Fun with Miss Ashley

Eoin has so much fun with Miss Ashley - we have been truly blessed to welcome her into our family for the next few months.

Eoin loves spending time with Miss Ashley and everyday they go on a little adventure together. Enjoy some of the great phone video and photos Miss Ashley takes and sends to me everyday to keep smiling and cheerful. Thank you Miss Ashley.

Thoughts on the start of 2011

A feather I saw on one of the first walks I've had since the beginning of December.

The start of 2011 has so far been rough. I have had to face surgical menopause at the age of 33 and a long recovery from a complete hysterectomy. Sometimes I find myself asking why - why does God see fit on asking so much of me. Well he continues to ask much of me and my family.

This week I was diagnosed with Stage 3 thyroid cancer (there is a possibility that it may be lymphoma but right now everything is pointing towards thyroid cancer). I have a large 7cm tumor and it has spread to some lymph nodes in my neck. The week has been full of CT's, blood tests and needle biopsies. This week I will have a PET scan to make sure the cancer isn't anywhere else then on 11 Feb I will head in for the six hour surgery to get it all out of my neck. A few weeks after that I will have a course of radioactive iodine then hopefully I will be healthy.

I have been joking that I will have lost my favorite excuse to blame things on - the hormones - no ovaries and no thyroid  - I am going to have to be creative with excuses from now on ;-)

Andy has been my rock through all this. He has been by my side the whole way and I couldn't ask for a stronger more understanding husband. Eoin is still a little unsettled by Mommy being ill but he is trying his best. We are truly blessed with Miss Ashley who is taking such great care of Eoin.

Please keep me, my family and our doctors in your prayers and thoughts over the coming weeks as we all go through this journey together. I hope to keep blogging throughout the next few weeks so keep visiting for updates and to see the fun things we all get up to.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Blastoff

King of the Castle

 

Eoin continues to have so much fun with Ashley. We have been blessed to have great weather and so Eoin has been outdoors playing with Ashley and his friends. It is so great to see him return to his normal happy self; full of laughter, good manners and love.

Colorful blog redesign

Thank you Chelsea so much for such a great re-design on our blog! We are loving the awesome colors on our blog and the birds are so cute. If any of you bloggers or etsy site users out there want to treat yourself to a new look check out Chelsea's work. We love it so much we have used her twice to design our blog.

Roller skating

Eoin has been asking for roller skates for ages and we finally caved in today. Ashley was great and spent time trying to teach him how to skate. Eoin had amazing balance while on the grass but he found it much tougher on the sidewalk but knowing Eoin he will be zooming up and down the street on the skates in now time at all.

So lucky......

We are so thankful that we have found a wonderful person to help us look after Eoin for the next six weeks while I recover from surgery. Ashley has been amazing with Eoin! She takes Eoin somewhere fun nearly everyday. Today was swimming, yesterday was trampolining and tomorrow ice skating. Eoin runs to the door every morning and welcomes Miss Ashley. We are so thankful that we have her and we are all going to miss her when March comes!

A little update

 

Thanks again to everyone for their kind wishes and get well messages. I continue to improve but have to remind myself not to push myself too hard. Most days are spent knitting, crafting, reading and catching up on TV shows I missed.

While I know so many of you (and me a couple of months back) would love this it does get hard to stay in bed! I would love to go for a hike or play tag with Eoin. Eoin has been enjoying spending time with Daddy and his Uncle Peter. We had one melt down where Eoin was able to express that he was mad with me for going away. When he gets mad with me now he stills tells me to 'go back to hospital' but things have improved dramatically and he will now let me hug and kiss him and he will snuggle up with me for a movie or story book time.

Thank You

I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to you all for all the wonderful prayers, good thoughts and get well wishes that you have sent me the last few weeks. It has been a tough time with two emergency surgeries in one month ending in a total hysterectomy but we are hopeful that this is the end to it all. We are all looking forward to 2011 being healthy and full of energy. The blog might be a little quiet for a while as I'm not going to be up for running round after a three year old for a few weeks but please do check back soon just to see how we are all doing.

Giggles all the way

 

Christmas Fun