Picture Time!

Howdy ya'll. So my dad suggested I throw a few photos up for people to see and give a little background about me and what's going on. So here goes!

One of my favorite things to do before getting sick was going to Moab, UT with my family. We'd just hang out for a few days, go to Arches National Park and hike, swim at the motel, shop for t-shirts and just have a grand old time. I always thought of myself as having a good sense of humor and I really loved to laugh and loved anything that made me laugh. I always had good health too. Other than getting sprained ankles a few times from sledding and basketball, I was rarely in the doctors office. So when I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma in September of 2007 it was a pretty big shock to me and my family! Thankfully I've been able to keep my good sense of humor and have still found things to laugh at and have hopefully made a few other people laugh as well.

My hair did some pretty crazy things for awhile. I had grown it out quite long right before getting diagnosed, long for me anyway. After a few weeks of chemo it started to fall out just a little bit here and there, but not completely. If I remember right, I cut it shorter just so that I wasn't leaving these long hairs all over the house, but I still had plenty of hair left on my head. And so it stayed for almost the entire 6 months of chemo. I say almost because, wouldn't you know it, about 2 weeks before my last round of chemo all my hair decided to come out. Pretty strange that it would wait so long to completely fall out! Thankfully I didn't stay bald long and my hair grew back fairly quickly after my last round, Feburary of 2008. You can see that by June it was back to "normal" length for me, though oddly enough it came back in darker and little thicker too. I started chemo again in October '08 and after just one round of chemo all my hair fell out again. So it's been quite the winter so far, having to wear a beanie around to my doctors appointments and such just to keep my head warm!

This is the face I make when I make new posts.