HELLO EVERYONE!
This has been one heck of a dippity do dah day!!!! The second chemo treatment and no sickness, no tired, no nothing---but good! Oh, how grateful
we are to the Lord for this wonderful tender mercy He is showing so far to Dennis and myself. Thanks to all of you for your prayers and thoughts and fasting and caring and love!!
We hit the Huntsman Center at 10:30 a.m., and after they had determined that Dennis' blood counts were okay to have the infusion today,and they were, they shipped us down to the infusion room and started the IV at about 11:00 a.m. and ended at 3:30 and all went sooooo well. I just cried (as usual) but for happiness and thankfulness and all that good stuff. The dr. and nurses and infusion nurses could not believe that he didn't get sick or real tired from the first treatment and son of a gun, so far (and I say that with my knees on the ground and my fingers crossed, just in case) he is feeling perfectly normal! We are both so relieved and happy for this one more week of pure blessing.
I just called to him a minute ago to make sure I could write this blog and say
"all is well, all is well", and he said "Go for it!" So, here we are, going for it!
The darling little couple that I mentioned in our earlier blog, the ones from
Idaho, were there again and we saved them a seat next to us again so we could finalize the plans of them staying with us when she has her infusions.
Bless her heart, she's had it rougher this time than Dennis, but I told her to remember that she just had a new baby 3 months ago and her body is trying to regain health from that and then to have to go through a double radical mastectomy and then start all this chemo, we think she is a miracle to just be here.
We invited them to stay with us throughout her treatments. It's silly for them to pay for a motel when we have plenty of room for them, so they are planning to stay with us for the rest of her treatments. She is on Thursdays, but they changed Dennis to Wednesdays now, so that will work out well. They can come Wednesday, after Dennis' treatment and then we can watch their two little kids on Thursday while she has her treatment. Then they can stay over and get her shot the next day and then head home and not have to leave her little ones so often. They are just the cutest, sweetest little couple and Dennis and I just love them already. I think this will be a great experience for all of us. We can kinda help build each other up. Please add her to your prayers too...her name is Barbara and his is Trevor (Anderson) and they are from Arko, ID, (not Akron, like I said in the first blog...duh). Their little two and a half year old boy is Boston, and the baby girl is Brynn. I just hope and pray she can have an easier time this time than last. I told her that her tender mercy from the Lord was that her new baby has been sleeping all through the night since Barb had her first surgery. That for sure is a blessing.
Anyway, as you can tell by how many times I ask you to pray for yet another person, you can see that our circle of friends is growing through this trial and we feel fortunate to be able to be of some help to some other children of our Heavenly Father. Thank you for helping out in the prayer department, how grateful we are for you dear, dear friends and family. We got such nice notes from Dennis' two sisters, Diane and LuAnn, wishing him the best and of course from our children and Linda and Carol and Dale and their children, aunts and uncles, cousins, in-laws and out-laws, friends and more family and friends...wow! It's overwhelming, in such a wonderful way. We really have a great support group when we start to count. And of course, we are so grateful for the thoughtfulness of Dennis' dear Mother, Effie. We both love her so much and are so inspired by her 91 years of service to her fellow beings and her Father in Heaven. What a wonderful example of love and kindness, and being humble (and the list goes on) she is and has always been. She has been through so many trials and yet she is always so positive and happy and willing to help......Gee, I wonder where Dennis gets all those same great qualities from???? She is a perfect elect lady, and Mom, we love you!
I've had so much energy lately, if I could just not hurt so badly, I could tear thru this house in 5 minutes, but the body moves slowly and the spirit moves quickly, so yesterday the "spirit" painted the bathroom vanity, cleaned out the linen closet, went to water aerobics, went to physical therapy, cleaned the toy room downstairs, did loads of washing and then the body grabbed the spirit and said, "Stop it you fool or you'll never be able to walk again!" With that, I collapsed on the bed with elephant-size swollen ankles and every bone in my body screaming for relief (dramatic enough for you?) and tried to go to sleep, but again that little old spirit of mine was too worn out to go to sleep, so I laid there all night and "thought" about what I should be doing. By this morning a sore throat had set in and I'm doing my best to steer clear of Dennis; I would die if I got him sick.
By the way this is the week he should start losing those silver strands of hair.
Shall we try to guess how many hairs a day he will lose? Send in your vote to our "comment" blog and the one closest will win a check signed personally by us for TWO MILLION DOLLARS!!! There is one small catch,
please don't try to cash it or you and we will all be embarrassed to death. But it's a nice thought and a fun little contest. Whoops, I can tell my energy is lagging and I better close before this is called the dopey blog instead of the
"He did it again" blog!
Thanks again to all of you---- we send our love and we really do BELIEVE IN
MIRACLES!!!!!
Love,
Queenie
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