Who Gives Love a Bad Name???

They totally give love a bad name! It has been over a week since we saw Bon Jovi and I am still trying to figure out how we can get to another show! It was that good!

So many people have asked how the concert was, so I thought I would post a few pics we took-not bad for someone who was jumping around the entire time. Really, I was so excited-I was shaking!

I say, you haven't lived until you hear 20,000 people screaming

"Shot through the heart and you're to blame...".

Whew, I am sweating thinking about it...I know I know, I am a crazy fan! Call it like you see it, right?

I want to say thank the good Lord, I feel like a new person! Last week was a pretty low week for me and my family and as soon as I stopped taking Tamoxifen, my life turned around. I know I will need to start my new meds soon and that they will be long term, but I am just so grateful for modern medicine and options. That drug was making me literally crazy and we had to find something just as effective that would give me back my life. I know that there are many unpleasant side effects to taking meds like this one, but these were way outside of the normal range. Rhett and everyone around me said that they have noticed a drastic change and that I almost seem "happy"again. Anyone who knows me and knows me well- last week would have scared the poop out of you-I was a different person and this week I feel like "me" again .I felt like I had a better quality of life while I was doing chemo if that tells you how bad it was...for now, I am going to enjoy "detox" and being somewhat chemical free!

I was blessed to have a great weekend! Worked a very long day out of town Saturday and had great friends and family time on Sunday-it was wonderful!

I having been thinking alot of my sweet Mimi who passed away of lung cancer my senior year of high school. She was such a strong lady and is still a strong presence in my life-I hear her voice and advice all the time. She was a sassy spit fire, who probably weighed 100lbs soaking wet-but she was a force to be reckoned with and was full of life and words of wisdom. I believe she faced alot of challenge in her life, but always with her head held high. This is what I hear often when I am thinking of her. She always said, "My dear, there will always be someone more fortunate than you, and you will always be more fortunate than someone else. You are where are, and it is what it is...change what you can change and learn to accept what you cannot...Live your life true to you and always do the right thing, no matter what". The very last thing she gave me was a bible, which sits on my nightstand-it is the very first thing I see when I get up every morning.

I have been very lucky and blessed to have 2 amazing "class act" Grandmothers in my life. Their words of wisdom mold me and their truth in reality help me document my life as it happens. I know I have one angel here on earth who loves me and prays for me, and one looking down keeping a close eye on me, reminding me to "Live my life true to me..." and that's what I am trying to do.

One day at a time...

Hope you all have a wonderful and blessed week, I am sure to make it a better one over here in our neck of the woods!

Thank you God for the valleys, because the climb to the top is that much sweeter.