Picture Blog

Here are pictures of my journey: (chronologically not so hot as this awful blog provider sucks!! pics kept landing out of order)

These are dog shots first that represent my life from last fall 2010 through to end of April when my dad died and I found my lump.

Baxter! Get up and go to daycare

"I am only a baby," says Eiger

jaida and bernie snuggle at hme

ari gold who is brave and bold and never cold, baxter's best friend

soaking wet chris on a weekend walk with me (taking pic) and all the dogs bobbi and sasha, and behind them eiger and dexter, and behind them bucky, poirot and simba miserable hike in Conroy Pit

dex on his birthday, courtesy of his mom

dexter and his friend

what jaida and bernie do at home together

"twin" ari and baxter first meet last fall 2010 on deck

what emma and ruby do after trying to kill each other all day

simba's sweet baby look

besties for life: sasha and jaida

jaida in our baseball cap

i has a simba girlfriend on the side don't tell jaida

sweet beckham at bruce pit

bobbi being tortured into wearing a girly bow

duke: the king of the ball

eiger very sleepy...as the devil for halloween

bucky sayin "this is undignified" halloween 2010

dave's soft spot is for tulip

bucky, dozer, and bobbi

abby and dave with tulip in coat and poirot behind

tulip right after she got a new pink coat

April Before My Dad died near the end of April: 
 shannon tweed whom we hung out with at the Genies when I won a small screenwriting award of going there

.Dave, Elaine, my cowriter, Me, and my brother, Barry at the Genies April, 2011, then below it dave, me, the director Denis Villeneuve who took all the awards that night and a politician from Manitoba

June

view from the hilton, courtesy of bill mclean, right before i had mastectomy. look at the hair.

me the weekend before mastectomy when i still had hair

bill's gift to us, look at the hilton pool from hotel room!

Relaxing before swimming at the Hilton before surgery

dave enjoying wine at hilton courtesy of bill

dave and i toast bill and sasha from hilton right before mastectomy

My sister, Elizabeth right after a 10K race in Ottawa while she was here for my testing for cancer, end of April, after my Dad's funeral

sasha, bill mclean's dog and me right before chemo

simba, sasha, and poirot

me completely asleep in chris and mike's guestroom with sasha asleep on pillow and simba looking at camera

sash, sim, and poirot and me in chris and mike's guestroom

 July and August

courtenay and christine at bluesfest where we saw john fogarty

buesfest,  jordan and dawn's treat Tragically Hip

courtenay at bluesfest

me, courtenay, and chris at bluesfest with mike taking pic, right before hairloss

me and chris at bluesfest

bluesfest summer sunset

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at cottage after chemo with beloved simba

chemo one, then chris and mike take me to the cottage. photo by mike

Mikey at cottage

halfway thru head shave from dave. note the gray roots!

eiger pwetty in my wig

first time in park after going bald prior to second chemo. simba feeling sorry for me

dogs seeing me bald for first timepwetty eiger in my wig