good morning everyone. hope your day is starting well. my week has been pretty busy so far. monday i met with my surgeon and i am scheduled for surgery on aug. 20. tues was spent at the hospital getting a pelvic ultrasound and an MRI. i was supposed to get a breast ultrasound as well, but no one could figure out who was supposed to be doing it, so i went back and forth between the hospital, the healthcare plaza and my oncologists office for 2 hours before finally being re-scheduled at the plaza for weds. so i did that yesterday and the lady doing the test was amazed at how much the tumor had shrunk. it was very encouraging to hear. thanks so much to kathy d. for your help monday. elisabeth really enjoys spending time with you. thanks mary ruth and joanne and rachel for your help on tues. it so eases my mind to know that my kids are being well taken care of through all of this. elisabeth and i are going to my sisters this weekend for some fun at their house. it will be a nice break. next week i meet my radiation oncologist and get another PET scan. love, jennifer

it's saturday nite and i am feeling a little stronger each day. i went to lunch today with mom and rock and the heat was rough, but once i was inside i was fine. i just keep reminding myself that this is the last time i will feel this way (hopefully). i don't know how i will respond to radiation, but i really feel it will be easy after chemo. thanks for the prayers, jennifer

well, i am slowly but surely coming out of the chemo fog. the past two days have been mostly tiring. my body just does not have the energy to do what i want it to do. thank you donna and karen for the chicken nuggets- i need the recipe- and the other great food you brought. thank you cora for taking care of my girls for me. thanks as always to mom and rock for having them so much this week, it has helped tremendously! and thanks to my sweet husband who went ahead and got me a Wii! i said i wanted it for christmas, but he got it today. it's my anniversary present. i'm to tired right now to do it, but hopefully tomorrow i can at least bowl. i have several things coming up in the 2-3 weeks. meeting with my surgeon to set my surgery date, PET & CT scans, an MRI, another ultrasound. all these will help determine the extent of the surgery i guess. so please keep us in your prayers as we start on the final part of the journey. love you all, jennifer

hi. i have just gotten home from my LAST chemo! yeah! at the end of the treatment, the nurses gave out instruments- i got to bang the drum- and sang a congratulation song. it was fun and a nice send off. i also got a diploma that all the nurses signed. in a couple of weeks i will have some tests to make sure the chemo did what it was supposed to do, which i feel sure it did because the lump is very tiny now, about the size of a BB. my doctor couldn't even find at first. so i'll also meet with my surgeon and set a surgery date. then i move into the radiation phase. thank you all for your love and prayers and support through all this. there are still some hurdles to get over, but i feel the worst is over. many, many thanks again to kathy gardner for sitting with me through all my treatments. you are a wonderful friend and a great follower of god and his word. i have learned so much from you.

hi . this my good week and i am trying to get things done. this weekend will be fun. heather and the boys come over tomorrow morning, my sister and her family are getting in town sometime tomorrow and tomorrow i go to my first home-school curriculum convention. saturday will be spent at my sisters hotel onthe beach. we will play in the sand and wash off in the pool. sunday is my family reunion at hannah park. busy,busy. but all fun things. then comes monday. the only good thing (besides kathy g. sitting with me) is that it my LAST chemo! yeah! surprisingly, there is atouch of sadness about it. i really like my nurses and i probably won't see much of them after this. but i know they want me to be free of this disease almost as much as i do, so it will be alright. thanks carrie for the taco ring and cookies. the girls are gobbling them down. i have the chocolate ones as my special kids-in-bed treat. hope you all have a good weekend. i won't be at church for a while. if you have trouble posting a comment on the blog, you can e-mail me at sidjen1@gmail.com. love jennifer

hi everyone. i have felt pretty good these last few days. i was able to get several big chores done so that is a relief. my white blood counts went back up nicely (sid had me go in friday to get re-checked). i am glad because it gets hard sometimes staying in the house all the time. i am still praying about god's plan for me when all this through. i had already gone through training to volenteer at the humane society and i would still like to do that, but i feel that something to do with breast cancer is waiting for me as well. please join me in praying for that. thanks, jennifer

hi. i hope everyone had a wonderful fourth. this week was a little rough. thank you jackie, carol and tina for coming and taking of me and my girls. i don't know what i would do without all my angels on earth helping me get through this. i will probably say this over and over, but i have ONE treatment left! yeah! thanks to melissa, my almost sister-in-law, for the manicure and pedicure today. my toes look so happy. it was great to hang out. love you all, jennifer