What a beautiful white Christmas. I hope this finds all of you with joyful hearts. I know that this time of year can be so full of stress and anxiety. But we have to STOP, and remember what the real meaning of Christmas is. God sent us his son, the best most priceless gift we can ever receive. If we receive this gift, we are promised eternal life, can we even imagine what that means? So as you finish the gift wrapping, food preparation, and our love ones arrive, lets make sure Jesus is part of our day. After all it is his birthday. To night before we climb into bed, lets all get on our knee's, lift our faces to heaven and thank God for the best gift ever. Let this Christmas be full of Christ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Feeling really good. Met with the Dr's on Monday, they have agreed to let me wait to start radiation and chem until we get back from our trip in January. Again another great blessing.

Hope all of you have the best Christmas ever, I know I am thrilled to be sharing another one with family and friends

Love always, God bless and guide
Sue

Dec 15th

Hi, I just talked to a friend, who told me I need to update this site more often. That people worry when I don't update the blog. Well sorry to worry anyone, but no news is good news.
I would think you have had a belly full of me by now. Seriously I am doing well, I get things done around the house the first few hours in the morning, then I rest. Angie and the girl's visited from Nebraska, Chuck and Diane came for a over night. When ever we can we get out to live this wonderful life.
I can have my staples out tomorrow, on Dec 22 we meet with Dr's to go over the treatment options. We will see what their plan is, but we are hoping to hold up any treatment until after our cruise in early January. We have been saving and planning since my diagnosis in Sept of 2006 for the 6 of us to go on a cruise. It will have to be pretty serious for me to start treatment before then. I will update the site monthly unless something changes in my health, then will will let people know asap.

Stay warm, God's many blessings to all
Love always
Sue

In loving memory of Kelly Swee

Update from home

I have been home recovering since Wednesday, and I am feeling good. There is no place like home. I am getting plenty of rest,. I can not write anymore about me until I share and grieve with so many the loss of Kelly Swee on Monday. While I was preparing for surgery, Kelly lost the battle of brain cancer at the age of 40. She was the mother of 2 young boys, wife of an incredible man and friend to so many of us. I have heard many times of my strength, but let me tell you, I never stood a candle to her strength. To know her was a great blessing to my life. We have lost several dear friends, Elise, Greg, Mike, Fred,Kelly) this year. I will continue their fight as they will be with me always.

I don't know where to start or say thanks any more. It seems way to simple, for what you have all done for me. First Ed your love and support is what keeps me grounded. Holly, Drew, Steve, Keeley you have know idea of the joy you give me daily. Barb, Ashley, Steve, Holly thanks for decorating the house for Christmas, it is beautiful and helped us out so much. To all my family, and friends who came to support me, to all of you who followed the blog (special thanks to Hol), to all who wrote me notes. You you can not imagine the joy I feel to read all your encouragement to me and our family.

Have a few weeks before we meet with radiology and Oncology to see when we begin the next round. God keeps us strong and we are not wasting one day being sad, or worried. That to us is a waste of time and energy. We have today and we will enjoy it. We are now up to visitors and calls. Thanks for giving us time to settle in.

God's blessing today and always
Love always Sue

Thumbs up!

She is doing great! Making jokes, asking all of her visitors how they are doing and feeling! That's mom...always thinking of everyone else! She is tired, but doing awesome. She asked me to thank all of you for your thoughts and prayers.

Out of Surgery

She is out of surgery, and so far so good! Barb, Nancy, Drew, Keeley, Pastor Shirley, Dad, Steve and I just met with the surgeon, and he said that things went as well as we could have hoped. He was confident that he was able to get the tumor as identified by the MRI.

She is groggy right now, but responding well to all of the questions and tests that they are giving her to make sure that nothing was affected while they were in there. She is even asking to go home tomorrow!

She will be in recovery for the next hour or two, and then we will be able to see her.

Thanks again for everyone's prayers!

In surgery....

While she is in surgery, my mom has asked me to keep the blog updated. While they were checking her in, she asked me if I had a camera phone to "Take a picture for my blog!" It is not possible to put into words how much all of the love, support, and prayers from each of you means to her, and she wanted to be sure that you are all kept in the loop with everything that happens today. My mom has people all over the country thinking of her and saying prayers for her today, and all of your well-wishes and notes are keeping her going as strong as ever.

Right now we are sitting in the waiting room, watching the status board and waiting to hear something. Mom entered the OR at 7:58am, and they expect to start surgery around 9:00. They expect the surgery to last around 3-4 hours, and we will be sure to update as soon as we hear anything.

Thanks again for all of the prayers! Keep saying them this morning!

Love,

Holly