A cool Saturday morning

Hi everyone! It is a cool but pretty Saturday morning here. I am planning on spending some time working in the garden, harvesting carrots and collard greens. But this post is really to update you on my walk with cancer. No big changes but I want to keep you current. I had a recent PET scan that showed one very small additional met. We already knew that my chemo treatment would change since I got the go-ahead from the cardiologist. So this new information didn't change much of anything. I also had another echocardiogram last week to check on my heart and it showed improvement over the previous echo, good news. Yesterday I started the new chemotherapy, Kadcyla. It is a newly approved drug combination that includes the Herceptin that I have been on for a while. Because it is new to me the treatment yesterday took 5 hours but future ones will be much shorter now that we know I tolerate it just fine. I was a little tired yesterday but honestly that probably wasn't the effect of the treatment but the fact that Michael and I attended a concert on Thursday night and got very little sleep. BTW it was a great concert with a Celtic band by the name of Gaelic Storm. We had a blast!!! So that is the news from here. All is well and I am excited to be on the new treatment. And I won't miss those painful shots in the rump from the last treatment! Glad to be off the Faslodex! Hoping all is well in your world and sending you all my love, Wendy

I've been captured!

Yesterday at the invitation of my neighbor Beverly I portrayed a woman captured by Seminole Indians during the start of the Second Seminole Indian War. the first battle of that war was at the site of the Dade Battlefield State Park. Yesterday there was a re-enactment of the battle and displays of what the life of both the Seminoles and the sutlers would have been like. So here are a selection of photos from the event.

A photo to go with yesterday's post

Here we are at Christmas Dinner!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

My Christmas Greeting comes to you right in the middle of the 12 days of Christmas. I hope you are still reveling in the joy of the coming of Jesus! I point this out as a salve to my conscience as it has been almost a month since I posted and I had intended to post BEFORE Christmas. Hopefully you have had plenty of time this week to enjoy His coming as well as time with your friends and families. We celebrated with my family here in central Florida. Christmas Eve and Christmas morning found us at Rob and Molly's house for great fun and gifts. And Christmas dinner we all went up to Dad's house (across the street from Molly's)for a serious feast! And we had the treat of friends Kimberly and Kendrick Lau joining us for dinner. We all had a great time. After dinner the Florida contingent of the next generation had a sleep over at Molly's house and I can only imagine that they had a good time. I guess we should ask Molly if she and Rob enjoyed the craziness too. Work has been busy as expected this time of year. The Parks are full of Guests but everything is running smoothly. I so enjoy being in the Parks during these busy days and getting to interact with the folks from all over the world who came to celebrate with us. The weather has been beautiful particularly if they are from the colder regions. It has been plenty warm here to even enjoy the water parks and swimming pools. My health news is all good. I had a stress test yesterday and the doctor said it was fine. That means that my chemo treatments can likely go back to the one that my medical oncologist really wants to use, Kadcyla. So I figure we will get started with that new treatment sometime in January. I will keep you up to date, promise! Again I am wishing you all the best during this Christmas season and throughout the new year. I love you and thank you for the support! Wendy

How did it get to be December already?!

Hi everyone, I just don't know where the time goes. We had a great Thanksgiving last week. Lots of folks including some new and old friends. We did miss having Arra Mae and my brother Rob's family but I don't know where we would have put them. The house was busting its seams. We did get to include friends of mine from work, Kimberly and Kendrick and their parents Mae and Joseph. We also included the family of my nephew Jake's best girl Shayna. Her mom, Kathy and dad, Mike and grandmother, Josefina all of whom were good sports about the craziness at our house and were very interesting to talk with during the evening. Then Friday we headed to Pineland for a fishing and fun weekend with the Bundschus and Doerrs. I get to brag for having caught the only legitimate fish (in that it was a trout) Stan did catch a catfish/tourist trout but we decided it didn't count. Attached is a picture of my fish, you may need a magnifier! The poor little thing must have barely managed to eat the shrimp I had on as bait! Saturday evening some of the neighbors joined us for an appetizer and dessert party. Elmer won for the best pie (and there was quite a variety)with his homemade key lime pie. There were a lot of votes for the coconut cream and the banana cream too. And then we entertained ourselves with a sing along of old songs we all knew. It sounds corny but we had a blast!!! Other than that there is nothing new to report, all is well on the medical front. I will promise to try and stay more current on my postings. Hope you all are enjoying the Christmas Season. Don't let the hustle distract you from the Joy! Love Wendy

Health updates

Hi Everybody, Just wanted to give you the latest updates which are all good. Recent scans that were looking for heart and spinal issues following the tumor scare in September have all come up with nothing new to report. Yeah! And thanks be to the Lord who has held me safe in His merciful hand! After the doctors discuss the recent results I expect we will be back on track for treatments. Thank you all for your thoughts, prayers and kind words. I wanted you to know how much I appreciate them and how well everything is going. Love you all, Wendy

I needed my IT guy!

These photos are from the trip to the Dominican Republic and I have been trying to post them since last weekend. I am a dunce at this and needed my IT guy (Michael) to help me shift the photos to our desk top before I could post them. Yeah Michael! Hope you all enjoy the pics of the beautiful Caribbean city of Santo Domingo.