Riane Writes! Welcome to My Life

   Happy Sunday!    Sundays are meant for relaxing, church and being with friends and family before the start of another work week. I, on the other hand, clean my house all day. I have already today gone to the store, put away groceries, split the ridiculous amount of meat into more manageable bags to freeze that I bought at Costco, stopped briefly to have lunch, vacuumed the bedroom, and have a load of clothes in the laundry. I still have to vacuum the rest of the house, clean the kitchen, empty and clean the fridge, dust the house, give my three dogs a bath while they try to escape the evil water, and then clean the bathroom.    I don't relax well on Sundays. Saturdays are my fun day. Yesterday we went to Uwharrie National Park to go off-roading with a few others from the Carolina 4Runners Off-Road Group. There were 6 trucks planning to come even though it was ungodly hot at 9 in the morning. We fueled up and aired down the tires to prepare for the da...

   It has been so long since I have written a blog post. I think it was sometime in 2015? Don't quote me on that, I can be a little fuzzy when it comes to dates. Let me fill you in on what has happened in my life the past few years.    Hello my name is Riane and I am a brain cancer survivor. (insert the chorus of hi Riane here). I have a stage 3 oliogoastrocytoma tumor and have had two surgeries (one was 1/15/14 and two was 12/18/14), chemotherapy, and radiation to get that sucker to stop growing. All while going through college and receiving my Bachelors in Criminal Justice might I add. Now the downfall is I will never be cancer free, or ever truly in remission. During my second surgery, my neurosurgeon had to leave part of the tumor that was on the middle wall of my brain where it was, fearing that if he removed it I would be disabled. I had no issue with his decision since I was out cold and didn't find out about it until after I came fully out of the drugs. ...