Ohh so yummy.....My daughter brought me some blueberries from Costco today and they're soooo good. I can finish the whole box by myself...and it's good for my chemo so I kept eating.....and eat some more......When I buy fruits, I gotta taste them first before buying. My kids are always telling me not to do it, but what if it's not good and sour. Except for melons and likes...you really can't open it, but the berries and grapes, well......

Anyhoo, my son worked with the U2 concert crew and helped built the stage. He was in the VIP section during the concert. Around 8pm he called me to let me know the the place was packed....After the concert he called me again,...just to let me know he recognised some of the songs. I was thinking, geeeesss, a lot of people wanted to be there that night...and he doesn't know the group......Oh well, he did enjoy it, and work afterwards....

Been sick the last few days....I thought I was done with it but I guess not....talk to all of you soon....

 

Had chemo today....My friend was there with her husband who has cancer....Last time I saw them it was his very first chemo. I was surprised to see them there but noticed right away that he's sick. He looked sick and weak...I found out that he just got out of the hospital.....he looks better today....

My friend was holding her binder as usual with all his health information. Just so happen we have the same oncologist....Just the other day I heard another friend got diagnosed with cancer........What's up with this cancer???  Before I got sick, I never heard of any of my friends or know people who has cancer....but now it seems everybody has one.......not a good thing at all......

I feel good so far......let's hope it stays that way...

So my son got this part time job building sets for a U2 concert. They're coming  May 21st to Colorado for a concert and my son was one of maybe 150????people building the stage and covering the ground at Invesco Field. His shift started at 2:00am to 2pm..It was freezing cold but he said the work was so heavy, he removed his jacket within minutes of getting there..Of course everybody's asking him "aren't you cold?". He said people were asking him all the time that he started counting after the fifth person...all in all 27.....The good thing about this job is, they actually provide all the food for their employees and you can get seconds as long as you're in your break...that makes my son happy....They employ so many people building diff things at the same time that they have a cook and helpers feeding people at diff times. My son was in a team covering the ground with wood planks so it's protected from the concert chaos....He came home after 12 hour shifts barely walking....literally.....his hands swollen, hips hurting and ready to sleep for the next 12 hours..

Who knew there's so much work to do a concert..You can imagine these people riding to another city and starting all over again....hiring locals to do most of the work. My son wants to go with them..a roadie he says....a Bono roadie....but after last night he's rethinking that one.....work again tomorrow.....we'll see after that. After all May 21st is still a week away...

So I"ve been away for a long time.....I got sick.....with cancer.

I have to tell you guys..don't ever get sick with cancer...it's not fun at all...It's funny how this things work....you get diagnosed then other things starts to come out..you're wondering how did that happen?...one day you're fine, the next day you're not.

I was diagnosed june of last year. I was out of the country March and April...I was fine then...when I got back, there was a letter reminding me to make an appointment for my yearly check-up....I did....and that was the start of my many visits to doctors and hospitals.....after they called me the third time, my husband decided to come with me...they said they just want to make sure so they want me to do this and that....just to make sure you know....I knew then something was up, and nobody's saying anything...my husband said no, everything's ok....I guess he was in denial. Around last week of June the doctor called me up, asking me to sit down.....stage 3 and very aggressive...so I started chemo right away.....

Today is a good day...I still have chemo till September and surgeries coming up...but hey I'm up and not feeling dizzy or faint....even went out for coffee yesterday with my friend Ana....Let's hope for more good days to come......

 

My friend dalia's baby was baptised last sunday. It was great seeing a lot of pinays that i haven't seen for a while and Dalia and a bunch of girls cooked a lot of pilipino foods. As expected, we ate a lot and what's so great about it was, talking and laughing with the girls about anything and everything. Too bad some people didn't make it. Our husbands were there too, so they had their own group in one corner and i'm sure wondering what the heck we were talking about. I always wonder how we sounded to them. Poor guys, they had to listen to a lot of gigglings from us girls. I have to say though that these guys are very accommodating to their women and goes wherever we go. Thanks Dalia to a wonderful party and great food. Hi Von......................

My youngest son is sick. He's been out of school since tuesday with a 101.5 fever. My husband was sick the whole weekend so i think he gave it to him. Since my son is only 9 yrs old, it is harder for him and he's such a baby when he gets sick. He wants me all the time and won't let me go anywhere but with him. I'm the kind of person that's always doing something and moving around so it's hard for me to lie down all day long doing nothing. Ohhh gotta go, i can hear him calling me again........

Sorry, i wasn't able to do anything else but rest. When we got back, I had so many appointments that i'm still tired a week after our trip. Anyway, the very next day of our 2 day trip to Disneyland, we went to universal Studios. By this time i can barely walk, but i noticed that as soon as you start walking around you forget that you're tired and then you get into this mood of having fun again. You realized you're in there to have fun so i was ready for the day gain. The first thing we did was the Tram ride of course. There's so many new thing they added to that ride that it lasted for almost an hour to finish the whole thing. There were some areas that they closed off because a shooting was going on. Westeria Lane of desperate housewife was closed. It's actually fun watching other people from diff Countries react to this tour. People around you speaks so many languages and it's facisnating. Well after that, we had to go to Jurrasic park ride right away. Wait for the ride was only 5 minutes so we went through it like lightning.....until the drop............Did i tell you there was a big drop at the end of the ride? I knew that from experince before but somehow i allowed them to convinced me again to take this ride with them. I have pictures to show  how scared i was with that drop. Never again.....Well, the animal show was hilarious, my son was laughing so hard my husband and I just watched him the whole time and we were laughing AT HIM and not so much of the show. And of course The Waterworld never fails. It was as fun as ever especially when they start pouring water at people. It was a long show but half of it was entertaining the audience by the actors themselves. At the end of the day, i was reminded again how tired i was and Ohh, when we left Universal Studios that day we drove another hour to met up with our firends and their kids for dinner. My son and i were asleep before we hit the freeway. Poor husband had to drive for us. After dinner, we drove back to las Vegas and got there around one o'clock in the morning and slept the whole day...i think.....

So went went back the next day. Our hotel was walking distance from disney so we left a little early to get there before ten o'clock, when the park opens, but when we got there the line was already long and in fact, they started letting people in before ten. Oh well, we figured we can still get as much ride as we hoped. We decided to checked out California Adventure first since we've never been there. It's right next door and their newest park. Most of the rides there are for adults but my son found this water ride The Grizzly Bear(??) really amazing, his word, so he went back there over and over again and got so wet in the process. I didn't go to any of them cause i'm a wimp when it comes to rides. I let them two go everywhere and i followed them around. Yeah, that's what i thought, what a way to go to a park.......

So off we went to the other side again, The Disney park and hooked up with our son's classmate and his mom and brother and one of the teachers in our son's school. what do you know???? before we left Colorado, we all found out we were all going to California and Disneyland at the same day so we decided to meet up there and we did. What a fine day to really get to know each other and the kids we're all having fun. We pretty much let them decide what ride to go to and what to do next. But the adults were able to get a few rides here and there. A good thing we already went to the park the day before and stayed till closing time which was 12 midnight  so we pretty much did a lot of things. One lucky thing we did the night before was Indiana Jones ride. We did it a few times and we found out the next day that the ride was closed for the day so a lot of people were disappointed. By this time, our feet was killing us but still, we're not going anywhere until the park closed. And ohhhhh, did i tell you we're going to Universal Studios the next day???????? Till then.......................

We had our first day at Disneyland yesterday and it was awesome. The park was open till midnight so of course we had to stay till midnight. The parade started at 6:30 then the fireworks and then the water show that used to be Fantasia. I've been to disneyland so many times from my oldest daughter  who's 23 years old now, to my son who's 17 and now my 9 year old, but i never get tired watching the water show. Now they added new characters like Toy Stories and it never fails to amazed me..... oh... gotta go.... we're going back to Disneyland again....tell you more later.............