The past 2 years in a nutshell...

It's been 2 long years since my last post. Almost forgot about it. Where to start?? 

• One of my best friends was murdered by her neighbor's crazy ex baby daddy bc she was trying to help her neighbor get custody of their daughter. The guy then killed himself after executing my friend in front of her kids. Very hard to get over losing such a positive person in my life. LOVE you Shana forever! May 20, 2011.
• Sept of 2011 I found a lump in my armpit. Figured it was from having the flu for 3 weeks (or at least I thought it was the flu bc I was horribly ill) Waited til Nov and went to one hospital and they said it was a swollen lymphnode and gave me antibiotics for it. They didn't help.
• Evicted from our apt in Nov 2011 and went to live with a so called friend! She caused too much drama and tried to kick us out the day before Thanksgiving. None the less I did what I had to do to stay til we could find our own place.
• Dec 1,2011 we moved to our house where we still are today. Christmas was ok. 
• 2012... May came and it was 1 yr of Shana's passing. Crazy drama with all that. 
• Finally had gone to the doc in May and they sent me to a community clinic which ran tests and told me it wasn't cancer but they couldn't figure out why my lymph node had swollen up to the size of a tennis ball. They biopsied it in July and no cancer. (thought I was in the clear) 
• My lymph node wasn't healing so went to Parkland and was admitted the 4-6 of Sept. Had another biopsy and got my results on Sept 8 that it was in fact Breast Cancer! Very upsetting time for me and my family. Had my doc visits and chemo started Oct 20. 
• Invasive Ductal Carcinoma stage 3c triple negative Breast Cancer. (Look it up it's rare)
• Thanksgiving and Christmas were great! We were beyond blessed from perfect strangers! Love was here and God made sure we were taken care of!
• 6 rounds of chemo and I finished on Feb 5. Thought that's all that they were going to do but NOPE. 
• Radical mastectomy of my left breast and 29 lymph nodes. Results were that 6 were positive and 23 negative but since then I've been told none outside the ones already affected, were positive! Seems to me they don't know what they are doing. A little irritating but so glad I made it through it all.