This year:
1. I started this blog.
2. My brother and I found out that our diseases are still in remission. In 2013, we hope to make it 8 years of remission!
3. I have made many new friends and have many great memories from 2012!
4. I wrote a memoir about living with Gardner’s Syndrome.
5. I took several classes that have changed my life.
6. This summer, I got a job that I love!
7. I reconnected with friends I haven’t seen since high school.
8. After a life changing church retreat, and some reflection- I want to learn more about my faith and have been working on including God in more aspects of my life.
9. I started working with the F.A.P. Foundation to help create social resources for people whose live shave been touched by hereditary colon cancer diseases (fapfoundation.org).
This year, I am thankful for:
1. God
2. My family
3. My friends
4. The experiences I have had this past year.
5. Remission!
6. My job
7. Being able to go to college.
8. Those people who have helped me with my book.
9. People who have supported my storytelling by reading this blog, following me on Twitter, or liking my blog on Facebook! I really appreciate your support!
10. My new hobby, knitting!
11. The F.A.P Foundation
In 2013 I am looking forward to:
1. Graduating from Western in March!
2. Publishing my memoir (hopefully by February)
3. Continuing to write blog posts
4. Starting a new writing project this January, called From Heartache to Hope.
5. My new hobby, knitting! I am hoping to knit hats for children who are staying at a Children’s Hospital.
My goals for 2013:
1. To exercise at least five days a week.
2. To eat healthier by eating more healthy things and less sweets.
3. To be more outgoing
4. To find a second job, related to nursing.
5. To finish prerequisite classes for a nursing program.
6. To continue to help raise awareness for rare diseases including hereditary colon cancer diseases
7. To start my 8th year of remission
8. To make 2013 even more memorable than 2012.
Great post! I do hope you'll continue to write on your blog. What is your new writing project? Related to your rare disease?
ReplyDeleteThank you! Yes, it is related to my rare disease and other hereditary colon cancer diseases such as FAP Syndrome and Lynch Syndrome. I'm hoping to interview people whose lives have been touched by a hereditary colon cancer disease. I hope that people who have these diseases and their families will be interested in participating in interviews that look at the diagnosis experience, treatments, outlook on life, hopes for future, and the impact their disease has had on their life. It's going to be called From Heartache to Hope, and I'm going to put the interviews into an ebook, and publish it. All of the money from the book will go towards helping continue to build the F.A.P. Foundation.
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