Today I’ll be meeting up with all my family for meals and merriment. Mark and Jack are in town, and they’ll be coming over this afternoon in time for my radiation appointment, then off we go to meet my brother Michael and Dad & Carol -who drove down from Pinetop- for lunch at Hometown Buffet. Later this evening, most of us will join with Kasha, Mom, Melissa, Nick and the girls.
There’s a chance that I won’t be feeling as well next weekend as I do now, due to chemotherapy starting up again, so I want to maximize the time I have and enjoy all I can. It’s been a rough couple of weeks for me- due to steroids, new pain and numbness, emotional weardown, etc. I’ve also been letting myself worry about next week, even though there’s nothing I can do about it. For all I know, everything will be smooth and fine– the hospital stay, ureter stent replacement (kidneys), and chemotherapy. No need to jump ahead in my mind or expect the worse.
For now, I just have to live in the moment. I got extra sleep last night so that I could reset myself and be ready for everything.
I have been bad about following through with communication lately. I apologize to those of you who have reached out to me lately and received no response. I am thinking about you! Please be patient with me, I’m sending word soon.
Hope to have some photos up here on the blog this weekend… and some guest bloggers among family members.
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Woohoo!
Nice lunch at Olive Garden with Dad, Carol, Mark, Jack and Michael. (Restaurant changed at last minute.) So glad the folks made the drive down to Phoenix to be with us. Imagine that– 8 hours of driving so they could see us all. Yep, heading back home to Pinetop in the same day.
Thanks for all you do, Dad & Carol– I love and appreciate you!