Living a Blessed Life

  Hello again! If that title doesn't pique your interest in this post, I don't know what will. Haha! I know that genetics can be very confusing, but I find them fascinating, and hopefully you will gain an appreciating for the role genetics play in our lives by the time you finish reading.  Maybe it is just me, but the overarching question one finds themselves with when diagnosed with cancer or a different life-threatening illness is, WHY ? Then it's, WHAT caused this and could it have been prevented? (Side note - it doesn't even matter if it could have been prevented because here we are. It's too late to look at prevention and spiral into the realm of the unknowns and unchangeable. This question is only necessary in order to look at helping others with prevention.) Finally, WHAT can I do to heal and keep this from recurring or spreading? After my surgery was completed and the cancer I had was staged, I was given the option to do genetic testing. Backing up a moment...

I can hardly believe it is almost fall! The weather this week has shocked me into that reality and I am finally embracing it. Much to the dismay of Darek, I turned the furnace on yesterday. It was 66 degrees in the house, and I was working from our basement office which is even colder! Brrr! I will add that I did wear my slippers and a sweater, and eventually wrapped a blanket around my legs to keep warm before I finally caved. My heated seat and heated steering wheel came in very handy, as I waited in the pick up line for the kids at school! The day prior, I thought I would simply use the space heater in our office and that would be sufficient for the day. It was sufficient, until it blew the circuit breaker, and I quickly decided that I was not about to do that all fall. Haha!  ANYHOW... I spend a lot of time in thought these days. I used to let my mind run wild with so many things of no importance whatsoever. I am now working very hard to intentionally think on things that matte...