A hug from my doctor

Well here it is November and like always I am not even ready to think about the holidays and all that needs to be done. I am happy to say that my living room and dining room make over (hahaha that sounds so simple) is complete...YAY. I love the results and I'm having fun decorating. I was able to get some fall decorating in and I'm looking forward to decorating for Christmas. While all those ideas bounce around in my head I haven't any ideas about gifts this year...I better start shopping soon or I'll be going crazy at the last min.

I went to see my GI doc last month. My first time since my cancer surgery and treatment. I was happy to report to my doc that my Crohns beast has been very well behaved and dare I say better then pre cancer treatment. I think the chemo put it in its place (for a while anyway). My doc is so wonderful. At the end of my appointment he gave me a big hug and told me how glad he was to see how well I'm doing after the cancer treatment. He even got chocked up. He's the best.

Of course I was given my yearly to do list of blood work and tests that need done and doctors that need seen :( I went right away and got all my blood work...I haven't scheduled anything else yet...shame on me. Next week I promise.

BTW I am one year cancer free as of October 22nd Woo Hoo! Check out my other blog to see a few pics from the past year.

Love, laugh, and always know where the nearest bathroom is

How to deal with an empty nest 101

My nest is now empty for the school year. B moved in with his brother and they started their classes on Aug. 22nd. We took them out to dinner on the 24th for J's birthday and on the 26th I hopped in the car with my hubby and tagged along on his business trip to FL....4 days on the beach....



The view from our room



We've come here 3 times with the kids.





I love love love it here and it was very nice (strange without J and B) but I couldn't wait to get back home! Why you ask??? To meet my brand new beautiful great niece G. She was suppose to arrive the end of September with me by her mommies side but she had her own plans and decided she wanted to have an August birthday...August 27th to be exact.



So now I am spending lots of time with G in her nest :)

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Well its been a while since I've written a post. With B graduating and all the high school and summer baseball...well it was just very overwhelming and exhausting. May brought a lot of senior events and graduation of course. The high school baseball season came to an end. Unfortunately the team did not do very well. Brian had a good season and made the Wpial all star team. We are so proud of him. J finished up his 3rd year of college. He rehabed an injured shoulder all season so he redshirted for the season and now will be eligible to play in a fifth year of school. B will be joining him at school this Friday and they will now get to play two years of college ball together. B coasted right into summer ball after hs ball. The game schedule was very busy with very few breaks. During all this we also had a problem with our dining room ceiling...part of it fell onto my china closet! So we have been under construction in the dining and living room for the past 4 months...ugh! Right after B's graduation party in June I had my last plastic surgery. It went very well and I'm so happy to be done. Then my laptop died...wonderful! I still haven't gotten a new one and have been using my phone for almost everything, including this post, bc my hubbys laptop is painfully slow. Through all this my gut has been so so. Nothing toooooo bad, the stress of the last 4 months has not been very helpful. I don't expect the fall to be much better with both my boys being away at school. So that's whats been happening with me. I hope you have all been well and I will not take so long to post again.
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