To post or not to post?

Hello again!  So, I know my entire idea in creating this blog in the first place was to document my journey through the madening, terrifying world that cancer can be.  I also realize that recently, I have been posting less and less frequently.  I do want to apologize for this but I think I now understand why this is happening.  As I get further and further out from diagnosis, I'm obviously less stressed about the diagnosis.  Also, I've been VERY blessed to have had 3 MRIs showing slight improvement in the last 9 months.  I'm now re-learning how to live each day as a cancer survivor.  I don't use that term lightly.  Survivor doesn't mean that the fight is over and I have "won".  It merely means that I continue to live and to fight.  With each week and each month, as I go forward, I am actually finding where there are days at a time where I don't consciously even think about cancer anymore.  I have, to the extent possible, "taken back" the power for my own life.   In a way to wouldn't make sense to most that haven't seen cancer up close, cancer is the thing that actually has empowered me to live my life and for that, I am grateful.

Alive n' Kickin! and getting ready for the relay...

It's been a good long while since I've posted here but I'm very very happy to report that my MRI last november showed slight improvement and that for the moment I continue with no therapies and just 3-monthly MRIs. I'm on Dilantin still and also have meds for anxiety as needed.

Now, let me fill you in on something I've been really trying to make happen this year. I'd REALLY like to have an amazing Relay for Life team this year and as a teacher, I have the opportunity to have a large team. That said, however, I want to raise as much money as possible to beat this horrible illness and think you might be able to help me. If you would visit this Relay for Life website and click either on donate to participant (Michael Norman--I'm our captain) or donate to Team (O'Neal Falcons)  we'd be thrilled!

Thanks for all of your support along the way and now I want you to help me pay it forward!