Baby it's cold outside!

About a year ago we started applying for kindergarten for Baby Chang.  I say that like we were trying to get into some fancy private school.  No just trying to pick the best public school option.  In Houston there are magnet schools within the public school system that you can apply to go to even if it is not your neighborhood school.  After much debate and fingernail biting we decided on the school that was in fact our neighborhood school.  Top on my list of reasons was that we could walk to school.  This has quickly become the best part of my day.  Baby Chang and I spend the 15 minute walk talking, singing, making up games.  It is quality time for just the two of us.  Some days it's the only time we have together because of my work schedule.

Today however it was 37 degrees outside when we woke up.  I decided that perhaps it would be a good day to drive, yes I have become a wuss when it comes to the cold.  As we drove to school it hit me that because of how school drop-off works we wouldn't get our usual hug and kiss goodbye.  When I mentioned that to Baby Change she decided that walking to school was way better than driving, even when it's cold.  So even though the trip to school was considerably shorter today I already know it was the best part of my day!

CELEBRATION!!!

The PET Scan was clear!!!!!!  Sadly I was counting chickens before they hatched yesterday and discovered I still have one more PET in a year.  Rather than dwelling on that though I'm choosing to do a happy dance about the PET results.

It's That Time of Year!

It is that time of year again where the doctor appointments begin to pile up as I get ready for all my annual check-ups.  Though this year is a little more that just follow-ups.  Last week I had what will hopefully be a final PET Scan and tomorrow I find out the results.  Though both my Oncologist and my Radiation Oncologist have said I am theoretically cured tomorrow is the five year scan.  With Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma three years is the bench mark for a cure rather than five with most cancers; or so I've been told.  Tomorrow will be the official "You're Cured!"  As of tomorrow I will (fingers crossed) be a official survivor! 

I will follow-up with you all tomorrow...

National Cancer Survivor's Day!

So I'm a couple days late with this but HAPPY NATIONAL CANCER SURVIVOR'S DAY!

Today I celebrated by working out, taking Baby Chang to the pool and eating a bowl of chocolate ice cream.  Today was a day like most other summer days in our house.  Which in my opinion is the best way to celebrate being a survivor.

Though I'm not cured officially I am close.  Yet, cancer is a part of my daily life.  It is why I am trying to workout more and eat healthier everyday.  It is why I blow my nose more than the average person.  It is why when Baby Chang sees me changing clothes she points out my second belly button.  It is why whenever I hear of someone being diagnosed a part of my heart breaks for them.

So on National Cancer Survivor's Day I will be grateful for all of those things.  I will be grateful that I got to celebrate Baby Chang's 5th Birthday and plan to see many more.  I will be grateful that I was here to see Prairie Dad make his debut at two Houston theaters.  I will be grateful that in two weeks I will be vacationing with my family in North Carolina.  I will be grateful that I don't know where I want to be in five years but I actually get to figure it out.

So to all of the SURVIVORS be grateful and celebrate the best way you know how!  Perhaps I will have a second bowl of ice cream...