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Hello, kind reader, and thanks for coming! You are probably reading this because you fall into one of the following categories:

1. My family
2. My near and dear friends
3. You accidentally typed in the wrong URL

But if, by chance you are not a part of one of those categories I hope you will still take a minute to read some of my posts. What I'm all about is cancer, particularly adolescent cancer. I had it, I owned it, I beat it, and here I am today. I am now getting my doctorate doing research with adolescent cancer patients and survivors. I came out okay on the other end of something awful, and now I want to make a difference by helping others. The way I see it, it's all about support--helping each other, seeing that someone has been there and made it. When I was 16 I felt completely alone, and I don't want others to feel that way. My idea is that maybe we can help each other by talking and sharing our stories. So here are some of mine...


Casey


Monday, May 23, 2011

Happy Monday!

What a paradox, I know: "Happy Monday". But unlike most Mondays, this one is rather happy. You see, my dears, the kind and wonderful radiologist I saw called me yesterday (yes, he took time out of his Sunday to call me--good people do still exist!) and he told me that the biopsy showed a benign fibrous adenoma! So hooray!!! Breast tumor down, liver tumor to go! I am extremely confident that this is largely due to all of your generous outpourings of thoughts, prayers, and sweet words. I am so blessed to have such wonderful people in my life to get me through these bumps (and by "bumps", I mean "sometimes bumps, but other times gigantic potholes or bottomless pits") in the road and keep me going.

With great news like that it makes it difficult not to see the sunny side of even not-so-sunny things. For instance, I now am only about 10 days away from comps, but I am handling the panic pretty well, I think. Sure, all of this studying and thinking is rather miserable, but, at least I have a nice cozy office to work in! In fact, I am considering bringing a sleeping bag to work and making a nest of sorts underneath my desk (anyone see that episode of Seinfeld?). Just take a look at all the space:


And sure the stress is causing me to break out like a 13 year old boy the summer before 9th grade, but hey, that's okay! Luckily with all of the studying isolation no one can see my poor, splotchy skin anyway! I'm still working on the brightside of mouth ulcers, but the fact that I think there might be one at all seems kind of promising, right? See, there is a brightside to (most) everything, even when you realllly have to reach to find it, ha! So for now, take it all in stride and join me in my mission of finding positives in the not-so-positive. Just look at what wonderful wallpaper studying makes:



Ha. And hopefully within the next week I will have something actually interesting to tell you about. I'm hoping to get a free night to be crafty again, but until then I will settle for being crafty (really just colorful) with my studies... Love you all!

C
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  1. Marsha TeelMay 23, 2011 at 6:46 PM

    I am so grateful Casey, for your good news. God is good, ALL the time. Love you.

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