More hook-in pictures

These are in no specific order and unfortunately with no names!

 

More tomorrow!

Peace,

Sheri

Springfield Hook-in

Yesterday was the 2nd annual hook-in at the Lake Springfield Boat House.  What a great day!!!  Great weather, great food, and great friends.  I was so glad I was able to go this year.  With the surgery I wasn’t sure I’d be able to.  But I did.  I stayed all day AND I kept my hair on all day!!!

Carolyn Snyder of Cricket Street Wool was selling some beautiful applique patterns and beautiful hand dyed wool. (www.cricketstreetwool.com)

I bought this snowman runner pattern.  Like I need another thing to do…

 Tammy and me hard at work!

Tammy has more pictures over on her blog~  www.skiptomyewe.blogspot.com.

Here are a few pictures of rugs and their hookers.  I’m sorry I can’t remember everyone’s name.  

Dulcy just starting a tea cozy from Karen Kahle. I’m sure she’ll be posting some pics on her blog too. www.dulcysdoorstep.blogspot.com

 

I’ll post more pictures this week.

It’s going to be a busy one.  I am going to start radiation the first week of May and I have two Dr. appointments this week to get ready for that.  (Looks like it’s going to be a long summer too.)

Hopefully when the radiation is over I can get back to my “normal life”!  Those who know me well wouldn’t call me normal!!

Peace to all,

Sheri

 

Recuperating from surgery

Tomorrow will be two weeks.  They did a modified radical mastectomy on my right breast and also took all the lymph nodes from under that arm.  We went to the surgeon’s office on Thurs. the 1st of April for the pathology reports.

           ALL CLEAR!!! 

           No Cancer!!!

He said the percentage of patients that the chemo zaps ALL of the cancer are only 10-15%!!!

He still wants me to have the radiation though, and I have an appointment with a radiation oncologist on the 16th of this month.  I REALLY don’t want to do it, but hey, I’m not going to tempt fate at this point!  It will be every day for six weeks.  And I’ve heard that the fatigue from the radiation is worse than with the chemo!  Hopefully I’ll be back in the swing of things by the fourth of July!! 

But I’m feeling GREAT!!!  I was in the garden scattering some flower seeds just days after the surgery~the next Thursday!!!

  Also that day we had a fence installed in the back yard for Jimmie Dean.  He has been running out the back door alot and we live on a busy street.  So we had a fence put in from the back of the house and out just thirty feet.  Our yard is about 300 feet deep total, so fencing the whole thing is out of the question.  $$$$  It’s a small area, but he acts like he’s free as a bird!!! He’s never been out without a leash and he didn’t quite know what to do at first.  

One more exciting thing happened this week… I have some fuzz on my head!!!  It’s totally white and barely visible, but it’s the beginnings of HAIR!!!  I stood in the sunlight this afternoon with a mirror and admired the tiny fuzz!!  LOL.  I told Mickey if I don’t quit rubbing it and feeling it I’m going to rub it off!!!  I’ll never cuss doing my hair again.  Hopefully it will be a little thicker than before.  I had baby hair before.

Hope everyone had a marvelous Easter.  I finally got to see my family (nieces and nephews and their kids).  We surprised them at my sister’s dinner.  I haven’t seen any of the kids since last fall~before Halloween!  Doctors told me to stay away from the little ones because of germs.  They had grown!  I burst into tears when I saw them. So needless to say, I had a great day!

The hook-in in Springfield is next Saturday and I’m going to be able to go.  Can’t wait!!  I’ll take lots of pictures.  Finally I can start getting out again and have something to blog about!

Great to be back.  Missed you all.

Sheri

Your prayers worked!!!

I had the post-chemo mammogram Wednesday and they said It’s CLEAR!!!  No tumors, no cancer showing up!!!  The chemo did it’s job!!!  The doctor had me come over and view the before and after films.  He was so excited to tell me the news.  And the nurse hugged me and said this “very rarely happens” that the chemo completely takes it away!!!

Mickey told me Wednesday morning that he thought they would say that the cancer was gone.  I told him not to even get his hopes up like that.  That I knew it had shrunk it, but it couldn’t be Gone… I felt like he was setting himself up for a huge letdown.  When I got out to the car and called him to tell him the news he screamed YES!!!!!  then, I Told You So!!! God, I love him.  Couldn’t have done this without my Mickey.

We still meet with the surgeon and my oncologist next Thursday the 18th.  I think they will still do the surgery, but won’t know for sure until after that appointment.

Remember the picture above?  That’s the owl my great-niece made for me at Build a Bear Workshops.  She went with me to chemo and she’s wearing a wig too!

Thank you again for all the prayers and well wishes.  I could feel every bit of good energy you were sending me!  You’ll never know how it made me feel to know that all of you were praying for me and wishing good things for me.  It almost overwhelms me to think about it.  Don’t stop yet, though!!!  LOL

Have a great weekend.  I know we are going to!!!

Peace,

Sheri

 

Painting the house

It’s very hard to keep up a blog when all you do is lay on the couch!  I did come up with a great idea for spring though.  Paint the exterior of our house!  It’s only been about five years since we painted, but the brick red we chose to paint has faded into a yucky kind of terra cotta.  And from the front of the house you can see the north side which hasn’t faded at all.  It really looks awful…So I figured we better change the color!!!  Mickey Loved the idea…..NOT.  Like I said, that’s what happens when you just stare at the walls all day.

I told Mick I would like Pink or Yellow!!!  He said he WON’T live in a pink house!!!  So yellow it is.  Just like The Daisy Cottage. You may click on the cottage words above to go to her blog (for some reason it won’t underline the link!)

Kim’s is a stucco bungalow built in 1922.  Ours was built in 1929 and sadly, doesn’t have the covered front porch.  But I think it will look great. 

Here are a few other yellow and pink houses I found on the net.  Some I like, some not.   

If you haven’t already, check out the blogs on the right for the Lenexa, KS rug show pictures this past Saturday.  I’m so sad I had to miss it this year.  But I’m killing cancer this year.  Next year for sure!!!  I wanted to meet some of you in person.

Gotta go watch CSI!

Peace,

Sheri