Friday

-
I was able to talk to an old friend from college last night. They're dealing with some of the same infertility issues and treatments that we went through. It was so good to catch up with her and also to talk to her about adoption. It was a much-needed reminder for me about what we went through to have our children (especially considering all their not-so-sweet moments this week!).

Our plans for this week are quite boring. I'm making a quick trip to the grocery store and post office today. Camden has an early soccer game tomorrow morning, and that's pretty much it. Brian is on fall break next week, and I'm so excited about that! I plan to sleep in every morning that I can. We're very compatible in this area because Brian's version of sleeping in is to go to bed at 8:00 and then he wakes up early and is good to go. I could never go to bed at 8:00, and I most certainly don't wake up early good to go!

We heard from our lawyer yesterday, and Rory's finalization date is set for October 27. It will be nice to have it completely finished!

Please continue to pray for our friend Christian. He's a week into the chemo and is very sick and weak. They found out yesterday that his family are not bone marrow matches, so now the doctors will start looking at the national donor list hoping to find a good match for him. Camden prayed last night that "Christian will have lots and lots and lots of strength."

Gina Miller/Melissa Bennett: Jangle Smash

Comments

Joy said…
Congrats on the finalization date!! We'll be thinking of you - it's the same day as our CA shoot. :)
7:24 AM
Anonymous said…
Melissa, it was great to talk to you last night. Thanks again for all of the info and encouragement!
5:17 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Scoop

-
Our meeting with Dr. W today was fine. Not encouraging, but fine. I don't know why I expected better news, but I think it's hard not to hope that the bad news you hear is somehow wrong; that they've somehow made a mistake. Basically, the cancer is still the same as prior to chemo. Possibly a little larger, but he said it was hard to tell. He was glad that it had not returned to my bowel or colon (because that was a large part of my initial surgery), and my chest and lungs are still clear (apparently, this is the next place the cancer would go). It does not change my stage of cancer (still 3c), and remission is still a possibility, but he said that it would be very tough to get there.  There are several more drugs that we can try, which is good, but unfortunately they each have a success rate of only 25%. It's a little too early to be considering clinical trials because hospitals who hold the trials like for the patients to have tried the more main-stream drugs firs
Read more

Late Night Ramblings

-
Image
1. Thanks to Andrea for driving me to chemo today. I'm always a little anxious on the way in and the very few times I've had to drive myself, it's been a little lonely coming home. But not today. 2. A fellow chemo patient today thought I was in my 20's. Score.  ("score" would be a term I'm borrowing from Becky ) 3. I did not wear a scarf today to chemo, and all the nurses and doctors did a double take since they didn't recognize me. So wierd. I recognize me with hair, bald, and with a little puppy fluff. 4. Dr. W. is adding Avastin , a new drug which will help prevent cancer cells from growing, to my current Gemzar routine. Good news is that it won't make me feel any worse. Bad news is that in a small percentage of patients it causes severe side effects involving blood clots, kidney failure, ulcers, and holes in your bowel. Good times. 5. I've been instructed to head directly to my primary care doctor for blood pressure medic
Read more

Scenes from the Soccer Field

-
Image
So I may not have apologized yesterday about the number of pictures, but I am definitely going to today. Because  coughcough thirty coughcough just might be excessive. And probably my family will be the only ones who look at all of them. But I don't care. :) By the way, we completely lost and did not even score a goal yet again. Rory tried really, really hard. This team was head and shoulders bigger than we are, way more coordinated than 4 year olds should be and their coach kept their A team in the entire game. Even after scoring some 15 goals. Oh, well. Rory still enjoyed herself. Which way is the goal again? Notice her position in this picture. Notice how she passed the girl next to her? No, I am not competitive at all. Not sure where the other team is. Oh, wait. There they are. See how much bigger they are? You'll notice she almost always runs with her mouth open. Either that or her tongue hang
Read more