Fri,
27 Aug 2004
Random
Thoughts
Howdy - Do.
It's Friday afternoon and Jade should be coming home
from chemo pretty quick and Garrett is down for his
afternoon nap - - -my blissful break during the day
- - so I thought I'd get an update sent out.
Jade has done remarkablely well this week. I think
he's finally gotten some of his meds figured out.
Rather than taking a couple of them at each episode
of diarrhea, he is taking them at meals as more of
a preventive measure. It seems finally we are ahead
of the curve rather than playing catch-up with it
all day/night long. Changing the meds and switching
when he takes them during the day has made a big difference
with how he is feeling. It's been really nice to have
him feel a little better. Before, he would have pain/discomfort
and problems every couple hours and it'd last for
about ninety minutes then get a short break before
another one came. This was the game we did all wknd.
He was doing fine after chemo last Fri then that night
and all wknd he had a rough time. But by Mon he was
on top of it again (just in time to start chemo again
- - how ironic) and feeling much better. So, we're
hoping this wknd is better and that he can enjoy it
a little more.
Jade will have his CT scan on Mon and hopefully we'll
get a preliminary report over the phone by the end
of the week. His appt with our oncologist is Tues
the 7th and they'll discuss the CT scan more then.
It's been a fairly emotional week for Jade. He has
a friend he's become close with at HCI (Huntsman Cancer
Institute) who has a Ewings sarcoma who isn't doing
so well. It's hard to watch him and his wife deal
with all the same issues. I find myself wishing if
all the garbage we were going through would make it
so someone didn't have to suffer it'd be totally worth
it. It breaks your heart to know you're suffering
and so are other people. Just doesn't seem fair. I
know........nothing's fair. It just breaks your heart
to watch other people hurt so much.
Well, it's a good thing the Olympics are wrapping
up this wknd. Can't get a darn thing done when they're
on. And the evil people at NBC that don't start them
until 7 pm so it goes until 11 pm. Like I can afford
to lose that extra sleep. I am an Olympic junkie but
it's probably a good thing they're ending. And to
go to a sidebar, they haven't played "Fanfare
of the Common Man" once ....... so I'll just
have to listen to it on CD later this wknd.
I found three random thoughts I quite like this week
so, here ya go:
"Each day is a little life; every waking and
rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little
youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"The ambitious climbs up high and perilous stairs,
and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising
hath swallowed up his fear of a fall." - Thomas
Adams
""We must sail sometimes with the wind and
sometimes against it, - - but we must sail, and not
drift, nor lie at anchor." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
I like each one of these for different reasons. Each
day is a new start, keep moving up without looking
down, and continue to grow and evolve rather than
become stagnant. Most of us are trying --- not always
succeeding, but trying. I remember a college professor
who said, "There is no failure until you stop
trying." I think most of us are trying.
Have a great wknd. We'll let you know CT results when
we get them next week. Thanks for your prayers, encouragement
and love. We are very blessed amidst all the chaos;
we're pretty lucky. Thanks for your friendship and
kindness. Take care..........................
Love ya' much.........................................Tanya
and co.
