A time for everything

I'm finished with treatments - chemo and radiation.  I will start a new year with a focus on getting healthy and some form of normal.  2010 was a crazy year.  I have to accept that it was part of God's plan for me to get cancer.  I'm not sure why. I may never know.  But I know He also saw me through it.  When I think of this past year, I think of this passage from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8.  It's one of my favorites.

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;








A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;








 


A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose;





A time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
















A time to love, and a time to hate;
A time of war, and a time of peace.



My sincere prayer is that 2011 is a wonderful year for every one of you, and that you are generously blessed with health, happiness, love, and peace.  HAPPY NEW YEAR!  Love, Susan

Merry Christmas!

I wish you all a very merry Christmas, filled with family, friends,

 love, laughter, and peace.  Celebrate Jesus' birth!

And CELEBRATE we did!

Last night was girls' night out...to the Melting Pot!  Mmmmmm.  Besides the fact that we ate so much we were about to bust, it was a great time!

I've had 15 radiation treatments and have 10 more to go.  So I'm over the halfway point with those.  And they're not bad - just makes my belly hurt but doesn't make me feel bad anywhere else.  I had my port removed last week, and the onday after Christmas will be my last radiation treatment. Then I'm done with EVERYTHING!  I have to have a follow-up scan every 4 months next year, but that's it.

After eating so much, we had to go the mall and walk it off   :)

(This pic was taken with my cell phone so it's not very good quality - sorry)

Thanks ladies - it was lots of fun!