December, 2011

  1. Reminders are everywhere

    December 22, 2011 by Julie Moon

    I had a friend stop me at baby girl’s school last week to tell me about her sister who was just diagnosed with breast cancer.  She’s got four children, no family history and she’s young…maybe 40.  She was nursing her 8 month old and found a lump.

    I had another friend stop me at church to tell me that she finally went and had her first mammogram.  She’d been putting it off and decided to go and do it after hearing my story.

    These are the reminders that help me when I’m up late at night feeling nauseous that in only 42 days I will be changing my life in an intense way.  Christmas has been so busy it’s almost hard to even think about it yet.  Today I had to call and schedule a couple of things that must be done before surgery and it hit me hard.  I know this is right but man is it just MIND BLOWING all at the same time.

     


  2. It’s not about the money, money, money

    December 10, 2011 by Julie Moon

    We had all the bills come in today for Scarlett’s broken foot in October…xrays are not cheap.  That on top of the cost of my biopsy, mammogram, ultrasound.   We still have so many medical bills from this year, dental bills, etc…and the funniest part is that we were really all well all year.   So today as we were discussing the cost of my surgery it came up that maybe we should postpone the surgery another year.  I really have no idea how we are going to work another $5000+ into our budget for 2012.  So very grateful that we have health insurance and that this is even an option so that I am not facing a $200,000+ cost…but wow…still a lot to swallow.  I’m feeling really overwhelmed by the cost.

     


  3. He is with me

    December 3, 2011 by Julie Moon