Within this blog are the adventures of CancerGIrl and her Service Dog (SD for short) CancerGirl is a 32 year old woman who has been married for almost 15 years to a wonderful man, (we call him SH for short)
She has degenerative Disk Disease, and scoliosis. She was diagnosed with Uterine Cancer in July 2009.
This blog is her daily adventures of going to school, undergoing cancer treatment, founding a Non Profit ( http://www.hatsforhappiness.org/ ) and trying to maintain a marriage.
Hello everyone. I know there haven't been any posts since SuperDog wrote and introduced you all to her new trainee. I just wanted to write you all and give you a little bit of an update on what has been going on.
Well, Hats For Happiness is building strength. We have been sending out hats for a while now, and we are at the Route 75 Flea Market every Sunday spreading the word and selling donated items to fund raise for Hats For Happiness.
CancerGirl also went and had lunch with SuperFriendLynne and was finally able to get her Christmas gift to her. She absolutely LOVED the pillow and as you can see from the picture below it truly put a smile on her face!! You can click on the picture for a link to the pillow on the www.cafepress.com store This pillow makes a great gift and can be purchased through CafePress.com. It is perfect to give to your favorite CancerSuperHero or CancerSuperCaregiver. It could even be given to your SuperOncologist as a gift. This pillow is soo much softer then I ever thought it would be. SuperFriendLynne also told me last night that it has a removable cover that removes easily for washing, so it is great as a pillow to be used because you don't have to worry about not being able to clean it. I myself am going to get myself a SuperFriendPillow!!!
CancerGirl also started school again for this semester. She is taking Counseling the Culturally Diverse which is a 2 hour and 40 minute once a week class.
You can see my notes and listen to the lecture by clicking the video above. I love my Livescribe 2 GB Pulse Smartpen and use it to take my notes. It is great for all different types of applications. Meetings for business people. Taking notes and recording sessions for those int he psychology field. Definitely check out this pen it is well worth it.
I am also taking a class in Personal Growth and Development which is an online class. I am really looking forward to this class as well as they both seem like they will push me to the limits of exploring more and more about myself and who I am. I love those types of challenges.
Well. SuperHubby will be getting up to go to work at the UnitedPayingSquadron (where SH goes to work to make money to keep the lights on at the lair) so I better go and make sure his SuperHero Uniform is clean and ready to go!!
For those of you who follow CancerGirl on FaceBook know that she just recently finished recieving the ACS (AntiCancerSerum) to kill her Ovarian Cancer. She defeated the EvilMelanomaMan and was finally able to take a breath ad relax a little..... That is until she woke up the day after her birthday with a sore on her breast. For about 2 weeks CG had a scaly itchy spot on her breast. She didn't really think much of it, figured with all the chemo and such, she probably just had some dry skin. When she woke up the day after her birthday and in the place where it was itchy and scaly there was now a large (well large to CancerGirl, SuperOncologist said it was relatively small) purpley sore that was red and painful. be breast cancer. CancerGirl didn't think of Breast Cancer, she had never heard of Breast Cancer being on the outside, she does Breast Self Exams every month, gosh she just had A LOT of Chemo, it couldn'tSuperHubby sent CancerGirl off to see SUperOncologist, because well, he was concerned.
Super Oncologist said "It is a sore, it is not cancer, it is possibly from all the chemo, it is possibly just a boil, we will keep an eye on it". CancerGirl was satisfied with that answer, she trusts SuperOncologist explicitly. A few more days went by and it began to hurt a little more and got harder and it was beginning to hurt radiating from the sore. CG began to do something she tries her best to refrain from doing when it comes to health related stuff concerning herself, she RESEARCHED. It made sense to do so. We are oniGive and CG figured what the heck, why not do some research and earn a penny a search!!!! She began with the site Women's Fitness where they said on their site :
Possible symptoms of breast cancer include:
A lump or thickening in or near the breast or in the underarm area.
A change in the size or shape of the breast.
Thickening, swelling, distortion, or tenderness of the breast
Skin irritation or dimpling
Nipple pain, scaliness, ulceration, or retraction.
A change in the way the skin of the breast, areola, or nipple looks or feels (for example, warm, swollen, red, or scaly).
Swelling or lump in armpit.
Breast pain is commonly due to benign conditions and is usually not the first symptom of breast cancer.
OMG, red, scaly, ulceration!!! I have those!! How far of a reach is it really that after finding cancer 2 places in the last 2 years, there is also Cancer in my breast.
But, as all good researchers know, you cant make a decision based on ONE source, better check this out....off to the Breast Cancer Page on Cedars Sinai :
Symptoms
The signs of breast cancer include:
Lump or thickening that does not go away or that changes.
Swelling, puckering or dimpling of the breast
Skin irritation
Pain or tenderness of the nipple
The first symptom men usually notice is a painless lump. Other symptoms might include nipple discharge (possibly bloody), nipple retraction and skin ulceration.Ok, the ulceration is under CG breast, not the nipple, but still. SO said that it would come to a head and would discharge once the pressure of the infection breaks through, or he could try and nick it with a scalpel and see if that releases some of the puss. He suggested hot compresses but they just made it hurt worse afterward. Now that CG was freaking out nice and good, she decided to get her friend Pam Uziel on the horn. Pam is one of Hats For Happiness BreastCancerSuperHeroes. She asked her if she was crazy for being now convinced that she has breast cancer?? Pam gave a resounding NO!! That I was not crazy to be worried about it and freaked out, that probably for quite some time every little thing that hurts or happens CG brain will think it is Cancer.
CG made another trip to SO office, she was freaking now, what if he is wrong?? People are wrong all the time, CancerGirl was wrong just the other day in fact!!! SuperOncologist calmed CG fears, promised her it wasn't cancer, and said he could prove it to her right there. That the purple was in fact PURPLE not BLACK (CG had convinced herself that what was two days ago purpley was now black, and black means Cancer, everyone knows that!!!).
SuperOncologist went and got a needle and poked the sore right in the center of the black and OMG so much icky yucky stuff came out, and after about 5 minutes of is squeezing and pressing and stuff coming out, it wasn't black (or purpley) as much, and the pain was greatly reduced. No, it wasn't Breast Cancer, THANK GOD, for CG it was a huge relief.
For many though, it is not a relief, for many it is a reality. Right now, somewhere in this country someone somewhere is with a Super Oncologist who instead of relieving those fears, are confirming them for woman. CancerSuperHeroes are being made EVERY DAY!!!! CancerGirl is HONORED to be a CSH, but she wishes that no one will ever get to join that clan again. She wishes that there were NO CancerSuperHeroes AT ALL!!!! Until that happens though, CG will continue to fight, standing in front of other CSH when they are too weak to defend themselves, standing next to them in their strong moments, saying "You can do this, you know you can defeat that EvilMelanomaMan, you don't need me to defend you now, you go get em" and standing behind every one of them, there to catch them and hold them when they can't stand anymore, when the fight has been too hard, when they just need to rest, they can rest in the loving arms of CancerGirl, because CancerGirl is strengthened by the SuperPowers of Love, Happiness, and Joy.
Hey everyone. I want you to know that this may seem like a silly ting, "So what, Ron White read your Tweet, big deal, who cares, Ashton has read my Tweets!!" . But wait!!! I love Ashton too, I LOVED him in That 70's Show, and liked him on his show Punk'd. But Ron White has no idea how much he helped CancerGirl defeat the EvilMelanomaMan.
When CancerGirl would go and get reloaded with ACS (AntiCancerSerum AKA Chemo) she would come home and put on one of the DVD's of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, or Ron White's DVD's such as, You Can't Fix Stupid, Tater Salad, or Behavioral Problems. She would put that DVD in the player, and she would watch, and laugh, and laugh. She would laugh every single time Ron would tell his "I got thrown out of a bar....." joke, She still laughs every time she thinks of the line "Just put a paper towel over it, I will clean it up when I get home", because the idea of his floors dotted by "paper towel tee-pees" is hilarious. She would let her mind wander to the concept of a tiny little "poop Indian" tribe forming in the week that Ron was on the road, to have Good Ole Sluggo barely notice his return. It reminds CancerGirl of how unimpressed SuperDog is by CancerGirl most of the time.
CancerGirl went to Aquatica in Orlando today,SD here: Note you once again didnt hear about me getting to go to Aquatica AGAIN!!!! Ok, now that we have been RUDELY INTERRUPTED, even with having gone to the water park today, knowing that someone who had such a huge influence in my own Cancer treatment was himself going through a lot of the same things with his own lovely wife MargoRey, who is a CancerSuperHero herself, not only knew what I have been through, but also has been through the same, has truly touched CancerGirl in an AMAZING WAY
Please make sure to check out Ron's DVD's on Amazon
Thanks for supporting us in any way you feel comfortable Ron.
Hey there peeps. SuperHubby just called and woke up CancerGirl to tell her to get ready to go to Aquatica, We were supposed to be going tomorrow but SH work let him out early today because they wont be letting him go home early tomorrow. Soooo, off to the waterpark for us.
actually it starts today, but since I spent 2 hours writing a blog to have it get erased when I went to post it, it is now 4am, so I am gonna start over
Yesterday
When CancerGirl was in school as a child she hated Gym class. It wasn't the teachers, she liked them well enough, but the problem came in that she was a clutz. Now before you start saying "I am sure she wasn't any more clutzy then any other teenager out there" stop, she was and still is a big clutz. She would run upstairs her feet would go faster then her brain, and she would do a faceplant into the stairs.
Today CancerGirl is happy that she doesn't have to take a gym class, she does have to take some sort of "physical education" but that can also be a class on nutrition.
Today
SuperDog went to the spa tonight. She was not happy about this, but she went grudgingly (and a 90 pound SideKick doing anything grudgingly can be a pain). She requested a private bathing suite since there were other dogs there and she didnt want them to see her go through the indignity of getting bathed. Of course, CancerGirl can't afford to use a groomer that has such a facility, so she got her bath in front of the other dogs that were there. Everyone there loved her and her groomer gave her cookies. The groomer did find one spot that I had thought was a bit of dirt, turned out to be what looked like a spider bite. She will be fine, but she does have a spot right on top of her head that is missing some hair, pretty ironic since I went through chemo and didnt loose one bit of hair (thank god).
Tomorrow
Well, tomorrow is the first day of school. CancerGirl always gets panicky about the first day of classes. I think it is because she reads the syllabus and then decides the teacher is very strict and that she isnt going to like them, then the first day of school she finds out that they are in fact very nice. It is more the anxiety of not knowing what they are going to be like then anything. This will be CancerGirls first semester on campus as a SuperHero, and hopefully everyone wont be too taken back by seeing one. SuperDog is excited, when she saw CG pick up her backpack, SD came runing over and tried to get it put on. She was upset to find that CancerGirl was just putting it in the washer so that it will be nice and clean for tomorrow.
Link of the Day
As you know, CancerGirl has been using Twitter for the past few days to update everyone. She has also been following some people as well.
CancerGirl first saw Bill Engvall when he opened for Reba McEntire at the Garden State Arts Center in New Jersey (if you culdnt tell by the Garden State thing) and at first she was dissapointed that there was a opener, as she had gone with SPP (Super PopPop, CG grandfather) to see ReBa and CG considered having a comedian as a opener was boring (CG was 15 at the time). All that dissapointment was gone 10 minutes into Bill Engvall's set.
Bill Engall specializes in those special moments when the Evil Power of FootInMouth sets in. Those times when you know that what you are about to ask is a stupid question, but you can't help but ask it.
Like when you see your neighbor bringing boxes out of his house and putting them into a big truck. You walk over and ask him if he is moving. You know what the answer is, why else would someone completely empty their house? YOu feel foolish for asking, but you just had to anyway.
One of CancerGirls most favorite bits that BIll Engvall does is when he talks about the DorkFIsh. A very ugly fish who also isnt very smart, as he eats corndogs without even bothering to ask himself how a corndog would have goten to the bottom of the ocean .
You can watch Bill Engvall's DorkFish bit on ww.youtube.com here:
You can also purchase Bill Engvall's StandUp DVD's and CD's at Amazon.com by clicking on the link below.
Remember that every purchase you make through my Blog helps CancerGirl fulfill her mission of bringing the strongest SuperPower out there, the power of Laughter, to the world.
CG and SD are starting school Thursday. She is very excited and nervous at the same time. She still hasn't gotten her books or her supplies as of yet. Tomorrow is the day of major running around.
Yesterday
Whenever the beginning of a school semester begins, CG starts thinking about her previous experiences with school. When CG was in Middle School and High School she was always being told she wasnt living up to her potential. This always really annoyed CG because first of all, if it was my potential, then why do they care if I am living up to it or not, and how do they know what my potential was anyway?? It isnt like they stamp on our heads when we are born "has the potential to ...." . I also always wondered how many of these people who were telling me this were living up to their own potential, many of which I think were not in fact doing so. I think that before they started talking to tohers about thier potential, that perhaps they would have been better served trying to live up to their own potential.
Today
Today CG and SH and SD had a nice relaxing day at home. CG was very physically worn down today. I think possibly she isnt charging her HumorMeter enough lately. It felt like someone had put a lead weight in CG's SuperHero uniform.
CG and Sh watched Hells Kitchen tonight, one of CancerGirls favorite shows. She enkoys watching Chef Gordon Ramsay yell at the people who come into his kitchen on the show. I always find it quite ironic that these people are being given the opprotunity of a lifetime (if you are into the whole cooking thing, CG hates to cook, so it would be torture to her) and to see these people have such attitudes with CHef Ramsay and act like he has no clue.
Tonight SD did something very uncharacteristic of her. CG was sitting on the couch (the lair is outfitted with a dual recliner loveseat) and SD climbed into the other recliner and curled up. CG reminded her that she is not allowed on the furniture and that opened a whole can of worms with SD. She started muttering "of course, you people sit on the furniture all day long, the SuperCats hang out on the furniture all day long, I jump up for 2 minutes ot lay next to you and all of a sudden its a problem". I agreed with SD that it wasnt fair, and I let her stay on the chair, telling her to never let SH see her up there.
Tomorrow
CG and SD have a big day tomorrow full of running around and doing errands. SD needs a new collar for school, she has requested something in a diamond stud, but we have decided to go with something in purple instead.
SD is also going to the Spa tomorrow. She was very excited about this, started talking about the messages and mud packs and about how she was finnaly getting the recognition she deserves. CG informed her that her spa day would in fact consist of a full body rubdown, but that it would be accompanied by a bath. SD started talking about how she felt it was unfair as she would never take me to the spa and tell them to scrub me down and blow me dry. I told her that if she kept herself clean then she would not hav to go to spa.
Chef Gordon Ramsay was born in Scotland where he played football until a injoury ended his hopes of a sports career. He then enrolled in culinary shool and began to apprentice with numerous world class chefs.
He went outon his own and began opening restraunts and now has 5 star restraunts all over the world.
You can purchase his book on Amazon.com using the following link.
Check out his books and be sure to watch the next episode of Hell's Kitchen
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It's A Bird! It's A Plane!! NO!!! It's CancerGirl!!!!
Hello everyone, CancerGirl and SuperHubby set out for Aquatica this morning, and on the way there the tire blew, so we didn't go to Aquatica today, we are looking at friday now as more likely then anything. I hope I am up for it friday, as I start school thursday.
Yesterday
Yesterday CG had the all important mission of ending the evils of EvilBoredom and EvilGloominess that was attacking SuperSister, so CG and SuperDog went to work. We picked SS up in the CancerMobile and drove around and had a nice talk. SD got to have french fries so she was happy, as she finnaly felt that she was being given the recognition that she deserved. Little did she know she only got them because SS doesnt like the crispy ones, and CG is against wasting.
SS has a cast on her arm, and in order to remind her that CG and SD helped her to fight the EvilBoredom and EvilGloominess CG signed SS cast. There is a picture below of SS cast. It was CG way of saying "CG and SD was here" yes it is a little less obvious then coming through the side of a building or leaping a tall building in a single bound, but I am not yet to that level of SuperHero.
TODAY
Well, today didnt go exactly as CG and SH had planned. They took off from the lair in the CancerMobile and got about 20 minutes away from the lair and ran over a nail on the road and the tire went flat. CancerGirl told SH not to panic, (which is the first thing they teach us in SuperHeroSchool) and that since she was a SuperHero she had SuperPowers and would easily be able to fix everything. She went to her State of the Art, High Tech, F.I.N.D. Sytem (stands for Find It Now Dummy) which she had the CancerMobile outfitted with when the Evil power of ForeverLost struck her and SD on a mission, and she was unable to complete her mission. She immediately went to the SuperHeroMart and purchased the F.I.N.D. system and had it installed.
CG punched in "Auto Repair, and hit "Find It" and next thing we knew the CancerMobile was navigating to the repair shop.
After the tire was fixed we realized that by the time we got to Aquatica and parked and got inside that more then half the day would be over, so we rescheduled for Firday.
Tomorrow
CG and SD begin school Thursday. This is a very exciting time for CG every semester, as she gets to go to her second favorite store and get supplies. CG loves school supplies, pens, pads, binders, all the things that go with being in school. Between that and getting to meet a whole new group of students, and new professors, such a wonderful time. Many people have pointed out that going to college and doing chemo (which I begin the next round of on or around Sept 1) is a very large and possibly not good undertaking. They have suggested I "take time off" but CG is a SuperHero, who is capable of doing anything, not to mention the fact that Cancer isnt going to take a day off from trying to iradicate my SuperPowers, so I can't "take time off" from fighting.
My only concern, is that the BiWheelTurboBoostedSuperHeroMovingDevice is not going to be ready yet, it is being built by a group of designers of SuperHero vehicles, so till that comes it will be a little harder to get around campus, but I have survived before, (even before becoming a SH) so I will once again. Link of the Day
Today is Monday, and I have decided to add something called MovieMondays to the blog. Every Monday, in order to help fight the EvilGloomies CG will watch and review a funny movie. I will choose funny movies that many may not have had a chance to see because they either went straight to DVD or they didnt get as much press when they came out.
Death to Smoochy is a movie starring Robin Williams (CancerGirls most favorite in the world comedian).
Robin Willians plays Rainbow Randolph, a children's tv celebrity, he is charged with fraud by the FBI when it is found out that he is accepting bribes from childrens parents to be on his show. He is fired and the network decides to find the most squeaky clean and without blemish character that noone would ever be able to find fault with.
Enter Smoochy
Smoochy is a big purple Rhino played by Sheldon Mopes, he is found singing songs to the patients at a local free clinic, where he sings such songs as "get you off that smack", a song about.... duh... getting off smack. Check out a video of Smoochy singing the smack song below
When Rainbow Randolph was fired he became homeless and he blames Smoochy for the reason why he is now broke and homeless he decides that Smoochy must die. He begins a campaign of underhanded things trying to get smoochy to get off the air.
I highly suggest you purchase this movie if you have not seen it, as it is truly a very funny movie. Everyone loves Robin Williams, and this is one of his much less known films. You can get the movie from amazon for less then ten dollars by clicking the link below.
Tune in tomorrow to see where the Adventures of CancerGirl and SuperDog will ead us next.
Remember that every purchase you make through my Blog helps CancerGirl fulfill her mission of bringing the strongest SuperPower out there, the power of Laughter, to the world.
This pillow makes a great gift and can be purchased through CafePress.com. It is perfect to give to your favorite CancerSuperHero or CancerSuperCaregiver. It could even be given to your SuperOncologist as a gift. This pillow is soo much softer then I ever thought it would be. SuperFriendLynne also told me last night that it has a removable cover that removes easily for washing, so it is great as a pillow to be used because you don't have to worry about not being able to clean it. I myself am going to get myself a SuperFriendPillow!!!
and use it to take my notes. It is great for all different types of applications. Meetings for business people. Taking notes and recording sessions for those int he psychology field. Definitely check out this pen it is well worth it. 
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