Full Circle

To my faithful blog followers, family and friends....I'm here to catch you up on what's been a VERY busy and eventful 6 months since my last blog entry.  It's utterly amazing to see how God has brought me FULL CIRCLE in my fight to defeat breast cancer and move forward.  Since there is so much of the daily stuff I could share, I'll try to stick with the summary of the these last months:

Nicole and I at LMI

Toward the end of senior year, I asked to shadow and train in mammography to see if I liked it and could handle it.  It was a blessing to be able to train at LRMC under Margaret a veteran mammographer and breast cancer survivor and now a special lady in my life.  She truly has a passion for helping women newly diagnosed with breast cancer.  It was an honor to learn from her and sweet Cathy.  I also began attending a breast cancer support group that they lead at LRMC that's open to the survivor and their family members.

I started back on the worship team at my church, Bushnell Assembly.  I had taken a needed break during my treatments.  A little embarrassing leading a song and have your scarf fall off of your bald head.  I'm not that brave.  Its great to be able to do  something I love again and lead people in worship especially side by side with my sons.








I was thrilled to be able to once again write and direct our Easter Production of "THE CHRIST", a creative passion of mine.  This is a unique drama and music adaptation of the life of Christ which encompassed about 100 of our church family to make it happen.  It was a lot of work but I loved every minute of it and felt it such an honor to tell His story.  My church and family were wonderful to work so hard to make this a reality.



Prop making.



Everyone's favorite Last Supper scene in frozen and moving shots.

 

Thanks to my son for his moving portrayal of Jesus.















And to my husband for being willing to play a pharisee!

Then May brought an event I've worked and waited for almost 4 years.  GRADUATION from radiography school with my A.S. degree.  FINALLY!  With having to take the year off for my treatments and surgeries, it seemed to take forever, but felt good that I finally was able to complete it thanks to the support and constant encouragement of my family and friends.  I passed my registry boards, another stressful thing I'm glad is behind me and was blessed to be hired as a mammo tech at Lake Medical Imaging in the Villages one of my clinical sites.  Feels amazing to earn a paycheck for a change for all the hard work.

Isn't it amazing how much has happened in a year?  I'll share more about my life and feelings as a mammographer in an upcoming blog.  There's much I have to say on that, but wish for now to simply end by encouraging any woman who might read this to BE ENCOURAGED.  God is not through with you yet.  Keep up the fight, live in the NOW (a favorite theme of Carmen from my bc group) with joy and courage.  I don't know what's around the corner, but I know God is there and he wants to use me in the NOW!