Happy 1st Birthday to my Blog

Yes, that is right. It is the first birthday of this blog. Can you believe it? One year has passed since I started posting on this sight. And for a lot of you reading this, it has been one year of reading about (or looking at photos) about my life. On the day I received the news that I had cancer, Nancy and I went to Best Buy and bought a camera. I think it was probably an impulse buy. When you get a diagnosis of cancer, it seems as though you will treat yourself to gifts. And what a good gift it has been for me. (As of this moment I have taken 3287 photos with the camera.) I knew I wanted to share my journey with others and a blog seemed to be the way to do that. So, on May 21 I created this blog. I really didn't think about posting photos, but it just seemed to be a good place to share them. Anyway, back to the blog. I have posted 233 times in the last year and YOU have posted 271 comments in that time. All I can say is that I never would have guessed that this blog would become my connection to so many of you. In fact, since I started a site counter last July, my blog has been accessed 14, 896 times. Thanks for being a part of my life and thank you for supporting me in my journey with cancer.

A quick health update - I FEEL GREAT!! In fact, I feel better now than I have in a couple of years. Maybe it has to do with giving up pop or maybe it is just that I am getting my energy back after chemo and surgery and infection. You know this whole ordeal would have been a lot easier if I had not had that damned infection. I have a bone scan and a ct scan scheduled for July 16. If that goes well, I will definitely put this cancer thing behind me. Actually, I feel as though I have put it behind me, but there is just something that is keeping me from throwing away lots of my medicines from the last year even though I am not taking them anymore - I do take femara (the anti-estrogen drug and will take it for five years.) I feel if I do throw them away, that I will jinx myself. So, the medicine is still sitting on my bathroom counter. I think I will leave them there until the scans in July. It is almost as if I am saying that if I leave them on the counter, I will not need them. Do you ever play games in your mind like that?

Happy birthday blog and thanks for everything you have given me.
Mary Kay