Sonshine

It has been a while since I last posted. It has been a busy two weeks for me. A very good time ,because my son Curtis came for a visit. It was so good to have my boy around. My son helped very very much. He did so many chores that helped both Denise and I. We spent a day and serviced babyblue, my old hot rod truck. Curt got to drive babyblue the whole time he was here and now want's a hot rod of his own. We had a good day out with cousin John and did some fishing and went out on the big boat. We played wii golf and Curt kept getting frustrated because I kept beating him. The old man still has a little touch.
It was a tough two weeks though, as it was the hardest round for me. I was very ill and it lasted longer than any other round. I have only gotten one good day feeling wise this round. My blood counts are lower than ever before and I start off each round with less than the previous one. My Oncologist say's ( that as long as my platelet count is above 100 we are good to go for another round.) Normal platelet count is 140 up. I hoover around 100-110. My white cell count is low but still in normal range, but my red cell count is well below normal and hemoglobin is very low as well. I am being told as long as I can get out of bed in the morning then I am doing good.
I am going to do rounds 9-16 without the drug oxilplatin. That is the one that does all the nerve damage and makes me hot -cold sensitive. Hopefully I will feel better this next series of chemo. We will do another scan sometime in October. So the battle continues. I will continue to fight. I will get up and out of bed every morning as I have done so far and take the fight to the next level until Goliath can no longer go as far as me!!!

Wrapped in Love

I thank everybody for donateing a patch for my quilt. It is very special. You know what they say about the old and the young. I love my new blanky!!

I especialy thank Denise for this special gift. Denise came up with the idea, got everybody to come up with a special patch of cloth that had someting paticular to them. She then set about laying out the patches. It goes from center out, with my favorite picture taken at my sons wedding. It is of Me, Denise, My eldest Daughter Rachael on my left, my son Curtis, My daughters, Lauren to Curts left and Michelle.From there it is Mom on top, Dad underneath, Denise to the left and Karyn, my sister to the right. Surrounding that are my children's, then grandchildren's, son in laws , Mother and Father in laws, Brother and sister in laws, nieces, nephews, aunt, uncle's and even the dog Shelby. It is a beautiful piece of craftmanship and is surrounded in blue and black trim, my favorite colors. Denise took weeks to hand craft and sew this quilt for me. Making this quilt was a true labor of love. I can not exspress how much this quilt means to me. I am truly wrapped in love!!

A great day on the Delta.



I am glad to say that today is day four, Friday of round seven ,usually a hard day and I am feeling pretty good. The first four day's of each round are steroid days and I usually feel mentally whacked as well as physically rough. So far I am feeling O.K.

I spent the last couple of day's hanging with cousin John. Wednesday I just hung out in John's garage as he was working on his neighbours boat trailer. John and Don did all the work and I just sat around and played with the dogs ( I brought my my dog Shelby over to play with Bear, John's dog)It felt good to be out of the house enjoy friendship and getting to do guy stuff.!

Thursday was a great day. I got unhooked from my infusion bottle(always a good thing) and I went from the infusion center straight to John's house and picked him up in Babyblue(my hotrod truck) and John drove us out to Holland Tract Marina where he births his beautiful 30ft, Trojan boat. It is a dream boat. Flying bridge, fabulous cabin, great back deck, full canvas and twin motors. We are talking styling!!! We slipped out of it's birth around 10:00am and cruised out to John,s favorite fishing spot. John let me have the helm on the out bound leg . It's a thrill being up on that flying bridge looking over the bow and cruising such a beautiful craft. We anchored up and set about fishing off the back deck. Sitting in nice chairs, drink in hand or in the refrigerator, gently swinging on the anchor. I do enjoy fishing with John, he just loves fishing and gets excited every time he put is line in the water. He is just fun!! I brought leftover pot roast and taters for lunch which John warmed up in the micro wave and we grubbed up pretty good around noon and took a small fishing break at slack water. Shortly after lunch the tide changed and the fishing began again. We pulled anchor around 2:00pm because we ran out of bait. We fed the little strippers mostly but John caught a couple 16 inchers. Keepers have to be at least 18 inches. Maybe it is a good thing we ran out of bait or we might still be out there.!! I am looking forward to my son Curt's visit which is comming up in a couple of weeks, We are going out with John and hopefully Andrew for a fishing trip on the that beautiful boat. That is the start of the fall stripper run. Maybe we will get the big one!!!