Day October 18, 2016 Success On Many Levels and HOLY CATFISH!

This might be the most legendary Annual Girls+ Weekend ever! First, I will say that Monday I had chemo and was joined by my sweet friends, Brooklyn Mesward and Liz Pieniazek AND we had a guest join us for part of the famous event for 2 of the days, Daniel Mesward! These people thoroughly entertained me during my chemo appointment by challenging each other to a Jelly Belly Bamboozled jelly bean eating contest. Poor Daniel unluckily picked the dog food, vomit, dead fish, and mouldy cheese jelly bellies more than the caramel corn and tutti fruity! I would say we collectively entertained the entire chemo salon for 2+ hours with our laughter and 'OH Gross! comments!

Chemo, once again was a cake walk for me, praise the Lord! My blood work was great and my feet are totally back to normal. So everyone is happy!


Today I went fishing with my girls and caught the biggest fish I've ever landed! Check out my 10+ lb catfish! This beast was a riot to actually get from the pond to the house, but the details of that story will be saved in our memories because it was filled with  a couple expletives as the slimy 30.5" creature snapped my fishing line right when I dragged her on the shoreline and she started flopping around and I had literally no idea how to hold it and move it safely without potentially jabbing myself. (Not good for white blood counts!) Brooklyn encouraged me to 'man up' and grab that Bertha and save it so it didn't flop in the water. We had nothing big enough to bring it home in so we got creative! We can honestly say that the past 3 days have been filled with gut wrenching laughter, some tears, many heart to heart conversations, healing friendships, lots of reminiscing of Jordan, prayers, and good food....oh, and some crazy naked moments!

So, cancer really isn't holding me back from living life fully! I often tell people who ask me how I'm feeling,  that if I weren't bald, I would not even know I had cancer! This is an acknowledgement to all you who pray for me, and for a God who is allowing me to have such a great attitude through this trial. Honestly, I can't say enough how thankful I am that I feel this well during chemotherapy! It's pretty much amazing and I'm greatly humbled by my prayer warriors out there who remember me often. I do not take your prayers for granted.

Tonight I will enjoy catfish tacos, courtesy of Bertha, the fish and Susan Muterspaw for allowing us to fish in their pond!