Sorry for all the new posts....had to transfer my CarePages onto here.

Again, so sorry if you got a ton of new posts in your email. My hope is that by transferring them all in one day (and before midnight eastern time), they will all be on the same email. CarePages is shutting down tomorrow and I wanted to save my posts. It was pretty emotional reading through them at times and funny at other times when I realized how naive we were in the beginning, Although it's not something I ever thought I'd be educated on, I now know way more than I ever wanted. I'm hoping that tomorrow I can make my end of chemo/radiation post with photos. Chemo ended on 10/22 and radiation on 10/26!

It's so rad to be finished with Radiation and Chemo

Welp, rads (radiation) ended yesterday and chemo ended last Sunday (10/22/17)!! I was so excited to finish and had my 7pm appointment so that those who wanted to be there but work could go after work, but then I was called in the morning and asked to go in to see my doctor. I am happy that I did because some of my favorite techs were working during the day and wouldn't be there at night for me to get a photo with.

 I had such a great team working on me. The women totally understood how it felt when I would remove my hair piece (a head band at first that progressed into a wig) to get my head radiated, and I cried several times only to get an understanding hug. 

 This guy above was with me on day one and for the first couple of weeks, then he was moved to another machine and would be on my machine at random times.

 This is my friend Clay and he met me there during the day as he works at the hospital and wouldn't be around for my ringing of the bell. He's in a local commercial for the hospital and I thought it was funny when the nurse said he looked familiar and he responded that he worked at the hospital and then she said " you're the guy in the commercials."

 After radiation I showed off my mask to everyone who came to see me ring the bell and then I rang the bell. Followed by lots of photos!!

 My family and favorite supporters with me ringing the bell.

 Lots of friends and my uncle came to see me ring the bell, some more amazing supporters!

 Then a quick picture with the two techs who were with me on my last radiation. The man, Phil, on the left was there from the beginning, my very first day. The gal on the right started about two weeks into my treatment as she was moved to my machine. She was the one I cried to the most when my hair started falling out and she would just hug me. It's funny how much a hug can make someone feel so much better.

And then to check another thing off my bucket list, my Uncle Charlie let me ride on the back of his Harley to the ice cream shop where we stopped to get my kids a treat as a way to celebrate!!

 Once home all of my kids got a ride around our culde-sac

 Zach was so excited to ride, probably the most excited out of all my kiddos

 Ben and Josh took a ride

 And finally Faith took a ride.

 I must admit that I wasn't going to allow my kids to ride it because I always thought motorcycles were scary and dangerous. On my ride home, I was shocked at how safe I felt, so I knew my kids would be fine riding around our culde-sac!

 Cutie pies Ben (above) and Josh (below) try on the helmet I wore.

 Then, Sean, Ben, and Zach took turns sitting on the bike alone. I think Sean would be in Heaven if he had a bike, although I don't think his mom would ever let him. I would, but that is only recently (post diagnosis) as I am now under the mind frame that life is short and needs to be lived to it's fullest.

I am so grateful that this part of my journey is over! It was long and had many challenges, mostly the timing of my appointments coinciding with traffic, my being very tired (usually going to bed around 7pm or as soon as I got home from radiation).

Goodbye CarePages- CarePages

Goodbye CarePages

Posted Oct 17, 2017 3:04pm

Edit: REPOSTED FROM CAREPAGES

It seems CarePages is going out of business and all pages, including this one will be gone at the end of the month. I am going to try to transfer as much of it as I can to my blog. I know I'm horrible about keeping up with it, but I'm going to try. For future updates you can look at...

Bucketlistfamily.blogspot.com

And if want, you can sign up for email updates. I am going to try to start posting weekly, but my priority is spending time with my children, so don't get your hopes up. There are photos on there, which is cool.

On a side note, treatment is going well. I have only 8 more radiation treatments out of the 33 total treatment, ending on 10/26. And only 6 more doses of chemo, ending on 10/22. Whoop whoop, I'm so excited to be done with this part of treatment.