It's been sometime since I last updated this blog and that's because life does often get in the way of things, doesn't it?
I'm not the best at keeping up with things like journals or blogs. I tend to forget about them as I have other things to do. But I always seem to come back to them at some point.
So, what's been going on since I last posted? Work and life. Mostly work. I still work on my dolls and other creative things but they did take a back seat to working. Bills don't just magically disappear when you want to sew or draw. I think they actually get together and multiply as they seem to come out of nowhere. Have you ever noticed that?
But then last year life took over even work. You can see from above I've posted a picture of myself here. I don't do that online very often for many reasons, but it will help to explain.
May 2019 I found a lump in my left breast. By September I was getting the first of the tests needed to determine what it was. By October I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Yes, life snowballed on me in a very bad and crazy way.
I started treatments and by mid November I had to stop work as Chemo and my health wasn't mixing too well with it. But 2019 wasn't done with my family yet.
December 2019 my wonderful father was Diagnosed with Stage 4 Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer. A diagnosis which we are still learning to accept all this time later as he fights it with everything in him. He is by far the strongest and most amazing man I will ever know. As of right now he is still fighting strong.
March I finished Chemo and April I had the first of Surgeries but with Corona it made things far more difficult. My Mom, who is by the way the strongest and most loving woman ever, had to go from being with my Father and I at every treatment to having to wait outside for us. This hit her hard. She isn't a woman who likes to sit back and just watch as those she loves goes through something like this. She wants to be there physically with us and can't be.
Here it is September and I've had my second surgery, gone through radiation treatments and wait to start reconstruction. When I say it's been a long year I mean it's been a really Loooooooooooooooong year.
Hopefully I can start to get back into some sort of normal soon. But either way, life will still be getting in the way I'm sure.
I'm not the best at keeping up with things like journals or blogs. I tend to forget about them as I have other things to do. But I always seem to come back to them at some point.
So, what's been going on since I last posted? Work and life. Mostly work. I still work on my dolls and other creative things but they did take a back seat to working. Bills don't just magically disappear when you want to sew or draw. I think they actually get together and multiply as they seem to come out of nowhere. Have you ever noticed that?
But then last year life took over even work. You can see from above I've posted a picture of myself here. I don't do that online very often for many reasons, but it will help to explain.
May 2019 I found a lump in my left breast. By September I was getting the first of the tests needed to determine what it was. By October I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Yes, life snowballed on me in a very bad and crazy way.
I started treatments and by mid November I had to stop work as Chemo and my health wasn't mixing too well with it. But 2019 wasn't done with my family yet.
December 2019 my wonderful father was Diagnosed with Stage 4 Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer. A diagnosis which we are still learning to accept all this time later as he fights it with everything in him. He is by far the strongest and most amazing man I will ever know. As of right now he is still fighting strong.
March I finished Chemo and April I had the first of Surgeries but with Corona it made things far more difficult. My Mom, who is by the way the strongest and most loving woman ever, had to go from being with my Father and I at every treatment to having to wait outside for us. This hit her hard. She isn't a woman who likes to sit back and just watch as those she loves goes through something like this. She wants to be there physically with us and can't be.
Here it is September and I've had my second surgery, gone through radiation treatments and wait to start reconstruction. When I say it's been a long year I mean it's been a really Loooooooooooooooong year.
Hopefully I can start to get back into some sort of normal soon. But either way, life will still be getting in the way I'm sure.