March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month - Think Blue

Check out all the information - early detection is KEY!  Wear blue on Friday March 6th and schedule your favorite check up...talk with your doctor about early screening before 50!  Also please go to the Lance Armstrong Foundation to see all things about "Living Strong" as a cancer survivor.  

So now that I am living day to day - just like you (ok maybe with a little bit of awareness) there are many new endeavors and desires....

1) Bucking for "The Best Job in the World" - applying certainly has inspired the creative juices!  Click to see and oh i just had to...yeah, I know you only wish you had applied too!  

2) Exploring new career options near and dear to my heart - writing, business development, communications & inspiring others to do something "unforgettable".... see my LinkedIn

3) Going to hang out with Michael, Clayton and Amelia in Austin for a little warmth and SXSW

4) Training for the April 26th More Magazine 1/2 Marathon with Gloria Cruz - Go Girls!  I needed to do something just for myself - we all should.

5) Raising $2MM with my friends for the Northside Town Hall Community & Cultural Center

How are you spending your New Year?  I hope happy, healthy and believing!

xxoxoxoxo

Jen

February and the results are in............

As of February 19th, for today, my body is cancer free and this is how I feel...be playful with your lives - Please! Be grateful for your World...

Keep checking back to see what happens next - many surprises!

Hugs and more hugs

Jen

Time to catch up with "What's Up"

Click on title see a bit of old school to the new school of "wassssup"

Along with billions of others around the whole world, on January 15th, I watched and held my breath with hope. 

I had desperately wanted to go to Washington DC and just be in the presence of one of the most historical moments in American.  I was raised in the generation that followed civil rights - an age still wading through the past and ideas of black and white.  How would it be for a culture with such American history and burden to see one of their own take the highest office of leadership?  As much as this election was unifying and beyond - still a black American was being inaugurated to be President of the United States.  The emotion was going to be palatable and run the gamut.  The weather was freezing and the anticipation warming - a melting away of pain.  

I watched the morning news starting at 4:00 AM and the determination of a country as it found its way to the National Mall.  I drove into New York City and up to Harlem wondering inside with my own emotion, my own history.  Over 3,000 NYC school kids, their teachers and families were descending upon the Harlem Armory for their own inauguration party. 

The breath of history was being let out, and a new mix of life without limitation because of color and culture took its place that day.   I felt we had as a world moved into a place were anything is now possible!  Youth brought this change to us...we should respect that and all we do with this experience and what we will leave for them with a new history.

Joy to the World,

Jen

     

Happy New Year! 2009 rings in New Beginnings....

Here is to new beginnings and the joy of celebration just hours after my last chemotherapy treatment for stage III colon cancer. Diagnosed 6 months ago - miles ago, what feels like years ago and then in reality was only days or and minutes ago. It took me some time to post all of this - just over 30 days. Each day it all sinks in a bit more, and each day my energy comes back and the anxiety finds a way out - in my steps out the front door and into my new life as a cancer survivor! It felt like a bad nightmare - was this real? I go mid February for my first PET scan and will take each one as it comes, every few months to help guide my next steps. Thank you to you all for your support and believing this day would come! Thank you thank you thank you....those are my three things to be grateful for - to be thankful!

Love,

Jen

December 29th - 31st Final Chemo treatment

This is going to be a photomontage of the last minutes of the last treatment of what I hope will be my last moments of cancer!  The next post will also be a montage of celebration that happened only hours after the pump came off...two sides to a wicked and hopeful coin.

Three things to be grateful for:

1) No more chemo

2) All my family and friends

3) The desire for no more cancer