Hurray for the 8th of May!

Looking forward, if all goes as it has been, May 8th is the day. Sheri's final chemo day. Hurray, hurray for the 8th of May! We know not to put too much into that day, but we are goal oriented people, and it helps us to push for a line in the sand.

In late May or early June she'll go in for surgery. So we'll go right from one battle into another, but they all work toward the same goal, life without cancer. In talking to other survivors, including my Mother, it (cancer) never really leaves your thoughts. But life somewhat normal, with hair, and not doing chemo weekly sounds nice. We are well aware that this will likely be a lifelong change in our lives, but celebrating the milestone makes it bearable. You almost have to bite this off in small, manageable chunks, or it becomes too overwhelming.

All in all it was a great week. I turned 41 Saturday. I got the best gift of all with the news of Sheri's scans on Thursday. It felt good to look up from our marathon and see that we are ahead of schedule, and hear the cheers of our friends! We still have another half to go, so keep praying, together we can kick this thing.

Just a note, we started the ticker you see on the left side of the blog in December 14th (10 weeks ago), three weeks after we started the blog. We're nearing the 10,000 mark, that's kinda cool. We had no idea people would be so interested in a Kindergarten Teacher from Manson with cancer, who knew. It's a good story, with a developing happy ending! Everyone loves a good story.

Brett