Thoughts from the T-Shirt Lady

Welcome to my Blog! As you can see by my photo, you see someone wearing a crocheted cap - with no hair! More about that later.

For years, I worked for the federal government, doing computer programming and customer service. The year 2006 saw the end of that - I retired in mid-2006, after 20 years! What a change. My husband retired as well - actually this was the 2nd time he retired, once from the military and once from the federal government.

Within 5 days of my retirement I found out that I had breast cancer! My mother had the same thing back in the 1960’s, so I guess it was inevitable for me.

What followed was surgery, radiation, and 8 rounds of chemotherapy. Had the last one in mid December 2006. My dh took care of me - it was great. I didn’t have to cook, wash dishes or even go to the grocery store - if I wasn’t feeling up to it. And that was most of the time. I did sleep a lot - grin - after working so many years and having to get up at 4am to get ready to go to work, the idea of naps and sleeping in was great - despite why I was having to do it.

The photo above was taken just yesterday - my hair is slowing coming back - still just fuzz right now.

Since my cancer was stage 1, we, my dh and I, have a very positive outlook. I’m on medication, and the doctors will be following-up with me for the next several years.

I wasn’t able to help my dh very much in 2006 with his farming, but 2007 will be better. I drive the tractor, and he picks the vegis and puts them in the trailor to be picked up by volunteers of the churches and foodbanks that we donate to. I’ll have to post a picture when I’m ‘back in the saddle’!

Sandi