Oh, what joy!! I am rejoicing in the Lord today for His answer to specific prayer requests. I received a call this morning from my Ear, Nose and Throat office this morning with a definite surgery date of August 5th!! I will be glad to have the surgery over with sooner than later and to experience this pregnancy with out this thyroid cancer. My prayer is to have a "normal' third trimester. The call today also gives my Mom time to get a ticket to get here in time for my surgery to be with my little blessings and to be there for me when I get home.
My sweetheart and my blessings left to go fishing in Valdez for pink salmon, just for fun. I will miss them tonight but they will be home tomorrow evening. I have a very busy day planned: I am at a friend's house helping her mistreat her windows and before we started we had a wonderful lunch from our favorite local Chinese restaurant, Pagoda. We are also enjoying some fellowship of my wonderful Pastor's wife and another one of the wonderful ladies from my church.
Tonight I have plans to go have Thai food with some of my friend's. This will be my first Thai food, so I am looking forward to trying that and visiting with more friends. This is a rare thing for me and I know that this not happen again for a few years after my new little blessing arrives in December.
Oh, I have my 20 week ultrasound on Monday but we will not be finding out whether we will be having a boy or girl. We will wait and have that one last surprise!
Monday, July 21, 2008 - Two posts in two days, please don't faint!
Was my day productive?Yes. Can you tell? NO!!!
I did a few little things, like
laundry.
Clearing off items that fell off of my night stand during my first trimester.
Clearing off items hidden behind the treadmill during my first trimester.
Making NO Bake Cookies and
Cream Cheese Banana Bread. (It sure sounds and smells good, can't wait for it to come out of the oven)
Dusting some shelves and dressers in my bedroom.
Vacuuming behind the treadmill and nightstand
So, I am slowly moving toward getting this home back in order. The good news: I have a cleaning crew coming Thursday evening. I am so thrilled. I think it will be fantastic, actually like a party!!! That said, I am spending my week doing what I can do to make my time with help easier for me and them. I do need to work more in our bedroom because I am to do that room myself. I will make sure my bathrooms are cleaned well before sending someone in to clean the out of my reach light fixtures and high shelves. I am also planning on washing all the curtains to be put back up before they leave on Thursday.(only downside is the weather is not cooperating and we are cool, cloudy and drizzly at times, just yucky and I have been cold all day)
I have been attempting to update around the old blog lately, but the posts have been filled with updates to my health...how boring!!
Well, I finally uploaded pictures so here is our summer so far......
In June we bought plants, veggies and seed potatoes..
The garden was roto tilled
Flowers were planted
Vegetables were planted
Baby birds were hatched
Smoke? Just checking (Yes Dad, they are on the roof) Oh, yeah, this is also where my husband puts his moose and caribou antlers.
An 8th birthday was celebrated
A small town 4th of July parade was attended
The 4th was a hot day so every one but me took a cool dip in the pond
We purchased this new to us van
A 10th birthday was celebrated
And a basketball goal was assembled
That pretty much catches you up on what has occured around here since I began my awakening from my first trimester. No news on an earlier surgery date yet, I am accepting that no news is good news.
This will definitely be a pregnancy that I will not soon forget, I guess it is like "they" (just who are they?) say, "going out with a bang". I have felt well throughout all the testing and then the diagnosis and the wait to determine whether or not to have surgery now or wait. Now the date has been set and I feel as though I am regressing back to the way I felt about 4 weeks ago. But I must not dwell here long. There are so many things to do. Things to get in order, things to clean, things to keep, give away or toss. I must muddle through and find some order in this chaos.
It honestly does not seem to be effecting my children adversely at all. They have just rolled through this whole thing so well. Blessing #1 turns 10 tomorrrow and he asked for a basketball goal. One came home with Dad last night and was put together and now I hear a ball dribbling and going through the hoop and lots of back and forth between my two players. If you know us personally, can you guess which two are playing?
I will be having surgery at the end of August to remove the side of my thyroid that has cancer. Wow, I am glad but now I dive headlong into an unknown area. Not quite where I like to leap but I know that it will all be okay. This will be my first surgery.
I apologize for my delay in sharing my news here. It has just taken me a couple of days to digest what has been put on my plate. I was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer on Wednesday. From what my family has been reading on this cancer, it is the best one to have as it is not aggressive and acts rather benign. Where do we go from here? Not quite sure today. I have my regular monthly OB appointment on Monday as well as an appointment with the Ear, Nose and Throat doctor to discuss where we go from here. I do know that the cancer has to be removed but there shouldn't be any other treatment necessary. Until I know more.....
I had a post ready and then my IP failed to connect and I lost it. My testing if over and I should get results in a couple of days. I will keep you posted.
Ambleside books we are currently reading: ~Aesop's Fables ~Shakespeare (Lamb Version)just finished Winter's Tale unsure of next choice ~Burgess Bird Book ~Herriot's Animal Stories ~Just So Stories by Kipling ~Parables of Nature by M. Gatty ~Blue Fairy Book
This term's artist-Jan Van Eyck
This term's composer-Camille Saint-Saens and Hector Berlioz
This term's poetry-Eugene Field
Bible - Character Sketches
Math - Math U See Primer, Alpha and Beta
Science - Apologia (Zoology 1 Flying Creature of the Fifth Day)
Handwriting - Start Write (software)
History - Mystery of History Volume 1
Art - Art Adventures at Home 1
English - Simply Grammar
Reading - Explode the Code and various and sundry books they read
