aLive @ Stage 4!

Saturday, March 14 Today marks my 78th cancer treatment.   In a few weeks I will mark my fifth anniversary of my first cancer treatment.   It's still very weird.   Here's what's been rolling around in my mind for the past week or two. What a week it's been!   If you haven't heard yet, I've become the JV Softball coach for the high school that I work at.   I know!  I can't believe it either!   So this past week I've stayed after work for practice,  getting home around 5:30pm.   It makes for a long day,  but it's so much fun!   In addition to that,  I've stared selling hair accessories through Lilla Rose.   Lilla Rose is a direct sales company,  but there's no need for party hosting.   If you're interested,  you can order directly from my website and have it shipped directly to your house.  Here's the link to my website:    Lill...

When you're young, you think you're going to live forever.  "You have your whole life ahead of you!"  "You have all the time in the world!"  "I've got plenty of time for that!"  There comes a time, though, that these statements cease being true.  For me, that was almost five years ago; the day I was told that I have metastatic breast cancer.  I walked out of the doctor's office in shock. When I was diagnosed, I thought that death was imminent.  According to   The American Cancer Society , a person with metastatic breast cancer has a 27% chance of surviving five years.  According to  Metavivor , the median life span of a metastatic breast cancer patient is about three years.  So you see why I freaked out a little.  I thought my life was literally over.  In my mind, I visited the local funeral home to pick out my casket.  My children were 13 and 17 years old.  I wanted to live to see them graduate from h...