To hear those words

This isn't the first time that I have heard these words. I first heard them when my sister called me about 25 years ago and told me she had.... Cancer. She has had it all over her body and been diagnosed terminal like 3 times. The last time she was told that, her "expiration" date was December 2011. It is now December 2012 and she is still here and hopefully not going anywhere for a very long time. More recently, a friend had breast cancer. After a double mastectomy and a few more years of battling, she passed away in June 2012. I know that cancer can take a life or just be a bump in the road of life, but it doesn't hit home as much as when it is your very own spouse. 

My husband had a doctor's appointment the end of September for what he thought was a hemorrhoid. It only turned out to be a fissure but while in his office, the doctor saw something, took a biopsy and asked to see both of us in his office. It was at that time that he said that based on all of his years of experience, that it looked like cancer. After blood tests, scans, and a colonoscopy they did surgery to remove 10" of colon and the lymph nodes around it. Two weeks later we get the news.... Stage 3 colon cancer... technically T3N1. Yep it got into one of the lymph nodes. He is going to start chemo the beginning of December. The oncologist says Folfox. My husband has been doing alot of research about the treatment and we have been preparing for the unknown.

Now the real adventure begins.... You see, we had been on the road traveling in a travel trailer full time for the last 18 months. We were in Orange, CA when he was diagnosed. We decided to move back home to Las Vegas (actually Henderson), NV and rent an apartment to have a little more room. Got all moved in and are ready to start our new life.