I thought I was immune to cancer. I thought that since I had heart failure that there was no way God would ever allow me to get cancer. Heart failure felt like enough. Trying to live life with heart failure, amidst all the things I wanted to do in life, felt like more than enough….
(Thank you to our sweet friends who let us borrow their vehicle! It was so comfy I fell asleep on the way home :)) I’m sure anytime you come home from vacation, it always feels good to be home. You miss sleeping in your own bed and to some extent, miss the routine of life….
It’s hard to believe that this day is actually here. COMING HOME day. Three weeks ago, when I was admitted to monitor my heart before my ablation on September 15, little did I know that when I took my last step out of our house that day, it’d be the last for the next 3…
There is a STRONG possibility that I will be able to ****GO HOME TOMORROW****!!!! We are just as shocked by this news, though I saw a small light at the end of the tunnel yesterday when the word “home” was brought up. Yesterday, my counts (hemoglobin, white blood cells, and platelets) were showing some increase…
It’s been a hard past 24 hours. I ended up having pretty severe back spasms, to the point where I was in tears and repeated over and over that I just couldn’t do this anymore. I was ready to throw in the towel. Of course the nurses were there to encourage me to keep going…
The past 2 days have been hard. The extreme fatigue, the headaches, along with the mental toll that fighting leukemia can take on a person, is one that I am still learning to accept and comprehend. Being thrown into a cancer that I knew nothing about (I didn’t even know leukemia was a blood cancer),…
