name ever for a bird. Anyway, he is a Maroon-Bellied Conure with attitude. Seriously, I feel like I have had a 2 year old for about 15 [...]
close to my heart
May 14, 2008 – 4:18 am
A year ago a beautiful young woman, Alese Coco, lost her fight against Hodgkins Lymphoma. She went through the typical ABVD chemotherapy treatment that my husband, Rich, has just gone through, but she relapsed several months later. She then had a stem cell transplant (this is standard for all HL patients who relapse), followed by [...]