What a year... well, it's been almost two years since my last post... I think I'm going to do some rebranding on this blog and make it more about all the stuff going on... not just scrapping, I do still scrapbook... more of my sewing and quilting, more of life (now I'm a grammie and also fighting breast cancer), more of my Teachers Pay Teachers products...
Lets start with the happy news that I am a grammie! My grammie name is CeCe since it sounds like Stacy with littles start talking. The sweetest little boy arrived six months ago and we are all head over heals in love with him!!
It's so fun to have a little to scrapbook again!!!!
I've also had so much fun quilting and sewing!!!
Here are some quilts I have made.
I also got an embroidery machine last year and have had so much fun learning to make unique items and playing around!!!
Last year was an amazing year for me. I became Grammie CeCe, wrote and illustrated my first childrens book, taught myself machine embroidery..... this year is gonna be tough.
My entire life has been flipped upside down since January..... Some may call me strong or brave, but the truth is, I just want to live my life to its fullest potential, and in order to do that I must put poison into my body and have chunks removed.
I’ve spent the last months with over 10 doctors appointments, ultrasounds, mammograms, MRIs, 2 biopsies, echocardiogram, 2 rounds of bloodwoork, and genetic testing. I’ve meet my surgeon, plastic surgeon, nurse prationers and oncogist.
I’ve become part of a club that I never ever thought I’d ever become part of. A club that no one ever wants to join. I have invasive ductal carcinoma, grade 2, triple positive breast cancer. I’ve named my tumor Becky. (Sorry to any Becky’s out there.) Becky is 5 cm (the size of an airpods case) and she is about to get her ass kicked and hopefully, she takes all her little friends with her and leaves no stragglers.
This type of cancer is a cancer that starts any milk duct and spreads outside of the milk duct, meaning she in invading other tissues. The triple positive means that she tested positive for estrogen and progesterone and HER2, which is a protein found in the tumor. Currently she has not invaded my lymph nodes., as I write this.
I have chemo every three weeks and have finished the first three, then surgery, then maybe radiation depending on the surgery, and then infusuions for the next year.
I’ve been through every emotion I could possibly imagine in the last month. I’ve gotten angry, sad, scared, worried. I’ve cried and prayed. I know survival rates are in my favor. I know this is just a massive bump in the road. I know everybody says I’m lucky that it was caught early and I’m lucky that it’s only stage one and I’m lucky that my routine mammogram found it, but I will tell you that at the moment I don’t actually feel lucky. I don’t think anybody who actually has cancer ever feels lucky.
So, if you are the praying type (like me), please include me in your prayers for the next year or so. Also, LADIES, go get your routine mammograms!!!!! EVERY YEAR!!! Becky was found on January 9th at my routine mammo!!!
So.... that's it for now...
Love, Stacy
