A year ago this month....

Joli had her port-a-cath removed. It seemed like forever ago when she had that port. Even in this picture, she look so small! We waited a full 8 months until after she finished chemotherapy to have her button removed in the event that she needed any additional treatment. I think, at last count, Joli's port had been accessed over 150 times over 14 months -- between chemotherapy, flushing the tubes, blood draws, anesthesia, etc. We went through boxes of band-aids, tubes of .. gosh... I think I actually forgot the name of the "numbing cream." It's amazing how easily I used to be able to rattle off the names of each and every single medication and now, I can barely remember the name of a cream we used over a hundred times.... oh, gosh, seriously, I actually can't remember the name.... weird.