Sunday, January 3rd

Morning all....last day before it's back to the normal world. I've been on vacation since the 18th of Dec...so tomorrow will probably be tough to get up and get to the office, but on the other hand it will be good to get back to a normal schedule! Still snowing here a little...according to the news we have about 7 or 8 inches of the white stuff out there! I've already had enough of this stuff and it's only the beginning of January. We'll everyone else still sleeping. We are suppose to be at Mom's for dinner and birthday cakes for CJ and Zack (CJ will be 5 tomorrow and Zack was 2 on News Years Eve). I'll need to Bernie and Sean up soon so they can shovel and cleanup. I still need to get both CJ and Zack a present so plan last night was to get out of the house by 3pm or so and go shopping before we go to Mom's.
I wanted to share with you all a poem. A man Bernie works with gave it him for me. It's in a beautiful frame and the words are so true.

What Cancer Cannot Do
Cancer is so Limited...

it cannot cripple love
it cannot shatter hope
it cannot corrode faith
it cannot destroy peace
it cannot kill friendship
it cannot suppress memories
it cannot silence courage
it cannot invade the soul
it cannot steal eternal life
it cannot conquer the spirit.

So what I want everyone to do is remember all these things that cancer can not do and do not focus on what it does. I'm not going to...I'm going to keep fighting so I need everyone else to also!

Also, here are the words to the song below Go the Distance by Michael Bolton...beautiful song and the words are so fitting for my journey!

I have often dreamed, of a far off place. Where a hero's welcome, would be waiting for me. Where the crowds will cheer, when they see my face. And a voice keeps saying, this is where I'm meant to be.I'll be there someday, I can go the distance.I will find my way, if I can be strong.I know ev'ry mile, will be worth my while.When I go the distance, I'll be right where I belong.Down an unknown road, to embrace my fate.Though that road may wander, it will lead me to you.And a thousand years, would be worth the wait. It might take a lifetime, but somehow I'll see it through. And I won't look back, I can go the distance. And I'll stay on track, no, I won't accept defeat. It's an uphill slope, but I won't lose hope. Till I go the distance, and my journey is complete. But to look beyond the glory is the hardest part. For a hero's strength is measured by his heart. Like a shooting star, I will go the distance. I will search the world, I will face its' harms. I don't care how far, I can go the distance. Till I find my hero's welcome, waiting in your arms. I will search the world, I will face its harms. Till I find my hero's welcome, waiting in your arms.

Here's my January Schedule:
Back to work Monday the 4th
Chemo on Friday afternoon the 8th both drugs Avastn & Ixempra
Off to Toronto on Monday the 11th, home on Thursday the 14th
Chemo on Friday afternoon the 15th..just Ixempra
back to the office on Monday the 18th (Caitlin heading back to school also)
Chemo on Friday afternoon the 22nd both drugs Avastn & Ixempra
Week of January 25th is my off treatment week (Sean heading back to school...classes begin on the 26th!)
Then I'll start by 6th - 4 week treatment cycle the first week of February and rescanning again the first week in March!

And in between all that, our plan is to put the house on the market by March 1st! So a lot going on over the next 8 weeks or so...I'll update again when I can!