What a crazy week...

Well, both kids survived the first week of school...it was a week full of open houses, practices for cheerleading and football, kindergarten screening and lots of fees....I swear I have written 20 checks to the school system this week! Tyler seemed to get back into his school routine just fine and Jillian did well moving to the "big school"...she was reluctant to go but didn't cry or anything which was a relief.

Friday was a fun but crazy day for me. First thing in the morning I ran down to Covington, KY to attend a lighting show and class...it was nice to see some people that I worked with in the past. Once I finished up there I ran up to Mason to do a short commercial for the Komen Race for the Cure. Cammie Dierking (local news anchor) is the honorary chair for the event so she was there. We had maybe 30-35 breast cancer survivors stand around her while she talked about the upcoming walk. This was really my first big event with a bunch of survivors but things were moving so fast I didn't really have much time to think about it. It was about 90 degrees so we were all sweating with our pink T's and hats on. I was surprised to see that the majority of women were my age or younger...for some reason I was thinking that most would be older women. I was there with my friend Pat who I met a couple months ago and she intro'd me to a woman that she had met at the plastic surgeon's office. This woman was talking about her recent exchange surgery and how much she was loving her new, soft foobs...before you know it I was feeling them...yep, right out there in front of the Mason Muni Center I was feeling some other woman's soft new foobs...of course, in that group of women it seemed like the most natural thing in the world but I would think that someone passing by might have found that a little odd. Oh yeah, I forgot to say how nice they felt....compared to these rock hard things I have sticking out of me right now hers were wonderful...makes me look forward to my exchange in November!!

I am still having some issues with my blood pressure...for some reason I wanted to convince myself that it was just medication related or something like that but I am beginning to think that is not the case. My one year "cancerversary" is quickly approaching (Sept. 14th) and I am wondering if that is part of my problem..I have read that many people have a lot of anxiety about approaching that 1 year mark but I didn't think it would bother me. I guess the fear of recurrence or the fear of moving farther away from the treatments can build up and eat away at your mind...the last time I had a Herceptin treatment I remember looking around the room at the other patients that were receiving chemo...I almost felt like I was going to have a panic attack right there...it was like for the first time in 11 months it really hit me that I had cancer and I was in this room...I just wanted to pull the tube out of my port and run out of there....I remember just closing my eyes and telling myself to get a grip...it just seemed so weird to have this type of reaction after being in this exact same environment so many times before...

Last night was the Annual Strawberry Hill Adult Pool Party...Penny did a great job planning this event...Reese cooked crab legs for everyone and this year we had a DJ and he also did Karaoke....things got pretty amusing as the night went by..we saw some awesome duets by The Jenkins and the Galbergs...eventually it was the men that kind of took over...seems like we heard a lot of Johnny Cash and Lynyrd Skynyrd...what a combo!! Some of us met back up at the clubhouse tonight...Reese fixed more crablegs for everyone...I am not really of fan of crablegs but Tyler got to come up and he ate a ton!! I love our Sunday nights up at the pool...hard to believe that next weekend will be our last weekend to go up there. At least we have Bunco and Dinner Club to look forward to over the winter months..

Jillian had her first performance today for cheerleading. Her group did the 1/2 time show during one of the King's youth football games. They did a cheer and a dance...it was at 2:00 and it was so hot but they all did a great job...she loves cheering!!

Enough rambling for now...have a good week...