And somethings you just don't expect. This is Marvin posting. To say this last week has been eventful would be an understatement. SPOILER ALERT.....THIS POST WILL BE LONG. Beep is handing over the reigns to me again to update you guys on what has been going on. This will be informational and sometimes hard for you as readers to understand. The emotional, mental, physical and spiritual hardships that this terrible disease puts you through. We also had committed to keeping it real no matter how difficult the information would be. So, Beep mentioned that her first chemo treatment was February 7th and for the most part things went really well. There were some side effects but we thought to ourselves, "Hey, that wasn't too bad, we can do this thing.We were chugging along taking it one day at a time and dealing with her symptoms as they came about and were managing to stay up on them for the most part. She was having some pain, some nausea, some headaches and some dizzines...

OK, so I had my #1 CHEMO treatment last Wednesday February 7th 2018.   It's been over a week. I'm going to give you the short version of my week.  So the first few days I felt like I was "testing the waters" so to speak. I had the side effects of a crazy headache & nausea. That might not sound like much to some, but to a Cancer patient it is huge. Long story short... I was able to find the right balance of meds that worked for me, to help me feel better. Then I reached "days 3-5" which they say is when the bad days show up. Man...they weren't kidding! Lets just say...I was in pain and I cried a lot (I don't want to share every single gory detail).😉 Then when I was at my lowest point (Marvin and the kids were at work and school, so I was kinda going through this by myself) my cuzzie Helen just showed up. She brought me some natural organic fruits and this stuff called KEFIR, and she made me a smoothie for me to drink. It wasn...

I love this quote. I think it fits my situation perfectly.  I think I needed some prioritizing in my life. And I absolutely love it when a storm comes through and clears the air. A few weeks back when I met my Medical Oncologist, I told him I need some beach time before starting Chemo. And asked to push it back a week.  Majority of my family are traveling to or already in New Zealand for our big Family trip to give my grandparents a (unveiling) headstone.  This was the trip I was devastated when I realized I would have to miss.  So Hawaii is it. I got my much needed BEACH TIME and we made some awesome memories. The travel for me wasn't super fun, painful and uncomfortable to say the least. I had my doc prescribe the anti-nausea patch which made this trip possible for me, YAY! This was our theme song for our trip. It rained here and there but we didn't care it was still 80 degrees and we still were on a beach. I ...