Training For A Run Made Me Mentally Strong
Training For The Disney Half Today I ran with my TNT Team. My plan was to run 8 miles. I'm focused on training now for the Disney half marathon. I should have been focused weeks ago but there was so much uncertainty about what I would be able to do during and after...
Negativity & Faith While Battling Cancer
Early Morning Run Good morning world. It's 6:40 and pitch black outside still. I must be a little delusional. I planned to run 5 miles around 6:15 and thought I would go early so I could go to Pilates at 9. I started last week and loved it. Great core workout....
Chemo Brain Is A Real Thing
Metal Mouth, Chemo Brain, Such Fun It's been 5 days since round 2. I feel OK. Not great, but OK. Every day seems to get better. A couple of things that I have noticed that have been consistent with the first round, metal mouth and chemo brain. First, metal mouth. I...
Chemo Round 2
Of course the shirt I chose is the first-ever ME STRONG shirt! I know the quality of this picture isn't great but had to share! No Scan But Hopeful It's Working We got to MD Anderson around 7:45 am to see Dr. Westin at 8 prior to starting round 2. The meeting...
Back to Houston
Leaving The Boys Is Brutal It's been an up and down week. Because I was leaving for Houston so early this morning the boys went home from school with their friend's families yesterday. I was very sad to leave them. Heartbreaking. They seemed ok with everything but it...
My Son’s Pain Is Heartbreaking
Moving Forward The excitement of the race planning from Monday carried over throughout the week. Meeting with the Mayor, and Vickie who is doing our website and social media networking. Lots of emails about the vision and mission of ME STRONG as well as logistics...
Training For The Race Of My Life
cancer Is Not Welcome In My Bones I have never been an athlete. It doesn't come easy to me but as the birthdays come and go it is more and more a necessity to stay in shape. One day prior to my first chemo treatment I was running. I wasn't sure at that point if the...
Exercise And My Victory Run
Running or Gym? Exercise is very important to me so my plan was to run with my 5 am group this morning, however, it's been raining since Friday and there were predictions for early showers today too so I decided to go to the gym. Once the morning got going I decided...
Rumors
Way To Go Autocorrect A funny thing has been happening on the autocorrect of my phone. Every time I type "tumors", it changes it to "rumors". Isn't that great? cancer doesn't have enough pull with autocorrect to get enough respect to have the word tumor recognized! I...
Looking Good
Looking Great Going To The Lab, It's The Small Things I feel like I went on a big field trip today. My big outing was to have blood drawn to check my white blood cell counts. Subsequently, if they get too low I have to be extra careful about being around people who...
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