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An Update on Life.......

 

Mom had her first chemo treatment on October 29th.

She is doing AMAZINGLY well....

I am so very proud of her, she is being very strong

and positive throughout this all.

 

I am a firm believer that attitude gets you a long ways,

especially where your health is concerned.

 

She is going to have 6 months of chemotherapy.

We are meeting with a radiation oncologist on the 16th

to see if she needs radiation too.

That will need to be done in Victoria, which is

 1.5 hours away, kind of sucks but at least there is

somewhere on the island that does it and

we don't have to go to the mainland.

 

She has had no nausea, a bit of a sinus headache

the night of the first treatment, which was taken

care of with good ol' Tylenol. We were told

this may happen.

 

She has been sleeping good and eating well.

 

She is having some issues with swelling in

her right arm, which we knew could potentially

happen. She has started to wear a compression sleeve

and is having lymphadema massage to help it.

 

We are waiting for her hair to fall out.

Sounds weird saying that but we were told

day 14 is when it would happen, so

pretty much any day now. I am debating

whether to shave it or just let it go.

I will let her decide that.

 

Mom and I took a drive to Victoria last

Monday and found her a wig and some

new hats to wear so she is all ready to go

when her hair falls out.

 

Have I mentioned how proud I am of her?

She is my hero...... =)



A Long Due Post........

It has been awhile since I have posted.

I have been finding it hard to be overly creative as

of late. My last post, June 17th, was EXACTLY a 

week before I found out my mother has breast cancer.

Cancer is not a rarity in my family, in fact, I pretty much

know my fate, it is just a matter of when. 

For some reason {because my mother was turning 70} 

I thought she was in the safe zone.

Silly me, being in the medical profession, I knew

that was not the case but I was hopeful. 

You never want to see your mother go through 

something like this. 

My dad is also a survivor of cancer and I know

my mom will also fight it because she has

her family in her corner fighting with her. 

Hopefully, once everything has settled down

a bit and we find out what the next steps are

{she is currently healing from her 2nd surgery}

I can join the ranks of creating and posting again....

Birthday Wishes For a Coworker... =)

It's feels good to be posting again....

Today's make is for a coworker who

has just joined our team over the last month.

As many of you are aware, I make

birthday cards for all my co-workers.

This card is using the Saturated Canary

image. This little cutie was part of a digi 

pack that is currently available.

Her name is Sweetheart!

This is quite a simple card but that seems

to be my type as of late. I am really liking

the clean and simple lines.

Copics

E000, E00, E04, E11, E21, E25, E27, E29,

R20, R22, R24, YG13, YG25

The sentiment is from my all time favourite

one stop shop, Simon Says Stamps,

This sentiment is actually from the

Big Birthday Wishes stamp set.

For the sentiment, I used Stampendous's glitter

embossing powder.

Artistic View

Gina K Kraft card stock

Black layering card stock

Prima Doodle Deux DP

Stitched Circles

Sm Scalloped Circles 

SSS - Big Birthday Wishes

Hope you enjoyed this card I made.

Thanks for visiting....

Happy Birthday to My Nephew With Kenny K.. =)

So it's my nephew's birthday today!

I can not believe that he is 11 years old,

where does the time go?

I had a hard time finding the perfect digital

image to use for his card. He is a sports

fanatic! He plays on his LAX and hockey rep teams.

I am certainly super proud to call him my nephew!

The image I used was from Kenny K.

It is called Anime Hockey.

I chose to ink it up in his team colours

so it is more personalized.

The sentiment for this card was made

by me on my computer.

Copics

E000, E00, E04, E11, E41, E42, E43, E44,

E50, E51, E52, R20, BG00, YR13, YR16, YR18,

C0, C1, C3, C5, C7, C9, T0, T2, T4

I popped the image and sentiment up with the 

3D pop ups to make the image stand out!

Artistic View

Gina K 80lb Pure Luxury White

Black layering card stock

EP Jack & Jill

AC Basics

Pop Up Stickies

I really hope you enjoyed this little

number I came up with.

Thanks for visiting...