My Survivor Tattoo is growing

With moving and, well just life, I'm a little late adding to my survivor tattoo. I should have added butterfly #6 in May, but better late than never, lol.  For those of you who are new, or may have forgotten, the chinese symbol means "to live" or "to survive", then I'm adding a butterfly each year.



Butterfly #5 has a 5 in it (Thanx again Leeanne for designing it!), it's also bigger than the rest because I was given about a 20% chance of living to see that butterfly, so I really celebrated, lol.  However #5 seemed to be out there dangling alone, so we took care of that this year.   We added a lazy path which I think really helps him connect more.  I have the path made out of semicolons ; because I'm a semicolon, lol. :)

I decided to turn my survivor tattoo into a travel bug on geocaching.com so we added the tracking code for that.



Tada - butterfly #6, pooping out star #9 - the stars represent how many years Dennis and I have been married. :)  This butterfly is back to the smaller size - he's a smidge bigger than my pinkie nail.  They all look a little messy right now, they're really fresh. :)

The 4th butterfly

When you're told T3N2M0 in connection with a cancer diagnosis you get scared, well, once you figure out exactly what that means you get scared.  When you read that this scoring means you have a 20-30% chance of being alive in 5 years you get determined!  And when you are sitting in that chair getting butterfly #4 on your survivor tattoo project you begin to truly have hope!  Today is the 1st day of the last year working towards that big 5 and I'm going to beat those odds!

~ You can see the explanation behind this project by going here or see the all posts in this category by going here. ~