{"id":230,"date":"2009-05-04T22:34:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T04:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.com\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2009-05-04T22:34:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T04:34:16","slug":"update-almost-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/04\/update-almost-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Update &#8211; Almost a year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a couple weeks it will be Serenity&#8217;s one year anniversary as a Cancer Survivor!  <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28171328@N07\/3503365352\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3631\/3503365352_8b4c636963.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve updated the site, things have been going so well lately that there hasn&#8217;t been much interesting to blog about.  Currently Serenity is a happy, healthy, enthusiastic almost 3 year old with a huge love of life!  We&#8217;ve recently moved even farther out in the &#8220;country&#8221; to a great place on 50 acres with lots of animals and room to play.  She plays outside so much lately that she already has a tan that most people would envy!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28171328@N07\/3503370802\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phil801.com\/imgstore\/seren.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>She is SO PROUD of all her new hair!  She loves to style it to make a little unicorn horn out of her bangs.  At the same time she really wants to be like Daddy and thinks she should still have her head shaved.  Every time I shave my head she begs me to shave hers.  \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nAfter almost a year of regularly taking chemo, and considering how difficult it was a year ago to get her to take it, she is a real trooper about taking her meds.  She still has to take several medications each day, depending on the day of the week.  Every night I wake her up at midnight to give her her chemo.  I just slip the syringe in the corner of her mouth and she either sucks it down or takes it from me and gives it to herself.  It&#8217;s so nice to have her just take it now and not have to fight over it.  Cancer sucks but having made it a year it&#8217;s become fairly routine.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28171328@N07\/3502567683\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3387\/3502567683_87cac0e1aa.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a couple weeks it will be Serenity&#8217;s one year anniversary as a Cancer Survivor! It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve updated the site, things have been going so well lately that there hasn&#8217;t been much interesting to blog about. Currently Serenity is a happy, healthy, enthusiastic almost 3 year old with a huge love &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/04\/update-almost-a-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update &#8211; Almost a year!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}