National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and 5 ? Friday!

 

As many of you know, this topic is something near and dear to my heart.  In summary, my husband is a cancer survivor - in particular of a childhood cancer.  Rhabdomyosarcoma is a soft tissue cancer that usually occurs in children under the age of 8 - before puberty.  My husband was diagnosed at age 23.  He was too old to be treated at St. Jude Children's Research in Memphis, TN, but because he had a childhood cancer, and because it was EXTREMELY rare for him to have it at his age, he was accepted, treated, and ultimately cured.  God put his angels at St. Jude to treat these sweet babies...Nothing is more humbling in the world than being at a place with so many sick children, who, despite the way they feel, still have smiles on their faces.  If you do nothing else today, visit the St. Jude website and donate, or even buy something from their adorable gift shop..all proceeds go right back into the hospital!

 

Donate to St. Jude Here

 

 

 

And now on to......

 

                                                           Link up here!

 

 

1. Shoes in the house - yay or nay?

 

    Yay, Yay, and Yay!

2. What do you call them- flip flops, slippers, thongs, etc?

 

     flip flops!

3. What song are you almost embarrassed to admit you know all the lyrics to?

 

    Miley Cirus - Party in the USA

4. What is the best quality to have in a friend?

 

    Trust

5. Do you know what you want for Christmas?

 

    to be pregnant!!! OF COURSE!!

Top 2 Tuesday

Link up over at Taylor's Blog

Top two things on your Christmas wish list.......

My wish list is a little different from everyone else...we are not in the position to do gifts this year with the expenses that we will be paying for at the beginning of next year..so I don't think about the superficial things that I would love to have this year...so, here goes...

1.  A baby....I know I have beat this subject with a stick and ran over it twice..but it's true..I say baby because I hope God keeps providing for us the way he has been, and we are able to qualify for this compassionate care program for free drugs...If we qualify for this, we will almost have enough to pay for our IVF in January, which hopefully (***Crosses fingers****) will give us a sweet little baby (ies) by next Christmas...that would be my dream come true...

2. Continued good health for my husband.. We have been sooo lucky to have the amazing hospital and amazing doctors in our lives.  They saved him and I am fully convinced that without their will to save lives and their love of cancer research my husband wouldn't have came as far as he has today.  He is perfectly healthy.  The Radiologist showed us the scans yesterday right after they were taken and said, yet again, that Matt's nasal cavity where the tumor once consumed is now textbook perfect.  There is no scarring or anything there that would suggest the tumor had ever been there, which is rare with as much radiation as he had to that area.  They also published his facial measurements because he has come so far since treatment.  They said he really was a star patient.  There is nothing better in this world that watching the interactions between the doctors and patients at St. Jude.  I can't put into words the relief and tension that goes away when we leave St. Jude with a great report like we did yesterday!!