i had an amazing weekend. i was really nervous because we had a whole lot planned, and i had no idea if i'd be too sick to take part. but i didn't have any pain at all! well, a *little* bit on friday night, and i was pretty darn tired, but other than that, i was fabulous! saturday we went to the farmer's market in the morning, then took izzy to the doctor because she chose to debut a cold friday night and i was afraid it was an ear infection (it wasn't- thank goodness). then we went to my dad's house in beaver dam for the afternoon/evening. izzy went on her first boat ride- she seemed to like it :) sunday i went to coffee with my cousin melissa who was in town for our family reunion, and then went to the reunion in oconomowoc inthe afternoon. we had a really nice time- lots of pics were taken of all of our girls. melissa, my cousin jake and i have 5 girls combined, and they share a great-great grandma. there will be a post of photos later tonight i hope :) on monday we had a neeskara playdate at a park in racine and then came home and had a little bbq with gil and heather. all in all, a great weekend. of course izzy was sick, and therefore a beast for most of it, and our fridge/freezer died and we lost a bunch of food (pa fixed it- love him!), but enough fun stuff happened to outweigh that :)
this week has been crazy again. tuesday i had my (last!) pt appt. thank goodness. i *loved* my therapist, but i am glad to be rid of one appt each week. i have full range of motion back, and i know what to do if i start to tighten up, so i've been freed. yesterday i had chemo, and it was an oncologist week, so i was there from 2:30 till 7:30. ugh. but, the good news is that my counts were up a bit this week and i was able to get my treatment. so 5 down, 7 to go! hooray!! i'm still holding onto all my hairs, but my oncologist thinks they'll be gone again by the next time i see him (oct. 7th). i told him he's wrong. i'm hoping to win that one! today, unfortunately, was a day from hell. i cannot even begin to tell you all of it. some of the highlights- i've been up since 2am thanks to my steroids and a 5 year old visitor in my bed. finally gave up and got out of bed at 4am. art was cancelled at school today, so i had an empty hour in my schedule that i had been planning to use to organize my afternoon that i now had to fill with learning activity and figure out my afternoon on the fly. ugh. at 3:15 i realized that kj and symma had haircuts at 4:30. picked symma up at camp to take her to said haircut at which point she threw a giant tantrum that required me to carry her kicking and screaming across the parking lot, and ended with her kicking and punching me repeatedly while screaming that she hates me and i'm the worst mommy in the whole world ever while i was attempting to pin her in the carseat and buckle her in. after dropping kj and symma at their haircut, i had to go pick izzy up at daycare, and it took me 25 minutes for a 10 minute trip. we didn't get home from the haircuts till 6. we did dinner and then baths which i'm not going to even begin to explain. the children are sleeping now. and i need a drink. or something. oh, and when i was up this morning i realized that spike was only walking on 3 of his feet. so i called the vet, but since i hadn't been home since 7am, he wanted me to go home and check on him first before we made an appt for tomorrow. he made his poor tech call me back after hours. she called just as i was walking in the door, and got to listen to me search the house for spike, only to discover that he's walking just fine. so, good news in the end, but stress i could've done without today. blurg.
there's a lot scheduled again for this weekend. we've got our first bowling night of the season on saturday night, sunday school starts up again on sunday, so we have to get back into that schedule, and the last art fair of the season in on sunday. anyone interested in going with me?
tomorrow's gotta be better than today, right? and i'm taking my ativan tonight, so i *better* sleep. maybe i'll take 2.
2 comments:
First of all, take a breath! I am glad that you are feeling well enough to plan so many activities and that your counts were up. Also good news on the cat and that Izzy did not have an ear infection. Hope that things calm down at school, the beginning of the year is always crazy busy and a sometimes a blur.
Lori
wowsers what an update! sounds wild and crazy and busy and somewhat stressful- but glad you are feeling well enough to handle it all
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