I'm So Happy October is Over

October was not a very nice month for me. It seemed like one thing after another went sour or downhill.  As much as I hate bitching and moaning, I have little good to say about October, it is what it was!  Please bear with me and hang with me, I can really use your support.

The Good

There were many good things that happened, but it seems like many of us, me at the top of the list, allow the bad to just overwhelm and erase the good.  As a fighter, I at least recognize that and try to use the good to overcome.

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1. We got away for a couple days to visit you younger sister and brother-in-aw at their home in Maine.  A few days of peace and relaxation (headache included)
2. Had several phone calls and messages from well wishers, supporters, friends, and those that really mean a lot to me.  I don't mean to leave anyone out, but for sure that's you Becca, Heidi G and Heidi T, Antoinette, Deb, Doug, Barry & Ruthie, Kevin, Kim, Wendi, Donda, Rebecca, Crystal, Stacey, Catherine, Penny, MJ, Anne, Jill, and so many more of you.  I sit here going through the list in my head because thinking of so many of you gives me so much strength and inspiration.
3. The help and support from Paul at Exotic Motors in Hadley.  I had to reach out to Paul several times this month and he is just such a great guy ... always there and willing to help.  
4. Trick or Treating with my grand kids, kids, Carol and other friends.
5. Watching Carol start with Christmas decorating earlier than we ever had in the past.  It such a nice time of year, why not celebrate it more, after all, WalMart does.

The Not So Good

1. An MRI at the beginning of the month showing us all that my cancer has stopped responding to the chemotherapy ... thus, I have been taken off FOLFIRI.  Now just waiting for the next steps.  So, I've sat here for a month just watching my tumor markers go higher and higher, and there no urgency to action being taken my the medical community.  UGH!!!
2. I think my car, or the cars I have borrowed while mine have been in the garage, probably a half dozen times this month and who knows how many hundreds or thousands that has cost us.  UGH!!!
3. Mental break down and falling into the pit of worry, and losing the ability to be in control. UGH!!!
4. Having to write to my kids about topics none of us look forward to talking about.  Topics like wills, burial, desires after this journey ends, or just talking about the end of the journey.  Which leads me to ...
5. Lonsurf.  The oral chemo the medical team wants me to start taking.  Its not a first or second line chemo, it a chemo trying to buy a few extra months.  That topic alone is not helping ... I'm looking for 15-20 years, not 5-10 months.  UGH!!!  This by far has been my biggest issue this month.
6. The lack of timely response ... excuses of "miscommunication" ... the lack of nothing happening.

So where do I go from here?  I've been trying to get in contact with Corrie Yelland, a cancer survivor from Canada that I'm hoping to get some expert contact information from for cannabis dosing experts.  I don't seem to have any other options, so I am looking for alternative treatments, especially in the medical marijuana arena.  I have a belief that when I did a protocol of Rick Simpson Oil early this year after my liver surgery, it did help me and reduced the growth of my cancer.  My gut is telling me I have that and divine intervention to look forward to.

I'm looking forward to a much better November.  We are hosting a Scentsy Meet and Greet here at our soon to be decorated home, open to our team family members and guest interesting in hearing more about the Scentsy opportunity.  If you're not in this area and want to connect, let me know so I can get you connected to the event.

In mid November we are going to Orlando and I'm attending Mastermind 2020, I look forward to seeing so many of my bigger Scentsy family members, it will be a great few days, then we are celebrating Thanksgiving with Tyler and Zack.
I know there will be many more good things too, including the MRI I am having of my head/brain in about an hour.  Thus, I have to so see you soon and thanks for all you do to support me, I so much appreciate it. 

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