Friday, April 4, 2014
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Number 4 is in the bag. (literally)
Chemo session number four is done! Except I still have the bag stuck in my chest... (Gross, I know) I'll be completely done Saturday morning. Today went well. I love the nurse that takes care of me. Not only is she a great nurse, but she has a great sense of humor, and is just pleasant to talk to... I don't remember if I mentioned it in the last post, and I'm too lazy to go back and look, but she's the one who suggested that I take Prilosec OTC, and a B-complex vitamin. It made such an amazing difference! I'm hoping for a similar result this time around...
My dad came over and watched the kids when they got off the bus until we came home. I know they were really psyched to see him. It was cool that he stayed for dinner, too. I think this is a good time to mention that there's a group of ladies from Benthiem making dinners on the chemo days... I know SEVERAL people have offered to help out, and we have politely declined for now... I am truly astounded by the outpouring of support. There may be a day where we need to cash in some of those offers, but at the moment we doing better than I could have ever imagined! God is good.
I do feel bad about one thing right now... I upset my dad a little today. He had an incredible sense of humor about pretty much everything. He has a joke for every occasion... Except this... I was running through my gambit of cancer jokes, and stories about what I've experienced, and I didn't put much thought into what he might think about this. I am his boy after all. I should have just shut up, but I don't have a very good filter for such things... I can count the number of times I've seen my dad really sad on one hand. In my life. I have to add one more today.
This is probably the worst part of all this. I hate seeing everybody getting sad, or upset by my situation... I'm handling better than some of my friends and family... You wouldn't believe how many people I have to talk off the ledge! I've also gotten a bit of a laugh about how people yell at me for not knowing I had this condition earlier... (If I knew, I would have done something about it!)
Anyway, Things are going pretty good. I'll be tired tomorrow, but if things are like last week, I'll be able to carry on. Thanks for all the support, people. Thanks for the offers of assistance. Thanks for the prayers, and positive thoughts.
Cheers!
My dad came over and watched the kids when they got off the bus until we came home. I know they were really psyched to see him. It was cool that he stayed for dinner, too. I think this is a good time to mention that there's a group of ladies from Benthiem making dinners on the chemo days... I know SEVERAL people have offered to help out, and we have politely declined for now... I am truly astounded by the outpouring of support. There may be a day where we need to cash in some of those offers, but at the moment we doing better than I could have ever imagined! God is good.
I do feel bad about one thing right now... I upset my dad a little today. He had an incredible sense of humor about pretty much everything. He has a joke for every occasion... Except this... I was running through my gambit of cancer jokes, and stories about what I've experienced, and I didn't put much thought into what he might think about this. I am his boy after all. I should have just shut up, but I don't have a very good filter for such things... I can count the number of times I've seen my dad really sad on one hand. In my life. I have to add one more today.
This is probably the worst part of all this. I hate seeing everybody getting sad, or upset by my situation... I'm handling better than some of my friends and family... You wouldn't believe how many people I have to talk off the ledge! I've also gotten a bit of a laugh about how people yell at me for not knowing I had this condition earlier... (If I knew, I would have done something about it!)
Anyway, Things are going pretty good. I'll be tired tomorrow, but if things are like last week, I'll be able to carry on. Thanks for all the support, people. Thanks for the offers of assistance. Thanks for the prayers, and positive thoughts.
Cheers!
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