Monday Evening, June 30, 2008

Different views of Dennis BEFORE the dreaded chemotherapy magically takes his hair away





Hi There!

Thought I'd try to put a few pictures in the blog of Dennis before he loses all of his hair. Supposedly he is supposed to start losing it by this next treatment, which is the upcoming Thursday. I wanted to prove that he really did have some hair before the chemo takes it's toll. So there he is, my handsome Prince!
It only took me 49 thousand hours to get these pictures posted, but I was determined and by darn, I don't know how I did it, but I did. I'm so proud!

Today Dennis worked a full day and did well. I was assigned to go and get the Van's emissions checked, oil changed and order a new front windshield. Mission accomplished! By tomorrow we should be able to assign me to go and get it registered again. I'm turning into a good little
"go-fer". I need to be able to do all kinds of things if Dennis takes a turn for the sicker, but I have great faith in him because of his great attitude, that he will stay well through the whole process!

An interesting sidelight that I'm sure I wouldn't remember years down the road. A young woman e-mailed me the other day and said she had been receiving e-mails from me about Dennis and from my pictures, she felt she knew me, but didn't know how or where. She has been reading the "blog" and said she had been praying for Dennis also. Her mother passed away of cancer a year and a half ago and she had great empathy for what we are going through. She has seven children and lives in Pleasant Grove. Well, this made me curious because I knew NOT
her name and e-mailed her back and asked her to call and chat with me. She called today and we had a wonderful conversation, but still can't figure out how she started receiving my e-mails and then why she started reading the blog. But, she was such a sweet young thing, about the age of our kids, and I really enjoyed meeting her on the phone. When she is in Salt Lake she said she would call me and we can get together and try to solve the mystery of "how she knows me". I guess I just have one of "those faces"! Anyway, that was a nice benefit of writing this blog. You meet new, very nice people.

Tonight for family night, we are having an activity.....Dennis is trying to unclog all our sinks that are so slooooow in draining. Success on the bathrooms, they now drain quickly! Yay for Dennis.
Next, he is going to install some sliding shelves under cabinets for me that I bought at a garage sale (so what else is new?) Anyway, I have about 6 of them and at least 6 places to put them.
Soooo, as I said, tonight is Activity Night for us!

I also started back to swimming aerobics this morning and I could not believe how beautiful the weather was and the water was heavenly. They had to drag me out when it was over! I can't wait to do it again this week. So, there are many fun and good things happening around here and we try to not think about the dreaded Thursday coming this week.

Have a good night and gee, what a bonus----two blog entries today (sorry). Love ya all.

Marilyn and Dennis

(Queenie and her Prince!)