“What is the biggest moment you have experienced that has changed your life?”

When I was diagnosed with lung cancer in April 2009.  It really made me take a good look at my life and appreciate all that I have and my family and friends! 

I am blessed!

“If tomorrow morning you woke up ten years younger, what would be the first thing that you would do?”

Quit smoking immediately!!

       “If you were limited to having only one electrical outlet in your home, what device would you plug into it?”

That’s hard.  My first thought was my computer.  Then I started  thinking – oh crap – what about cooking?  And the refrigerator?  They both need electricity.   Hmmmm – not sure about this one!

I just can’t seem to do this blogging every day or even every week.   But I guess I can keep trying. 

 I had my last chemo on August 24th – YEAH!!!!!  Had a CT scan on Sept 2nd.  All looks good so I don’t have to go back for 6 months.  I am blesssed.

Charlie and I took a quick trip (3 days) to Myrtle Beach last weekend.  It was good just to get away after the summer we’ve had.  I would still love to take a trip up north but not sure if we’ll make that one or not this year.

I was going to try to do better at this blogging thingy but I’ve been having a rough time lately. I had my first chemo treatment on June 15th and have been nausead all week. I had the second one yesterday and I feel better today. Hopefully I’ll get better now for a couple of weeks until I have to have another. I’ll have a total of 8 treatments with a week off between each 2. I should be done with them by the end of August. Please keep my in your prayers.

Strickly by chance my family doctor did a chest x-ray on me on April 2nd and found a spot on my left lung.  He sent me the next day for a CT scan and then to a surgeon the next week.  After a lot of tests, etc I was admitted to the hospital last Friday, May 1st and had most of my left lung removed.   The doctor is sure he got all the cancer (and YES it was non-small cell carcinoma) and none showed up in my lymph nodes.  I was in the hospital for a week – finally got to come home yesterday.  Now I have to heal and in a month I’ll meet with an oncologist.  I’m hoping I won’t have to have chemo but if I do – I’ll deal with it.   Needless to say – as of April 17th I no longer smoke!  Charlie quit over a year ago so I was the last holdout.

For those of you who knew our Fluffy - she went to doggy heaven a year ago at the age of fifteen and a half. 

We now have a 15 lb poodle name CoCo.  He’s all boy!!  Here’s a  picture of him:

My sweet boy

I can’t believe it’s been almost 2 years since I last posted here.  At the end of February 2007 we moved from Georgia to Lincolnton NC.  We live about 6 miles from our grandchildren now and see them quite a lot.  They love our in ground pool.  <grin>

I will try to update this thing more often and posts some pictures soon.

I’m sorry I haven’t written here in a long time.  So much has been going on in my life.  A lot of changes.

First – Traci and Chris moved out into their own apartment the first of October.  That’s great for both us and them.  Peace here again finally!

Then – we decided to sell our house and move back to North Carolina to be nearer the grandkids.  We listed the house the first of November and got a contract on it yesterday.  So now we have 35 days to get out.  We’ve decided to buy a house that is under construction at the moment and it should be ready by the first or second week of February.  Needless to say I’ll be very busy for a while plus at some point I’ll be without internet access for probably at least a month.

Well, I fell in love this weekend.  With our 20 month old grand daughter, Katie.  My stepdaughter, Candy, moved to California about 8 years ago, met Kenny and got married and had Katie in December 2004.  They just recently moved back to North Carolina and they came down and spent this weekend with us.  It was the first time we got to meet Kenny and darling Katie.  Oh my goodness.  She is such a sweetheart.  She loves the water, loved going on the boat, loved riding on the ATVs and is so smart.  I’m sure she loves her Nana as much as I love her.  <grin>  I took lots of pictures and will post some here maybe tomorrow.