There’s more to life than cancer … true story

by Heidi Weston // April 11, 2016 // 1 Comment

Just before my surgery last week, my mom, sister, SIL Rachel and our girl babies had a first annual girls’ weekend! Or as Ella liked to call it, a girl party! (We were missing Julie and Madden, but school schedules... Continue reading →

reality

by Heidi Weston // August 24, 2015 // 1 Comment

In The Fellowship of the Ring, the first installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Frodo Baggins muses aloud with Gandalf about how he wishes the One Ring had not come to him. “I wish it need not have happened in my... Continue reading →

my family

by Heidi Weston // August 18, 2015 // No Comments

Here. These ones. Here is why I fight. Do you know them? The tall bearded one is Caleb, mountain man, love of my life. Blue dress is Josephine, firstborn, kindergartener, passionate. Age 6. Yellow sweater is Eowyn, or Wynnie, mischievous,... Continue reading →

radiology oncology

by Heidi Weston // August 17, 2015 // 3 Comments

So today I had my most informative doctor’s appointment yet. I got to meet with a doctor of radiology oncology, a fancy name for a cancer doctor who will make me glow as he attempts to shrink a legion on... Continue reading →

We Can’t Do it Alone

by Heidi Weston // August 15, 2015 // 10 Comments

So, one day I’m fine, skipping along as well as I can with my bad back and sciatic pain, laughing and giggling with my children, eating ice cream on hot days, holding hands with my husband, having a lovely carefree summer, an amazing Colorado... Continue reading →