Catherine's Bridal Photos at Nottoway

Engagement Picture

Corey and Catherine in one of their engagement photos. The photographer we used was Roy Pino. He was terrific. It was FREEZING that day and the wind was blowing but he managed to take a few good ones.

Catherine's Engagement Party 1/2010

Trying to catch up and work more on this blog. This picture was taken at Catherine and Corey's engagement party. It was given by Corey's Aunts and Uncles. In this picture are Mike , me, Catherine, Corey, Kelly (Corey's mom), Ted (Corey's dad).
Catherine became engaged to Corey Gill in July of 2009. He surprised her while we were eating out at a local restaurant. It was great!

TJ is Growing!

Well, TJ is getting bigger by the day! He looks more and more like a little boy and not just a baby. Theresa says he's hungry all the time and she's thinking about starting him on a little cereal at night. I believe that I started all of mine on cereal at two months but now everyone says to wait until six months. I don't know about that. Anyway, here a few new pictures of him.

New Grandson

Well, I'm finally a grandma! I am officially 'Mamee'. Thane Michael DeLaune, Jr. was born at 9:03 p.m. 11/11/09 (Veteran's Day). He weighed 7 lbs. 6 oz. and was 19 inches long.

He is beautiful and so far pretty good. Here are some pictures.

Cancer is Complicated

Yesterday, I finally went to the orthopedic doctor. He confirmed what I already figured out, that I have 'trigger finger'. I told him I am convinced it's caused from the Femara. He wasn't too sure at first but I told him about other people on different breast cancer forums who take Femara (or other arimatose inhibitors (sp?) and some of them have the same problem. So, he put it in his notes and hopefully, this will help someone else.

He gave me an injection (cortisone) and said to wait about a month to see if it has helped any. If not, he may perform a minor surgery.

My daughter who works at Brown-Rogers Physical Therapy, thinks I should go in to get a splint and that would help enough so that I wouldn't need surgery. I think everybody here just thinks that I enjoy surgeries!.....

If I hadn't had the stupid cancer, I wouldn't have needed the mastectomy and reconstruction surgery and I wouldn't have needed the hysterectomy and I would not have gotten this crappy trigger finger!!!!

Oh, by the way, the good news is oldest daughter might be going into the hospital to have the baby tomorrow!!!!! That makes everything GREAT no matter what cancer tries to do.

Did All I Can Do For Now... I think....

Well, I have survived my double mastectomy with reconstruction and my hysterectomy. I am finally beginning to think that things will be normal again. I am not spending all my time looking up everything possible about breast and ovarian cancer. Instead, I'm probably spending too much time on Facebook. I shouldn't have started playing Farmville; that led to the Cafe game which led to Yoville. I need to get away from those.

I am getting more excited about the baby and Catherine's wedding. We have scheduled to meet with the flower people and a photographer this week. I need to look for a dress (oh boy!). That should be interesting.

Theresa is still hanging in there. Her husband is still in Africa; he was supposed to be home on Saturday but someone was delayed in getting his updated visa and passport to him so he should be home Wed. or Thurs. She's pretty upset but okay. I can't wait until he gets home.