Today I'm thankful for:
Warm, long days to spend with the family
My healthy back, my wife's improving health, and the kids great health
A very cute little baby to love
Jacklin LaLanne fruit juicer
I know it's been a couple of weeks until I have written in the blog, but it always seems that the summer time is a very busy time? Lulu has been taking her Sutent chemotherapy medication for two weeks now, and she's had only minimal side effects (like mouth sores, fatigue, forgetfulness). But as long as the drug is reducing the bone marrow cancer cells, these are a small price to pay? The thyroid medication is working wonders to improve Lulu's hypothyroidism, and the Tamoxifen is going to improve the chances that the cancer does end up somewhere else.
Lulu and I have been drinking juice from our juicer machine for the last month or so, and both of us have given up the high fat foods we once ate. I know that we've both feel better now with our new diet and have each have lost some weight along the way. I don't have cravings for the types of food that I used to love; pizza, steaks, hamburgers, and other high calorie fatty foods. It's amazing how changing your diet can have such a healthy impact both physically and mentally on a person, but I'm here to tell you that it's true. I haven't felt better since I was in my 20's, when I was know to ride my bike to school and play lots of tennis or basketball daily. I've even noticed that Lulu had been making an effort to exercise regularly too. I'm proud of both of us, and just today was thinking about this is another opportunity for us to look at Lulu's breast cancer not solely as a unfortunate circumstance, but one that positively changed our life's. It's really how you look at these things, and what you make out of them. I'm so grateful that the future looks so bright for my wife, and that we are living a healthier, conscientious life style.
We're praying for the drugs to do their jobs and eliminate all the residual cancer cells that inhabit Lulu's body? She's on her way to being cancer free and raising to the distinction of "Cancer Surviver".
