Results are in

I got the call today from my doctor. I have early stage colon cancer. I am being referred to my surgeon for laproscopic surgery. He said he feels I should have a favorable outcome.

Bumpy times

Things have been pretty bumpy for the past few weeks and I find myself in yet another health crisis. I was sent for a colonoscopy this week due to some alarming symptoms. It was discovered that I have a 2 inch polyp that they could not remove during the procedure because it was so high up and in the back part of my colon. I will now need to have surgery as soon as possible. All of this while still undergoing treatment for breast cancer. I am waiting for the biopsy to come back and should know the results next week.Then the surgery will have to be coordinated around the breast cancer treatments. 

It will be a year at the end of March when I was diagnosed with the breast cancer. I was feeling on an upswing from all of the treatment and ignored the warning signs that something else was going on. I was hoping the symptoms would just go away. I couldn't deal. But finally I couldn't ignore the warning signs anymore and made the appointments.

Now I am back at taking it one step at a time, trying to go deep and find the energy to gear up for another surgery in the very near future. I am praying the surgery is all I need to take care of this problem. Please continue to keep me in your thoughts and prayers. 

Hair today

I had a great weekend. My son and his girl came down from Rhode Island for an over night so we invited my older son and his wife to come over and we all had dinner together on Friday night. I just love being with the kids and to have them all together. It feels like old times and new times, too. I love the women that my sons have chosen and how well everyone gets along.

On Sunday morning I went along with my husband to do the church run with his mom. Because I was in the car this week, my MIL was all sweetsie to my husband. So that was a good thing. We dropped her off and then decided to go out for brunch and do some shopping at Whole Foods while we had time to kill. It worked out perfectly. Next weekend his brother is coming to take his turn.

I went today to get my first post-chemo haircut! My hair has come back more thick on top than it used to be. I wasn't sure if I even had enough hair to cut, but my kids said that I did. And I sure enough did as the hairdresser took off about an inch in the back where it was all scraggley, and just trimmed the top a little bit. She even used the curling iron even though she didn't get much hair around it.

I am thinking I MIGHT ditch the wig tomorrow and unveil the new do. I am feeling uplifted by a simple haircut, but when you haven't had hair it means so much!