Four Score and Seven Years Ago.........

Ok, well maybe not exactly four scores, but seven years ago today I married the most amazing man in the world. I am so thankful that he is the man I married. I just love him so much and he is a really loving, caring, sweet, honest, and cute guy. For our anniversary present, he bought me a Wii and a Wii Fit (and while these are very cool gifts, I would still love him just as much if he didn't buy them for me). Grace and I can't wait until it's hooked up!

Happy Anniversary, Honey! Here's to four score more! (Wow, I would be REALLY old if I made it 80 more years!!)

Look how little Rob is!!

Update #2

My mom went home today. She finally got transferred out of ICU last night around midnight, and then was told around 10am today she would be going home. She talked to her surgeon and learned that he was actually very surprised it was not a cancerous tumor, so we are very thankful he was wrong. I stopped by my mom's house and saw her and she looked A LOT better than when I had seen her in the hospital and she was moving around quite well.

Thanks to all for their thoughts and prayers!!

UPDATE

I talked to my brother and he told me that my mom was supposed to be moving from the ICU to another room on a different floor sometime tonight. I did just call the hospital to see if she has moved and she is still in ICU. My brother also said he was told the tumor was benign, so thats good news. I don't really know exactly how my mom was told it was Stage I cancer, but it seems that is NOT the case and that is great.

Prayer Request

Sorry I've yet again been too busy to continuously blog, but honestly there hasn't been much to say except that I'm busy.

Anyway, onto my prayer request. Back in August, my mom was having a colonoscopy and the doctor alerted her that there was something on her ovary that was big enough for him to notice. She proceeded to see her gynecologist, who ordered an ultrasound and determined that everything was OK and there was no need to do anything about whatever was growing on her ovary. Three weeks later she was called by her doctor to come in for a repeat ultrasound, and afterwards was presented with the same result, which left her a little confused as to why it needed to be repeated, and yet everything was fine. Then in December, she was called again by the same doctor requesting her then to get an MRI of her ovaries. Unfortunately, due to insurance reasons, my mom was unable to go at that time. Within the last month or so (I can't remember when exactly) she went in for her MRI and then had an appt to meet back with her dr for the results. Now I don't remember the exact details about how the oncologist and/or surgeon got involved, but what it came down to was she had a growth on one of her ovaries that was getting biggger and not going away. It was also unclear if it was cancerous or not, but she was advised that she needed to have a hysterectomy and was scheduled for the following week (which was about the beginning of March). My mom decided to postpone the surgery a couple of weeks, and went in Wednesday for the procedure. She is now sitting in ICU, mostly due to the fact that they have been unable to control her blood sugar. She is a diabetic on insulin, and even with the insulin so far it has been too high for their liking. Otherwise she seems to be doing well, except for being in a lot of pain. She was on a morphine pump but they took it away because she was too sleepy, so now shes on pain pills of some sort instead.

So I asked my mom today when the doctor expected the test results on the growth to come back to see if it was cancerous or not, and she tells me that it looked like it was at least Stage I. My mom was pretty groggy, so it was hard to get more information than that, and apparently that was news to my brother and step-father as well since my step-father asked why he didn't know that bit of information.

So my prayer request is that they got all the cancer out and that my mom won't need much more treatment for it, and also that she has a quick recovery.

Please pray for me as well. I have the weight of the health world on my shoulders now, and I worry about what my future holds. I seem to have inherited the genes of many possible health problems.

• Heart problems (mom and grandfather - mom's dad- who died of a heart attack)
• Diabetes (mom and grandfather- mom's dad)
• Lung Cancer (my mom's cousin)
• Breast Cancer (grandmother- mom's mom)
• Thryoid Cancer (uncle- mom's brother)
• Thyroid Disease (my mom AND dad)
• Blood pressure (my mom)

So as you can see, the odds are stacked against me as it is in the cancer department, genetically speaking. My mom is one of three children, so out of their family of five, THREE of them have or have had cancer. THREE out of FIVE. That's 60% of their immediate family. And that's not to mention that I think my mom had told me once that my dad's sister had cancer too, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

Anyway, I have a lot on my mind right now, and I'm just babbling away. If you think about it, just say a quick prayer for my mom, and for our family and our future health.

Sorry, I'm a Slacker

So I went on vacation (which was SO relaxing, by the way) and once I got back, things were crazy.....unpacking, taking care of kids who haven't seen their parents in a week, trying to get back on east coast time and catch up on sleep, trying to catch up on school work, getting back into the real world, craziness just ensued! So, I have slacked big time on my blogging.

I still don't have much to say as I am just completely busy with the kids and home life and school and everything else in between. But I do want to bring attention to the side of my blog to "My Blog List." I've added some "frugal/parent" related blogs. They are great, they give you a heads up on deals and coupons and ideas to save money, something I am really trying to work on. So have a looksey and hopefully I will blog about something with a little more substance soon.