W&C's Wedding

I had the pleasure to attend my good friends Whitney & Chris wedding this past weekend. They had a beautiful wedding and the weather turned out great.
Here's a few pictures from the event.

The beautiful bride and groom 

The reception area. The most beautiful barn I've ever seen ;)

The ceremony-Looked like it was from the secret garden.

Whitney and I chatting to Kev.

My Stud and I!

My handsome Kev

Kev snapping pics of me at the reception. 

Bachlorette Party, NY State Track Meet, A Kids Cancer Run

My good friend from work Whitney had her bachlortette party. We went horseback riding and out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant. This was my second time riding a horse. Boy was I terrified. They really didn't do a good job of ya know telling us the basics. Like how to stop a horse, make it go, or even ride it especially when your horse decides to trot because anyone who has rode a trot knows that is not easy when you have never done that before.

So needless to say I got on my horse named Midas whom according to the stable workers was gay so I didn't have to worry about my horse getting too close to the females, PERFECT. One less thing I had to worry about. So we start going and BAM my horse starts trotting I was like oh nelly how in the world do I stop this thing... Ummm Hello? How do I stop my horse I don't like this. Anyone who knows me knows I was in Alyssa panic mode. So anyways guy comes to the rescue tells me how to stop my horse and life is great again nice and slow no trotting I'm good. Everyone says "You grew up on a farm why are you in such fear?" Well just because I grew up on a farm does not mean I loved it and embarrass it. I ran from it every chance I got sooooo this explains my fear. Anyways after being told how to ride the trot I began to like it and enjoyed the horse ride. Towards the end all I wanted was my horse to trot because we were moving so slow and our trail blazer "Literally" didn't stop yapping with her annoying barking voice it was like shit get me off this trail. But regardless I had a great time and really enjoyed my adult horseback riding experience.

We went to Whitney's house and took a dip in the pool to cool off before dinner because it was a very hot day. Then off to eat some guac and drink some margs. It was nice to cool off with a nice frozen margarita or should a say several.


My sister Anna is a super fast runner and made it to the New York State Track Meet with her 4x800 team. I was so excited to find out the meet was only 1 hour+ from me so I had to go cheer her on. Luckily my other sister Theresa got to go as their back up so I got to see two of my sisters. Super stoked to be able to go see her run at a once and a lifetime event and of course see their beautiful faces.


I ran a kids cancer run with my friend Sam. It was a 5k and I was happy to be able to go support a great event. I hope to be able to get out and run more events as the months go by and get back into running like I use to be.


I'll add pictures later, I write this on the train to work every morning and its hard to add pictures from my phone I need to do it from a computer.

Cancer Free- Yupp I said it

I went to my follow up appointments the other day with my endo at Sloan Kettering and heard the best news a cancer patient could hear. The cancer is undetectable, they can no longer find it in my blood steam. I go back in February of 2014 for another set of follow up test to make sure that it is still the same. But to know my levels went from 180 pre surgery to 60 after surgery to 14 after my treatment and 12 being "normal" levels. I think I am doing quite well and I feel like a whole new person. I still cannot believe the transformation from a year ago with the mess I was dealing with DAILY! I'm so thankful I didn't give up on the fact that something just wasn't right and that there was something truly wrong with me.

I also had my follow up appointment with my surgeon. I was so happy to see him. I am just ever so thankful for such an amazing and brilliant doctor he is. He scoped me to take pictures of my vocal cords to see how things are doing and said all is well. They are back to 100% and you can't tell from the inside or even listening to me talk that he had damaged them to peel the cancer off it. Anywho, said my scar looks fabulous HOLLAR, worked really hard to keep SPF on it at all times and still do. Not to mention his lovely tips with the silicone gel sheeting are I'm sure why it also looks so great. He went over my ultrasound with me and said that there is one abnormal lymph node on my left side. (Most the cancer was on the right side of my neck and that is where he went in and clearered house on the lymph nodes as well.) He said that it could be because it was cancerous and the treatment I had got rid of it and it now looks abonormal and forever will on the ultrasound or it's just simply abnormal. He said lots of thing went inside my neck and lymph nodes and look abnormal on scans afterwards. But he said not to worry things looks great and the fact that my numbers have come down so far they are not worried one bit. He showed me where to feel for the lymph node every now n then and if something changes to call him. But for now I live life cancer free and happily. I'll return in Februray for follow up test and they will monitor my lymph node. 

Looking back it's been exactly one long year since this all started. I don't even want to count the number of Drs appointments I've been too. All I can say is I'm ever so thankful this day finally came. A huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. 

This is me celebrating the 4th of July and also celebrating my good news of being cancer free. 

I've always wanted this shirt, Now I can officially wear it proud and say FUCK CANCER!