Elliot and Jessica took the boys to a movie. They returned to our house where we all spent the rest of the evening playing outside, eating tasty steak sandwiches for dinner, and talking about whatever. We also snacked on rice pudding. They headed home around 11. It was awesome sauce.
Monday was a good day.
Tuesday:
Valerie and Jacob had their baby. He's a cute little baby. Emily was able to visit them at the hospital for an hour. Emily loves babies. She couldn't be happier about her new nephew.
Emily and I had a nice long visit with Scott Ashby. He brought over the new Dorito tacos from Taco Bell. They taste just as you would expect. I find them to be delicious. Later in the evening Emily made tasty chocolate pudding cake. The conversation was the most honest we've had in a while. I think I've finally convinced him to move to Oregon; I've been working on that for years. I might be kidding about that last sentence.
Tuesday was a good day.
Wednesday:
So, I'm finally getting a post written today. Here at home it is much more difficult to find the time to write a post. I'm so busy with exercise, hygiene, eating, visitors, house work, spending time with my peeps, visiting hospitals, and sleeping that I don't have a single minute left in the day for writing.
Emily is at work now, Max only did half his schooling today, I've only done half my eating, and I'm not sure what the plan is for the rest of the day.
Max is doing well with multiplication. Homeschooling is funny. He's great with addition, he barely understands subtraction, doesn't know what division is, but he's picked right up on multiplication. I'm going to have him start memorizing the 12x12 multiplication tables. It's a lot of fun helping and watching Max learn. Emily works with him on his reading, he's quite good.
Here's the medical update. Today, for the first day in about a month, my platelets held and actually increased by 1. I'm at 23. I need to be at 65 to go in for my next round of chemo. My hematocrit is holding at 34. We'll check my blood again on Friday to see how much, if at all, the platelets have climbed. Once they hit 65 I'll be readmitted and begin the B cycle of the chemo protocol I'm on.
The B cycle lasts 21 days. At the end of the B cycle we'll check for remission, bone marrow biopsy, and if I'm in remission we'll line up the bone marrow transplant.
We'll see what the future holds. I rarely concern myself with it. I trust the physicians and I've handed myself over to the process. At this point I concern myself with the present. I focus on eating, exercising, sleeping, and spending quality time with my peoples. My party peoples.
It's good to see that my body appears to be on the mend from the first round of chemo.
Wednesday has been a good day. It's only 1:45 but I expect the day to continue to be good.
The picture of the day: Valerie and her baby boy - photo credits go to Jacob
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