Many of you have asked for recent pictures.  My new profile picture is of me and my very dear friend Lori K.   I’m the platinum haired gal.

The other picture is of my second older daughter Nikki with our three younger daughters.  The younger daughters have gotten much bigger since I’ve last posted  pictures of them.  AND, these aren’t the most current.  They were taken in October of 2012.  

                                              Adrienne, Annamarie & Rissy (Back Row)

                                                    Nikki, and granddaughter Jaiden (Front Row)

I’m doing well.  Pneumonia has stayed gone and all lab reports are looking good regarding the cancer.  CT Scan shows NO tumors in the lungs and all in the liver ones are reducing to more than 50%.  The doctors have said the response to the chemo has been “highly unusual”  and more than they expected.   Of course, I have to tell them WHY the response has been so favorable is because our God shows favor!

I went to the eye clinic who saw me last year when there was a tumor in my right eye’s retina.  They took pictures and, again, an ultra sound, and they found no evidence of the tumor.  The “Before” picture shows a tumor almost consuming the entire right eye ball.  Last week’s picture and ultra sound showed no evidence of any healing.  Eye is completely as if nothing ever happened to it.  ALSO, my eye sight remains better than I had before, so my eye glasses are over correcting my right eye!

An intern did the questions and the check up before the specialist came in the room.  The intern was very moved by my story and asked if he could share it with his wife. I told him to feel free to take my name and phone number and give it to anyone needing encouragement.  He said he admired my attitude about all that’s been done to me and my faith was incredible and he thought the successful outcome was because of God’s intervention.  The retina specialist came in and said it was “the darndest thing” he’d ever seen in his whole life.

Dancing and smiling and singing ~ I love you Lord!  I love you!

In Christ,

CHERYLYN

I thought it was best to write.  A friend on Facebook thought I had died because it’s been so long ago that I last posted anything!  I was VERY embarrassed!!!

I was also waiting to have a picture of myself to post, but I have none. 

Last week, a friend of mine from Ohio (Lori K.) made a surprise visit to see me and I enjoyed every minute.  I squeezed that statement in here because there is a great picture of us on my Facebook time line.

I have had this computer revamped and I’m getting used to it.  Just now, when I started this post, I was informed that I had to get an updated Xanga program.  I’m embarrassed once more!!

I even got a new phone this week – I have no clue how to work it, but that will come with time, too, I suppose.

Basically, all things are good right now.  I was back in the hospital right after my birthday (April 12) and had pneumonia again, but this time it was the other lung.  Jesse’s mother died while I was in the hospital and I was little (if any) help.  Our daughter who lives in Colorado came for the service and that motivated me to ask the doctor to let me go a little early.  I went home on Sunday, a week ago.  I was able to spend time with our daughter and her family before they left Monday morning.

I haven’t been on chemo since my pneumonia diagnosis.  But, I believe if my lab work looks okay tomorrow, they will start it up again every Wednesday.  My liver shows tumors that have been significantly reduced and the tumors in my lungs (which were like clusters of grapes “too numerous to count”) are all gone.  I had a brain MRI and a CAT scan while I was in the hospital and it was confirmed that lungs were clear and liver tumors are changing size, for the better. 

I’m changing out winter/summer clothes this week.  I got so much done yesterday AND I made time for resting.  Taking a break, for me, means I lay down and play a hand held game on my Nintendo OR I sit at my desk and write letters.  If Jesse would haul the boxes back out to the garage, the house wouldn’t look so cluttered.  I told my sister-in-law it looks like I hijacked a ship from China and stole all of the clothes, placing them on my own ship!  There’s no rhyme or reason to the boxes, but most of them are finished.  The den (where we all like to hang out) is the worst room.  It has one box left that I need to check out and then we have a huge pile of give-away clothes that are about to topple over.  My sister in law is coming today to see what she can use, then I’ll give the rest of it to church.

That’s about all the news from here.  I’m definitely NOT up and running like I normally do, and I’m having a really hard time getting dinner together each night.  Maybe because that’s later in the day when I’m more run down from whatever I did *during* the day.

I’ll try to get a picture soon.  And, post some of the girls.  They’ve grown up so much this past year.

In Christ,

CHERYLYN

P.S.  If you have my Facebook address, you can see a picture of Lori and me, taken last week.  If you don’t have the address, message me and I’ll give it to you.