Melinda Marchiano

No hypermetabolic activity!!! In other words, the PET scan I received yesterday showed no return of cancer. I am grateful beyond words can describe and I pray that with each passing year, I can become even more thankful that nothing has returned. Yesterday was a busy (and exhausting) day at Cottage Hospital, with an echocardiogram, pulminary function test, CT/PET scan, and blood test and check-up at the clinic. Had to drink that lovely (NOT!) oral contrast that is mentioned in one of my excerpts, got a radioactive sugar compound injected, and dye put in me…yeah…felt a little polluted and sick afterward. Oh well. The good news is definitely worth it. The book. I’m a writing machine these days. I am a good two-thirds done and getting closer any day. Just wrote a really funny part…I think you’re gonna love it. That’s all for now! I apologize for my lack-of-posts lately! Look out for new excerpts!

I’m so exctied!  School is out for the summer!  That means I get to write and dance and write some more and dance some more!  YES!  Heaven!  Had a great day at dance today.  I’m starting to get a lot stronger.  Oh……almost forgot!  I auditioned for the San Luis Obispo Civic Ballet a couple of weeks ago and I received the news on Friday that I was accepted!  Wow.  Never would I have imagined even six months ago that I would be dancing with a company.  I am blessed.  I not only LOVE dance from the bottom of my heart but apparently, others think I’m pretty good at it (hahahahaha)…..everyone wins!  I will have more time to update my site now, so look for new stuff! 

I’ve been really busy writing and transforming it into book format.  Only two more weeks of school and then I can stop putting aside my book to do trigonometric functions and essays.  I want to tell my teachers, “I just want to write!”  Also today, my birthday, I got some awesome business cards.  Will be passing those babies out… spreading the word a bit.  Look for more new and exciting things coming!

Hey everyone!

  I have a new site!  It’s WAAAAAAYYYYY cool!  Check it out here!  You can find it under my last name dot net.

Hey!  I had my school dance show yesterday………..I was in eleven dances!  It was so much fun, but today, I am pretty much in a coma and can’t move.  But it was TOTALLY worth it!  After my show, I had about three or four people come up to me and tell me that I was “an incredible dancer”.  One very nice girl told me, “I know you don’t know me, but I just HAVE to tell you how amazing you are…….I mean, REALLY.  Everything, EVERYTHING was so incredible.  You are AMAZING.  I just saw you walking out and said ‘oh my gosh!  I have to tell her’!”

Pretty nice of her, huh?  It really meant a lot to me.  I love dance so much and didn’t freak out trying to be all perfect and not forget stuff or anything………I just let the music carry me through the show and displayed my love of dance! 

Keepin’ the writing up.  I just finished a section on one of our friends, Casey, and how he visited me.  It was fun to write because it literally flowed out of my heart and I didn’t even need to think.  When your soul writes, and not your mind, it’s a beautiful thing.

Hey!

Been SUPER busy!  School, dance, writing!  Have a dance show tomorrow and I’m going to be dancing for pretty much 12 hours!  Heaven.  I have a surprise for all of you that I’m going to tell you soon!  HATE to leave you wondering!  Oh, well!

Hey everyone!

LOVE my messages!  Thanks!  Wrote a lot today…….mostly about my second round of chemo.  TONS to write about.  I could make a book out of each day these past two years.  But then, Iwould be probably 100 (or dead) by the time I finished!  So I’ll squish it into one for ya, k?  Take care everyone!  Happy Mommy’s Day!

It is the one year anniversary of my end of treatment tomorow!  Cancer free for a year……life is good.  I am blessed beyond belief.  Gonna have to celebrate somehow! 🙂  Thanks for all of your support!