Trust In You

   





I love this song. It is a great reminder.

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

 

 

 

 

 

Spread the word! September is childhood cancer awareness month! Let's help raise awareness and raise money for research of childhood cancers!

 

 

Dyrk Strong.

What a great story of how community pulls together to bring smiles to a child with cancer. Firefighters are amazing in their own right but what all these stations have done for this one boy is pretty cool! AND they get to play with fire and it is ok! Win win. lol

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/19/dyrk-burcie-cancer_n_1608237.html?1340107954&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl10%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D171086#s=more233553

Osteosarcoma

I was recently doing a google search for Osteosarcoma. I found this site and a great article with some really good information on everything Osteosarcoma.
just thought I would pass it along!
http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/cid/documents/webcontent/003129-pdf.pdf

Walk a mile in these shoes..I bet you trip.

I have been so touched by the recent outpouring of emails from fellow Osteosarcoma survivors, caregivers or those that are still in treatment. When I started this blog a few years ago it really was just my way of dealing with survivorship. I never realized the impact it might have on others in various stages of their own journey.

When I was 15 and newly in treatment I spent hours, and when I say hours I mean HOURS, on the internet searching for anything and everything about Osteosarcoma. I wanted to chat with people who have had it, were over it, and beyond! I had the hardest time connecting and searching for information about my recent new found “normal”. I needed to know that I was going to be ok, somehow. The internet was still slow and people were still getting use to the idea of putting your personal life out there.  Amazing how a decade changes things. So much information is now available. CSN was just getting started and hardly anyone used it back then. Now so many people are connected through such a wonderful site!

I am coming up on 13 years cancer free, May 10^th to be exact.  I love that day. I don’t really do much different anymore but I know inside I just feel different.  It marks milestones that no one else can comprehend unless you have walked a mile in my shoes. Let me tell you, to walk a mile in these shoes TAKES FOREVER and I may or may not trip a few times in the process! J Ok, Ok. I WILL most definitely trip a time or two. But I do walk, and I do finish.  That by itself is an accomplishment and something worth celebrating! My friends and family have two full years to get the planning done on my BIG 15 year party…(*cough* just a hint..)

All that to say, those of you who have stumbled upon my blog by accident or on purpose, THANK YOU.  If you have walked a mile in my shoes, Osteosarcoma is no easy road. I have been down it and back. I have had flats, detours, rough rides and long breaks. I AM HERE. I AM HEALTHY. I HAVE SURVIVED.  Take heart. You will have one heck of a fight but life is too sweet not to give it a try! My husband and two boys seem pretty glad I did! J

If you are searching for more survivors that have walked a mile in your shoes check out http://csn.cancer.org/. It was such a  help to me over the years! One amazing survivor of Osteosarcoma has SEVERAL shoes to fill but is still going strong, Jothy Rosenberg! Check his website out Who says I can't? He has such an inspiring book out that I think everyone should read, cancer or not! Damian Buchman is another fellow survivor that I have just recently met and he is doing wonderful things for his community despite his limb salvage surgery. Check out what he is up to at the Ability Center.