Long time coming!

Apologies to all my die hard fans, I haven't written a blog in about 6 months. Terrible.
Life has been good to me.

I just celebrated a whole year cancer free on the 10th of January!!!!!! Yahooo!

 

Me at the hospital having my last round of chemotherapy - 10th January 2014

 

A comparison photo of my 2014 Christmas and my 2013 Christmas!

I have had ups and downs throughout 2014. Many emotional battles relating back to having lived with cancer. It sill is a battle and I know I will live with these thoughts for a long time. I won't forget it. Every time I look in the mirror I see a different person to who I was before I got sick. It's hard to be normal and just accept that this is who I am and what I look like now. To everyone else I am the same, but to myself, I am different.

I got back into sport and exercise, which I was sad about losing the ability to do so during treatment. Simple things like that just remind me how much better I am. I'm trying to hold on to that life perspective I had during my sickness, but this world and the way it thinks it creeping back into my daily life. Trying to fight it!!

Anyway...to some other chirpy news...

A lot of ridiculously GOOD stuff has happened too! I was able to share my story with a bunch of women at a ladies coffee night at church. It was daunting and fun all at the same time.

I've been working at a job I actually love and enjoy. Still nursing, but it is less public hospital and shift-worky. It's great.

My sister got married on the 4th of October! It was such a fun day and she looked incredibly beautiful and happy.

 

I have been on many little getaways. Yallingup, youth camps, Busselton. Which, this time I was actually able to swim and enjoy the sun, sand and beach way of life!!

Spent Christmas and New Year with my amazingly generous family and friends.

I have been fishing with my very own new rod and reel. Catching whiting galore with my sidekick, Edward Duckins (a friendly duck who faithfully followed my fishing adventures down south).

And on the 6th of January, Brett and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary with a beautiful breakfast and a week full of other exciting things, like purchasing a new (second hand) car!

 

We have a huge year planned for 2015. Stay tuned for further exciting updates and posts.

Hopefully that was an adequate speedy re-cap!

Please keep me in your prayers, this journey is not over!

I will leave you with one extra thing. Each new year, our little Stanford family get together and pick a word for the year. Last year my word was "RESTORATION". I believe that happened.
This year I have picked "GROWTH". Grow hair Grow!!!! Ha ha. I'm sure 'growth' can mean many things!

Thanks for reading!

Love Kendy
xx