If You're Happy and You Know It

This has been a boring week on my blog! I guess that's a good thing cuz there has been nothing to write about! I am just doing so well and not sick and just being a normal person so I don't know what to put on here for my avid readers :)

I still have my hair! It started coming out Monday night, but just like 2-3 strands at a time. It has sped up a little the past 2 days, now I can get a good 10-15 strands. But I have so much darn hair you can hardly tell! Even though I've collected enough to clothe a woolly mammoth. Pretty crazy. The shower today? Yuck! Haha. Looks like I might have to shave my head in Powell though :( LAME. It won't be much of party down there, but maybe I'll be able to hold out till we get back. We'll see what I start to look like. And I mean, who hasn't wanted to see themselves bald? I think everybody has at least wondered it at one time. Now I'll get the chance! And I've always wanted to be brave and chop off my hair in a cute pixie cut, now I will get to have one! Really I am quite lucky.

Um hmmmmmm Oh yeah. I AM GOING TO LAKE POWELL. Did you know its the bestest place in the world? If you didn't know, then I feel so sad for you. I love Lake Powell. And I love my cool family that I get to go with.

Last year at Powell. I am sooo cool at the air chair

Today I ran almost 4 miles! I was soooooo proud of myself. Thursday's run sucked and made me grumpy so I was extra excited to have such an awesome run today :) It was super fun and I am so glad that I can still run!

I don't know what else to say, just wanted to update everyone on my good health and my hair :) I will lose it soon, its much thinner, but I've still got it for now! Here are some pictures from our hike on the morning of the 24th. It was way fun.

Oh yeah. Sometimes people ask me how I'm "really" doing. Um, I'm seriously really doing as good as I say. I write the truth on this blog so if I say I'm doing awesome, I am :)

SMILE! And eat chocolate. It makes you happy. Seriously. Haven't you read Harry Potter?

Monkey Goes Under the Knife. And lives!

Well guys, I decided that monkey needed a port and a laparotomy scar. He was totally up for it, he says he wants to get better from cancer too.

Here's how it went:

He tolerated the procedure pretty well, said he felt no pain and no nausea on coming out of anesthesia. There were no complications during surgery. The scar looks like it is healing up nicely and the port is placed perfectly for access to his superior vena cava. He has almost lost all his hair, so he has started wearing head scarves. 

Here he is after surgery, still happy and alive! We now have matching scars, wristbands and ports. What a great friend!

Soon to be Mrs. Baldy

Well today is my 3rd chemo treatment. It's going great! I slept a lot of it, the Benadryl they give me just knocks me out :/ I hate it. But anyway, from what I have been reading and from talking to other ovarian cancer women it sounds like I'm going to start losing my hair today or tomorrow and it might be gone by the end of the week! Yikes! Just in time for me to tan burn it at Lake Powell haha. I am going to have a head shaving party as soon as it gets all thin and yucky looking. Everyone is invited to come. Its going to be really fun! Everyone will get to cut a chunk off (if there is that much) and we'll play Pictionary on my head and have lots of yummy food :) When the time comes I will make a Facebook event and invite you all :) Unless I have to cut it off at Lake Powell, then everyone will miss it. I'm holding on to it until the last possible day! Its pretty weird that one day you can have hair and the next....it could be gone. Lots of people have said that theirs all fell out within a few days. I have a quite a few cute hats though, I'll be stylish :) Except for my missing eyebrows....that'll be lame.

Also, I started the list of nicknames you can start calling me. If you think of some other good ones, let me know :)

• Cue Ball
• Baldy
• Baldilocks
• Squeekers
• Chrome Dome

Pretty funny. You know what else would be funny, if I warned everyone I was going to lose my hair and then I kept it for like 3 more weeks. The doctors keep saying I will but every other cancer patient that has gone through it says otherwise. So I really don't know. Better to prepare for it now. My mom is really sad. She said she doesn't want to come to my party! I will be sad too, but no sense in being sad while I still have it!

Here's some pretty pictures by Jessie Oberg Photography. She is an amazing photographer

Well chemo went great today, now I get to spend time with my awesome mom. She does so much for me. Hope this week goes well! Holiday tomorrow...whoop whoop!

What I Do When I'm not a Cancer Patient

Because I have been feeling so good still and I haven't lost my hair yet, I really don't feel like there is anything wrong with me. I don't feel sick, I'm not all that tired, I mean really, it is weird. I have cancer, right? Besides having to go to the hospital every Monday and being super slow at running suddenly I don't feel like much has changed (yet). I am sure that I will be singing a very different tune in a few weeks, but for now I am enjoying normalcy.

Since I have been enjoying normalcy, there is nothing really to write about or update people on. But here are some of the things I have been doing.....

This is me pre-cancer on my 22nd birthday

2 days after I was diagnosed. I biked 80 miles with my mom

Weeding our garden

This is what I will look like when I grow a mustache

On Thursday I hiked Mt. Timpanogos with my awesome sister! She was such a good sport, letting me rest every 5 feet and being so patient. It was so much fun and beautiful up there!! I had a great time even though I was a more tired than I expected ha. We took lots of pictures and they are all so pretty!

Hope I get to keep doing fun things! My life rocks!