Hello out there!!!
I can't believe how long it has taken me to write this entry. I hope you are still there!!
Well I got scanned and no one could have anticipated the results. I am still TUMOR FREE!!!! Can you believe it? 6 months. This is of course, the longest I have been tumor free since the start. It is amazing. I never thought I would get to this point; with what I have seen and been through. I was nervous approaching this scan because I had a pain around my left shoulder for almost a week before. I couldn't help but think it was a tumor; though I have been doing therapy on my shoulder and I also contributed it to a strained muscle. I was extremely happy to find out that it was the second one.
So now that I don't have to go back to NIH for a couple months...what will I do with my time. I am very good at filling my summers to the max. I will complete my last 2 classes during this summer. I am taking one now and will take the other one after.
I am in Wisconsin this weekend for my birthday. It is nice to get some one on one time with Dan. I don't know what is in store for my birtday....but I am sure I will not be disappointed.
Next week I will be running my first volleyball camp on my own. There will be about 13 middle school aged girls. I am really excited. I am used to working with this level of player when I am helping out at other camps, but now I am the one in charge. This volleyball camp is actually a lead into a potential job. The school, St. Mary's Ryken, needs a volleyball coach in the fall. They also have a PE teacher who will be retiring in a year or so and I would have a foot in the door for that job. It is crazy that I might have a career soon. I am so used to summer jobs and school it is hard to picture real world.
I also have another volleball coaching interview coming up on Wednesday. I do not want to say too much about it because I don't want to jinx it. I feel like things are coming together. I am happy to know that I will be able to be involved with a team next year....it would have been wierd not to be. My own team....strange. Sometimes I doubt if I am ready or not; I just have to do it and have faith that everything will go great.
I hope to take a couple trips this summer.... but as usual, summer is speeding by. I want to visit Jodi out in Cali. I have meant to go out there for so long now, it is time.
It is extremely nice to be able to make plans.....yet very scary at the same time.
