8 months...

Life 8 months out of chemo...

... I think that maybe my hair will start to grow a little faster if I stop cutting it. The top of my hair is finally getting long enough that I think I can start to grow the back out and not have it look too awkward.

... It's really almost been nine months. I'm really slow at getting this picture taken this month. Next week will be my nine month mark and it has gone by pretty fast.

... I realize that I'm also wearing a yellow cardigan in the first picture, but this is a different one. It's my favorite thing in my wardrobe and I've looked for a good year for a decent yellow cardigan (the first one was not as cute as I'd hoped and super itchy...). So oh well if it throws off the whole picture collage, I'm okay with it because I love it.

... I have new glasses that I love. Tru ripped the arm off of my other ones while at the pool over the summer and I got some new ones a few months ago. I love how thick the frames are.

... I really like my job now. I've finally gotten used to it and gotten a lot faster at it and it's going really well. I've also cut down my hours a little to just 3 days a week because I really hate leaving Tru so much. I have a really hard time with it, so less hours it is!

... I'm not really feeling like blogging a lot these days. I think that part of it is that I spent a lot of time blogging and reading blogs when I was going through chemo, and now that I'm not I just don't feel like doing it so much. So sorry if I've sort of disappeared from the internet world here.

... Still thinking about doing a half marathon in March but not sure if I'll be able to pull it off. The farthest I've gone is 3 miles, so 10 more would be quiet a stretch.

... I have more scans coming up in two weeks. I was suppose to have them in December but put them off a month because I didn't want to pay my yearly deductible with my new insurance in the month of December. I'm glad they let me move it till next year. It makes me so nervous though to have these scans. I hope these ones are totally uneventful...

... Once my scans are done I'm going to be doing a detox cleanse. I've never done one before but I've been reading up on it in this awesome book called Clean. It's written by a cardiologist who started doing more integrative medicine. I just feel so different than I did before chemo. I keep getting colds, UTI's, my joints hurt almost all the time, my skin is worse than it was when I was 15 years old. The basic idea behind it is that toxins build up in your body over time and really weight down all of the systems in your body, and the toxicities manifest themselves in things like constant colds, sickness, no energy... etc. I agree with that, but more than that I put poisonous toxins in my body for 6 months to kill cancer, and I think that it's still having affects on my body. So I'm going to do it. It's for 3 weeks, and you drink 2 liquid meals a day (veggie and fruit smoothies) and eat one solid meal a day. I'm nervous, I've never done anything this radical, but I really want to try it to see if it helps me out. I think that I'm going to blog about it on my other blog though, so if you care to follow it, it will be posted over there.

... Most importantly right now, I'm enjoy my time with my boys. They are my best friends and we have so much fun together. I'm so blessed to have my wonderful family.