Hopefully you have decided to stick out the drought and still follow me. If you are still out there....thanks!!! I know it has been a while as usual with my updating. I feel like I always do this. I am all about something for an extended period of time and it slowly fades. I am trying to get back into things though....and this is the start.
As you can see from the title of this post, Dan and I decided to get married. We were married on the 19th of February. Everything was absolutely perfect!!! We got married at a local Catholic church. I had met the priest during a mass at school. He instantly spoke to me and he makes me want to go to church. He brought meaning to the mass for our wedding!! I don't think we would have had a full mass if we had not found a priest we liked.
We had our reception at a beautiful vineyard a little ways away. The ceremony was beautiful. The weather was perfect and we were able to open the doors at times and really feel we were outside. Everyone had such a good time and it was truly a celebration.
Though Dan and I wanted to wait until May to have warm weather and an outside reception, it was 70 degrees the Friday before our wedding and 55 on Saturday. Absolutely perfect! The vineyard was a perfect mix of wanting to be outside but having to be inside.
After the wedding we took a short getaway to Disney World. Which I had just been to for the first time about a month ago with my family. We went for a few days and did not nearly get to see everything. I have decided to make it a point to cross things off my bucket list and Disney was one. So we went as a family and it was a blast. I was lucky enough to get to go again with Dan for our mini honeymoon. We will take another trip.....to Australia....in the summer when we have off work. It was a great weekend/week. I did not want the fun to end. Family was in town, friends we hadn't seen in a while, all for this joyous occasion. But like all things....we had to go back to the working world and face reality again.
It is interesting when you get married. Society says a house and kids are next. Well I have never let myself think that far ahead, never really thought it was worth it. Now, those thoughts are definitely on my mind. I would love to start a family one day, and get our own place. I just can't help the responsibility to make sure Dan will be okay if something happens to me. If I commit to renting or buying a place to live with Dan and something happens to me, where does that leave Dan. If we start a family and something happens to me.....where does that leave Dan. It is a little much to think about really, so I don't yet. At least not until we look at our finances and see what we could actually do.
As you can see I am in a much better place then I was in December. Time has a way of doing this. In the end my doctors were hesitant to start the infusion treatment to prolong the leukemia because my counts were stable. I am taking a shot to help my white blood cells develop which will help me fight infections. As long as my counts are stable, there is not really any need to worry. I got the tumor radiated and as far as I can tell it has significantly shrunk. I had pain with it for a little while and now that is gone.
I took some time off work to get my head right with the news and deciding what I wanted to do with life. Time off to complete parts of my bucket list. I am still off work now, though desperate to go back. It made sense while planning a wedding, but now that the wedding is over, I don't have much to do during the day. There is no point in just sitting and waiting for my counts to drop; so I will do a couple mini trips to see friends and return to work in the end of March. I go visit the kids frequently, keep me going.
I will post pictures once I get them. I will also stay in touch better!!! Though the days aren't too exciting with nothing to do; perhaps having the blog will make me do something. We will see.
Thanks again for sticking it out!!
