Life Between Chemo

Yesterday I had chemo.   While receiving treatment I realized I hadn't updated you all since our last trip to Houston.  I started updating everyone on my blog because it seemed easier to update everyone at once instead of being asked 100 different times over the next two weeks. And then it brought me to thinking about when I first started my blog.  I started it to share my experiences as a farmer's wife with you.  Life on the farm with my best friend, raising calves, growing wheat, and just enjoying life.  Then we had kids and I tried to continue sharing life with you although maybe not quiet as often as before.  I tried, I really did!

The more I got to thinking about it the more it kinda bothered me.  Chemo, does not define who I am.  There is a lot of life being lived between Chemos.  Hollywood has done an excellent job on using cancer for a romantic, tear jerking platform for making money.  Does cancer sometimes end badly?  Yes!  Do people sometimes become hospitalized due to cancer or complications due to cancer?  You bet!  Is cancer scary and serious?  Absolutely!  I believe that due to all the news and Hollywood, we automatically associate the word cancer with pictures of people desperately ill and hospitals, and doctors and everyone walking around sad.  That is NOT all there is to cancer.

In our house, there is a lot of life being lived between chemo.  Lately I may not be out in the public  much; but that's just to keep from picking up germs that could possibly delay any treatments.  My life is great.  We have so much fun.  I play outside with the boys.  We play hide and seek in the house.  We go to the farm with Landon.  I even go for walks and occasionally ride horses.  I don't dwell on the fact that I have cancer.  I cannot do anything about that fact.  I have doctors that are working on it and a God that has everything under control.  So, except for the days I have chemo and other miscellaneous doctor appointments, I work hard to make it a habit to not think about cancer.  I work hard to live life the way I lived it before cancer.

I am blessed.  I have an amazing husband who takes care of me and two wonderful children that make life absolutely amazing!

God has given me a lot to be thankful for.  And I want to make sure that I don't take for granted any minute of this Wonderfully blessed life God has given me.

I hope your life is as blessed as mine!

Amy