http://clergygirl.wordpress.com wife, mom, pastor, natural childbirth educator and inflammatory breast cancer challenged.... Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:53:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OK Ladies! Come celebrate with me. Womanhood, breasts and being cancer free. If you're around the Kalamazoo area and free on Saturday night, July 26th, I would LOVE for you to join me at Dawn Maynards house. She lives in Lawton at 29782 Shaw Road. ... http://clergygirl.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/bye-bye-boob-ta-ta-to-my-ta-ta-party/ The girls went to camp a day ahead of us. When we arrived the girls introduced me to their new friends. Charis said "this is our mommy....she has cancer." Meleah quickly followed with "the doctors are going to cut her na-na off with scissors." I was ... http://clergygirl.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/good-bye-na-na/ I'm blessed and I know it.  God is a gracious God and I am proof.  I'm going to be honest with you as to WHY I am blessed, and it's not because I have recently been told my cancer is gone.  It actually has nothing to do with having or not ... http://clergygirl.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/blessed/ One of the first things I did when a doctor said "Maybe" with "Inflammatory Breast Cancer" was to get on-line and start reading.  When I didn't know for sure, Jeremy would get mad at me...."get off the computer," he would say.  But I read enough to be pretty scared.  IBC ... http://clergygirl.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/dont-ignore-it/ I've been traveling about cyberspace a lot since my diagnosis.  Toddler planet introduced me to the world of blogging and sharing my journey....and well....I'm getting addicted.  I can't tell you why it's so therapeutic to write but for some reason it just is.  There have been times over the past five ... http://clergygirl.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/blogging/ Jeremy and I met with my surgeon, Dr. Kalinowski yesterday. It seemed like another affirmation that my healing might be a bit of a miracle. She rounded up my first MRI and my latest one and we needed some clarification so she called Dr. Jacobs the radiologist. ... http://clergygirl.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/surgery/ I can't think of a more appropriate time to find out you're free of cancer than Independance Day.  Watching the fireworks on Friday was extra special.  I held Elijah in my arms and thought....we're going to have a lot more of these together.  When I got the news from my ... http://clergygirl.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/i-am-free/ Never has a word meant so much! Psalm 103:2-3 (The Message) 1-2 O my soul, bless God. From head to toe, I'll bless his holy name! O my soul, bless God, don't forget a single blessing! 3-5 He forgives ... http://clergygirl.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/resolved/ After days of harassing the cancer center for my results one of my nurses called. She said...."I'm probably not supposed to do this, but the results were so good." Anyway....I will get full details tomorrow when I meet with Dr. Liepman but two cysts in my right breast ... http://clergygirl.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/want-to-know-a-secret/ After walking for 2 miles around the track, and the bags were completely set up, we finally found my bag:) I am so touched that people who have lost loved ones or been affected by cancer would care enough to walk (raise money) for me and my cure (as ... http://clergygirl.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/relay-for-life/