In the previous post, I mentioned the benefit BBQ that the school had for me and my family, well, it was great! We ran out of to-go boxes, beans, and cole slaw, but we managed to fix it anyway. The boxes covered the delivered orders, so that wasn't really a big deal. And one of the ladies in my class went to the grocery store nearby and bought premade slaw. There were canned baked beans here in case we needed them, so we just heated those up. There ended up being various donations, one was from an office worker at one of the plants, one was from a supplier to another plant that heard what was going on and wanted to give, another was from a faculty member from the Morristown branch of our school, then there was a donation from a friend of my instructor. If it were me reading this, I would be curious to know how much was raised, so I guess I'll tell ya. After expenses were deducted (but a lot of it was donated) there was close to $1,200! Is that not just absolutely amazing?!?! The whole class came together to help out and make it all happen, so it was also a great fellowship! And then, the icing on the cake was when Jinger, from Electric 94.9, came by with t shirts and hats, and done a short radio plug. We got some pics, I just don't have them off my camera yet. It was great meeting her! I'll post when I get them loaded! Anyway, the money will be going toward the house and getting the addition finished. I'm pretty sure that it will be more than enough to get the basement portion finished. This addition has been in the works now for close to 4 yrs! The foundation has been poured and about half the block layed. But when you are doing it yourself and just buying materials as you can afford them, its a slow go. But I'm hoping this is just what we needed to make a big progress in it. Then when we get the basement completed, we have the lumber we need, thanks to my dad! If you know how to lay block, come on over! I may not be able to pay you, but I can feed you, lol!
School is going good. I'm ready to start the medical stuff. Ordered my last set of books and waiting on them to come it. They will be med. terminology, med. transcription, and med. office procedures. I think I will really like all of them. And if all goes well, I may get to graduate in August, but I'm really gonna have to bust my tail to get it done. We get a 2 wk break coming up, starting the 22nd, and we will be headed to beach on the 27th! I'm really excited about it too. My best friend, Samantha, and her family will be going too. Her kids and mine are all close in age and get along really good. We've had this trip planned since Jan. It was our Christmas present from my in-laws.
Today is my baby's birthday! He turns 5! Happy Birthday Grayson!!

Hi everybody! Obviously you have been wondering how I am, that's why you're here! I have been just fine. Well, there has been some things happen that I could have done without, but nothing I couldn't handle, after all, I do have an awesome God holding my hand every step of the way! About 2wks ago, I got a really bad rash on my head, and it looked horrible. I took pics of it since it happened over the wknd and I wouldn't be back at the dr til the end of the week. They told me it was faliculitus, or in simple terms, infected hair follicles. Ok, fine, but then it started breaking out down my face, mostly my chin and nose. I looked worse than a teenager hitting puberty wide open! Thankfully it went away in a few days, but then had treatment last week and guess what, it happened again. Not on my head this time, but the acne on my face came back, maybe a little worse, and it's on my neck pretty bad. And it's not just common acne, it's the kind that wants to stay under the skin and get really sore, so imagine that on your nose and remember that I am having to blow my nose a whole lot because of the sinus drainage caused from the chemo. Oncologist says he has never seen this happen before and so I had to remind him that they had never had anyone run a fever taking the Zometa, either, so I guess I'm just a trouble-patient, lol! That's ok, I know I'm still loved! So, anyway, he lowers my dose of steroids, hoping this might help. That was last Thursday, one week ago today, and so it must not have helped. That was a good day tho, my dad took me treatment and I really enjoyed it. We played with his gps, which he had never used before, lol, and it got us there, almost. Other than the rash/acne everything has been ok. This past week I did notice that my energy level is dropping, I get zapped really quick. This will take some getting use to, all over again, cause when you are use to being able to go go go, then all of the sudden you can't, you tend to forget easily. Another thing that hadn't missed at all has reared it's head! Losing my train-of-thought! I hated this so bad the first time around, and was hoping that since I'm so far in on treatments, that maybe it wouldn't happen this time. WRONG! You don't know how frustrating it is to try to carry on a conversation and not be able to finish a sentence without having to pause because you forgot what you were saying, and it's almost embarrassing. So if I am blessed enough to be having a conversation with you, please be patient with me, it may take me a few minutes to get my point across. On to a more positive note, here is some good news. I have mentioned several times how thankful I am for my school, all of it, the staff and the ladies in my class, well they have went above and beyond, once again! The welding instructor, who Doug and his brother both had, has put together a benefit BBQ for us. Of course, several ladies from my class are helping him do it. If you're not familiar with where I go to school, it's located in an industrial park where there are several industrial plants. So they have went around to these plants and have taken up orders, and we have just over 200 orders to fill tomorrow!!! And that's not counting the number of orders from the students at school! Lots of volunteers, including myself, are making baked beans, cookies, and/or cole slaw. The welding teacher is at the school, even as I type, smoking the meat, then we will go in the morning to help him pull and shred it, assemble the plates, and deliver them to the plants. It's gonna be a lot of hard work, but so much fun at the same time! And as a little added bonus, my favorite radio station may stop by! Electric 94.9 advertises that if you let them know about a summer event that you will be having, they just might stop by. So, I thought it couldn't hurt anything to email them telling them about the BBQ, not really expecting a response, mainly because I just emailed them yesterday morning and figured it was too short a notice, but I got a response soon after saying that they would love to come, bearing there were no problems before hand! I'm really excited about the WHOLE day! Thank you Lord for surrounding me with people with such big hearts!!!