Day 14 - Sunshine and Rain

Today was a big win for Team Simpson!!  The best part of today?  Telling Steph and Tom the good news!!  It felt SO good to share some good news with them!! You'll have to read all the way to the end to get the good news too, if you don't already know. :-)

 

2013 has been an awesome summer for the NW.  Glorious weather for nearly two months.  Fun, sun, and family!  Hardly any measurable rain. Then, today, the rain hit all at once.  A sudden downpour of sheets and sheets of rain.  Followed, almost immediately, by a weather forecast for more glorious sunshine soon. The rain was so impressive that I just couldn't resist the opportunity to act like a kid and run outside and dance in it for fun. 

This summer's weather seemed to mimic our family's experience for the past two months.  Glorious times with the road to the State Baseball Championship game, graduations, and celebrations of milestones in our family.  Then, suddenly, out of no where, it started to pour sheets and sheets of rain into our lives with the cancer diagnosis.  It was raining so hard that we felt like we were drowning at times. 

 

While it poured down on us, our friends and family poured out their hearts in prayers, moral support, and good thoughts! That kept us above the water line.

Yesterday, in true team spirit, Steph and Tom chauffeured me to  the PET/CT scans and then to St. Joseph's for the brief surgery to install the chemo port.  Tough work, but I was grateful they went with me for moral support and to understand things better. I was very worried that the scans would show a broader scope of the metastasized cancer.

 

Then today, even though it is still pouring, we got to dance in the rain!! In fact, that rain dance was so powerful that there is now a forecast for more glorious sunshine soon too!  The PET/CT scans show NO ACTIVITY outside of my left and right breasts and associated lymph nodes!!  Right now, I am the happiest person with cancer on the planet.  I don't even care that I just said the words "breasts" in public!  I'll blush about it later (smile).

Life is GOOD.  Keep up the prayers and good thoughts.  We have felt the power of a loving and humorous Father in Heaven.  The road ahead will be challenging, but we can now see sunshine in the distance.  It beckons and we will work as hard as we can to reach it.