survivinglife

Surviving Life 

A bump in life’s road continued 

Hello everyone.  I wanted to continue on with my last post that was on January 2, 2009.  In 2004, David’s mother, Marilynn passed away from her lung cancer.  We bought her house, and slowly started getting back to our lives.  Kids both started new schools, our son, high school, and our daughter, middle school.  Things were settling down and getting back to normal.  It was February 1, 2006, once again, life as we knew it changed.  I was diagnosed with stage 3 cervical cancer.  What a blow, cancers in two people of the same family within 2 years of each other.  On David’s side of the family, every one of his relatives died of cancer, parents, grandparents, even great grandparents.  This was too close; too hard to deal with, too soon.  Our kids had only seen cancer kill.  They hadn’t known anyone who had survived cancer.  I had to be the one that survived.  A radical hysterectomy could not be done, because the tumor was too large, pressing on the bladder.   Radiation and Chemotherapy were my next steps in the treatment plan.