{"id":8092,"date":"2012-06-04T22:39:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T03:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=8092"},"modified":"2012-06-04T22:39:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T03:39:53","slug":"agesthirteen-and-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=8092","title":{"rendered":"AgesThirteen and Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I started Tamoxifen.<\/a><\/p>\n

Honestly I only started today because tomorrow I’ll see Dr. Butler, my Oncologist, and I’m afraid of what he’ll say when I tell him I’ve only taken it for two days.\u00a0 He wrote my prescription a couple of weeks before my radiation treatments ended (back in April) and told me to begin the day after my last treatment.\u00a0 I really don’t have a great reason for postponing it.<\/p>\n

I just did.<\/p>\n

I guess, for the first time since last August, I didn’t have a treatment, medicine, or anything having to do with cancer on the docket and it felt nice not to worry about it.\u00a0 I’ve never been much of a medicine taker, but I guess that will have to change. MC takes two different seizure meds three times a day, and an asprin everyday, and this week<\/em>:\u00a0 an antibiotic for sinus infection, nasal spray and eye ointment\u00a0 4 times a day.\u00a0 So why not throw in a little anti-hormone pill for me.<\/p>\n

I have to take it everyday for the next 5 years.<\/p>\n

When I complete my Tamoxifen, McCanless will be thirteen and Mary Clare will be ten, which seems like an eternity away.<\/p>\n

Five years ago, I was nine months pregnant with Mary Clare and would soon begin\u00a0 one of the most amazing experiences of my life.\u00a0 I had no idea how much joy and pain her presence would bring.\u00a0 Tonight, as I was in the kitchen, she clamored in on a pair of McCanless’s hand-me-down pink and purple skates two sizes too big, a green leotard, and hot pink Halloween gel in her hair as she ate a banana.<\/p>\n

How different life would be without my tiny miracle.<\/p>\n

How amazing the last five years have been.<\/p>\n

So, cheers to the next five. I can’t wait to see what they have in store for us!\u00a0 Bring on the Tamoxifen, hot flashes and all!<\/p>\n

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