Saturday, February 8, 2014

Roller Coaster Ride

It's been a week of ups and downs.  Last Friday Hubby and I met with the oncologist to get results for some blood work and the CT scan.  We were elated to find that everything was clear, no signs of cancer anywhere else.  So from here he has blood work every three months, a CT scan every six months, and of course self checks every month and come back in if something starts feeling "not right".

Yesterday morning my sister in law (brother's wife) died from her battle with lymphoma.  Just under two years ago she was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma while pregnant with their second child.  They went through treatments, delivered a healthy baby girl, then more treatments and was declared cancer free just before Christmas 2012.  Last May she was back in hospital and found that it had returned and returned with a vengeance.  Both Hodgkins and non-hodgekins this time.  She did stem cell treatments, they raised money for further chemo, but with infections in the lungs, pneumonia, and other difficult hurdles, she was let go.  And will be sorely, horribly missed.

So that has been the big up and then down.  Other than that, I think things are doing pretty well.  Smarty had a referral to the speech language worker through the school for an assessment and we were told that, aside from remembering to breathe and slow down, his issues are all developmental so they'll get better as he gets older.

Sergeant was "Star of the Week" a couple weeks back (they take turns) and so yesterday he brought home a booklet made up of pictures and sentences from the class about his "About Me" poster.  And he and Smarty went over to a friend from school's house for a couple of hours after school Thursday without me, so they were feeling all grown up!

Girlie has decided that lipstick is THE THING and has begged me to buy her some.  So I picked up some lip smackers for her.  Monkey thinks it's awesome too.  The plus side of this is that it's encouraging me to wear lipstick more.  The down side is that Hubby doesn't really like to kiss me with it on :( And trying to find a balance between acknowledging that make up can help you feel good but it isn't necessary to make you beautiful.  Already these problems!  I was hoping for waiting until they were a bit older before it happened!

Monkey is starting to communicate with word-type sounds!  This is so exciting!  And since the last of her teeth have decided to come in, she's a bit less grumpy!  Yay!!

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