Video of the last week of Chemotheraphy

(VIDEO at the end)

This past week has been one emotional week. We had so many experiences and we felt so much love from everyone, I can seriously say that I can almost touch the love that everyone is giving us, so many prayers, and so much love that we can’t even explain it…

This last week was Andy’s last week of chemotherapy, even though we know this doesn’t mean he is CANCER FREE this was such a Victory… the Doctor talked to us and he explained to us that the regimen that Andy was on is one of the most aggressive and strongest ones that they have out there; I mean 5 days a week 8 hours a day every three weeks for four cycles? I am so proud of Andy. He really was in so much pain, so much nausea, tired, horrible pain after his shot and such an emotional experience that I feel so lucky to have him as my husband. He truly is an example for me, such a  fighter…

In this almost four months since we went to the cancer center, we have met so many people and we were the first ones of of arriving there and the last ones to leave and in all of those days we never, ever saw - not even one person - doing the same regimen that he was doing…

Having an eleven cm tumor and two 4cm tumors in the lymph nodes is a pretty scary thing but today we got to go to the Cancer center and they gave us the wonderful news that Andy’s tumor markers levels are way down, he started at 8000 when the normal is 0 to 8, last time they checked he was at 900 and today he is at 32!! Still higher than where they want him to be, but his body is responding so good that we are just enjoying this moment. They are going to test him once a week because the Doctor said that even that he is done with the treatments the levels will continue to go down because all of the chemo that is still in his body.  It will still take some time for him to feel back to normal. After this they are going to check him once a week and see how the tumor markers are doing and then after that he will have another PET scan to see if the tumor is smaller than 3cm and also to see if there are not active cells of cancer…

Whatever the future holds whatever is next, we are so excited this experience has been one of the most amazing things that has ever happened to us.  I  feel so lucky and so blessed for the opportunity that I had to live this and to become a better person… I still remember on the last day of the year 2013 I was complaining and saying that I was not ready and that I couldn’t wait until the end of March and now I am here and I can tell you how lucky I am.  I have became closer to my husband.  He truly is an amazing man and he is my best friend.  we have had the chance to spent to much time together.  We have talked more than we ever talked before, we laughed and cried together, we had the chance to have tons of dates at the cancer center J  We got the opportunity to feel the Spirit on a daily basis.  We have felt and feel so close to our Heavenly Father that I swear I would do it all over again…

I learned so many things in the past few months.  I had the chance to get closer to my extended family and I learned that to love someone doesn’t mean you have to agree with everything that they do or say.  You just love someone for who they are. I also gave myself the opportunity to forgive and to ask of forgiveness, I am still not perfect but I do see myself both before Andy’s Cancer and after. I learned to appreciate my family more than ever before, the love of my sister, my dad, my mom and my brother.  They never left me not even for a minute- always there.  Everything was good, if I had a complaint, it would be all of those new wrinkles that I have around my eyes now.  LOL

I have recorded what I could get of his last week of chemo and I am so glad that I did. I put this small video together and I went back today and watched it.  I hope my kids, one day, can go back and see how much their daddy loves them - enough to fight against this Cancer thing, enough to always have a smile for them…   When I was watching this video I kept laughing because if you don’t know Andy, you are going to say, "man, he is grumpy he is always mad."  But Andy is such a sarcastic person, every single comment that he made, made me laugh because I know he says it in a sarcastic way and I love it…

Today is my birthday, I am 31, my little boy was asking me what I wanted for my birthday and I said that all I want was to spend the day with you, your sister and daddy.  That’s truly all I want.. and it has been amazing.  I woke up and Skyped with my mom and sister while my kids and Andy sang happy birthday in Spanish to me ( las mananitas).  And even though Andy was so tired and feels so sick, he woke up at 6am to make breakfast for me.  He wrote me a note that  I will treasure forever, as I told him this has been the best birthday of my life… I am a lucky woman!

I love my husband and I hope that when you see this video you can feel and see how much this guy suffered.  He fell a few times and he always got up, and the most important thing he never gave    up and he never will.

Here is the link in case you can't open it from here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Y9OXschX0