5 years...wow!

The doctors have told me that this cancer has been with me for a while, possibly as long as 5 years. This sorta flips me out. How can that be when I have been so fastidious with my annual mammograms?!?!? My mom died of breast cancer...so I have taken that annual appointment very serious.

But lately I have had a new perspective. I am not trying to be annoyingly optimistic. It is just that I cannot change what has happened. And there truly are so many more positive things for me to focus on.

So here I go. My David Letterman Top 10 reasons why all this is happening now.

10. I am too distracted to worry about the Stock Market. Is it down to 10,000 yet?

9. Ditto, except with the candidates. I know I should be embarrassed to admit this. But I am just not involved in this election. The whole thing makes my blood pressure go up so I am taking a pass...just this one time.

8. I finally got my hair all one length and long....and it bugs me. Can't wait to shave it all off most days. Ha! Now my wish is coming true.

7. Right now I am physically and emotionally stronger than I have ever been in my life. I can handle this.

6. I have finished all the final renovations on my dated 60's ranch house.

5. Moving to this neighborhood created a whole other social network for me. I am blessed with amazing friends, truly amazing. I could astound you with stories of how Carrie, Brenda, Linda, Elizabeth, Shelly, Julie B., Lorrie W., Susan and so many others have been such good friends. Now, living in University Meadows Neighborhood, that circle has grown (and I have taken up Pokeno). If this was 5 years ago I would have still been in the hood and would not know Lorrie, Kellie, Christy, Leslie, Becky, Julie, Stacy, Bettina, Allie, Lisa, Colleen, Tilly, Francie, Davanel and so many others. In fact, if I was still in my old neighborhood I would have to ask one of the homeless guys on the corner to take me to my chemo appointments. lol

4. In the last many years I have LOVED, loved my job and working with the fabulous people I call my SkillSoft family. My company, SkillSoft , is the best! The people I work with and for are truly my family. And the solutions we provide rock, in case any of you out there reading work at 7-Eleven Corporate headquarters (where I have been trying to get my foot in the door for 2 years. please return my phone calls) :-)

3. I am closer to my church now than 5 years ago. In fact, 5 years ago I think I was still a "strick-Catholic-school-upbringing" rebel. This one must also include our school family. Both my kids are at Zion Lutheran. Oh my gosh...our school family is made up of some of the nicest people in the whole world!!! They really love Oscar and Angelica ... and we ADORE all of them!

2. My sisters and I have all matured and become best friends over the last several years. We are all close, always have been, but over the last couple years we seem to all be more accepting of each other. Even though it is still a burden for me to be the only normal one in this family! ha ha ha Just kidding...little family joke.

1. If this had been discovered 5 years ago, I would not have my children. 'Nough said.


God is so good!


xoxo