Friday, August 19, 2011

What's up?

Andy said I needed to write a blog to update everyone about our life. I thought my lame attempt at screenwriting did a good job. However, I will write a boring and correct estimation of our life at this point. (Deep breath in and deep breath out)Here we go. Andy has been doing radiation treatments for the new (little)tumor under his collar bone that is in a lymph node. We leave every morning at 6 to be down to Huntsman by 7:50 so Andy can lay on a machine and be baked like a large potato in a microwave. Oh sorry, I need to write a boring explanation ignore the last comment about potatoes. Andy is radiated for about 20 min. then we leave and drive home by 10. We have done this since the 1st of August and will continue until the end of August. Andy then takes a nap during the trip down to Huntsman, on the way home from Huntsman, and when we get home for about an hour or so. If he isn't in pain or sick, he then goes into work for a couple of hours. On Thursday he made it for a whole 4 hours. I was really amazed and proud of him (I'm not kidding about this).This treatment has taken a toll on his energy level. He sleeps most of the day and night. The docs told him to try to exercise for 15 min a day to help combat the fatigue. So he has started to do a low impact kettlebell exercise program. I think this is great. I don't know if it is really helping but we will try anything. We will be done with this treatment schedule on the 29th of this month. Just in time for my fall semester, job, and the kids schools all to begin. I did take a couple of classes this summer. They were 7 week block classes. That was the fastest, craziest, and non educational semester I have ever taken. The kids are excited and ready for school to start for them. They all go to new schools this year. Morgan is in the intermediate. Caity is in the middle school, and Shaeli is at the high school. I can't believe that last sentence! Is that real? Alas, it is. My babies are almost as tall as me and growing daily. I don't know if I am ready for school to start for them. I never cried when they started kindergarten but I may cry this year. They are so big and grown up in so many ways. They are my encouragement, pride, beauty, and heart. I am amazed at their whole beings. They are everything I wish I was and they make me strive for better things in this world everyday. Andy is my half that makes me a whole. My kids are my hope and joy. I have to leave this blog with a comment that Morgan made yesterday while we were eating at Wendy's.
Morgan: "If you're called a vegetarian because you don't like to eat meat. Are you a meatetarian if you don't like to eat veggies?"
Out of the mouth of babes.

1 comment:

Bruce Andrew said...

RE: Meatatarian - as Phineas would say -- "yes, yes you are"