The rain is pouring down this morning as I struggle to share today. The aches and stiffness on these days is terrible. Not looking forward to winter weather as I’ll have to spend much of it with the wood stove and electric blanket. May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the…… Continue reading Necessary Break

As I sit and write this morning, in a quiet house (our youngest five are out grocery shopping with daddy), drinking a tea, waiting for Hurricane Fiona I thought it would be a good time to catch everyone up on our summer closing. We were blessed with two more camping trips to end our summer.…… Continue reading Tummy Woes with Summer’s Close!

Summer is more than half over. The first half felt like a complete whirlwind to me. This week has been the first week I’ve been able to rest, nap and catch my breath. We did our first camping trip of the season over Canada Day weekend. My anxiety was through the roof with my inability…… Continue reading God’s Goodness in the Whirlwind

So I not only have Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer but have been officially diagnosed with Scleroderma. My bloodwork that had been sent to Alberta came back with several of the antibodies testing highly positive. This was not a surprise at all but to have the official diagnoses hurts and is scary. June is Scleroderma…… Continue reading Official Diagnoses

May continued to be a difficult month. My scleroderma has had further progression. The tightness extending down my legs further well into my knees then up into my pelvis and abdomen more. It’s also beginning to affect my swallowing and causing some skin break down. In 2 days I’ll finally be at my full dose…… Continue reading Glimmers in the Darkness

That would describe how this time in my life feels. The mountain is so very far off. Barely in view any more. The mountain I’m praying to be moved a mere bump on the horizon as it’s so far away. I call out to the Lord, and he answers me from his holy mountain.Psalms 3:4…… Continue reading Deep & Wide Valley

I have tried so hard to remain hopeful this past year…..my hope in Jesus does not waiver but my hope to feel better, my hope in living life somewhat normally again, my hope to not be in pain….I struggle deeply with, every day. With my symptoms progressing so rapidly, seeing definite weekly if not daily…… Continue reading Relief…Hope…Maybe.

This month my strength, ROM, tightness and stiffness continued to get worse, I need more and more help all the time and becoming more frustrated. I did get in to see a dermatologist, Dr. Peter Green and his resident, in Halifax. They were kind and concerned but unable to offer any help or answers to…… Continue reading Seeking Answers & Relief

Good news this month is we have happy healthy children! Our littlest is cast free! After 4 weeks, 1 day she healed beautifully and enjoyed supper in the city with us!❤ We celebrated Gramp. P.’s 75th birthday! Happy 75th!🎉🎂 This last month has been hard and frustrating. I had had a bit of a longer…… Continue reading Learning to say…yes!

Almost one year ago I wrote my first blog post. Crazy to look back over this past year, so thankful I documented, so thankful I shared as so many of those details would have been lost to my foggy chemo brain/memory. It’s also a little heartbreaking to look back and see how able I was,…… Continue reading February Fun….😬!