Monday

Went to work today. I'm hoping I can get away with working since I'm pretty much by myself back in the Model Shop and can avoid much personal contact with others. That plus a lot of hand-washing and sanitizer might get me through.
I'm a little tired, but glad I was able to get out of the house and actually feel like I was contributing.

Sunday

Sunday was a kinda 'tween day. Not as good as Friday, but not as bad as Saturday. Richard cleaned up the front yard and Rose Garden, so that looks alot better.
My chemo treatments are every 3 weeks thru June 17th and it'll be about 2 months after that before my immune system gets back to normal. Look's like we won't be coming to any reunions this year or going on our usual Memorial Day jaunt. Maybe we can get in a little camping trip sometime in late Aug.

Saturday

Saturday wasn't as good as Friday, but not toooo bad. Had to resort to the Tylenol a couple of times. The worst part is that gawd-awful taste in my mouth. You CANNOT get rid of it and everything tastes the same - really bad!
Jan helped me prune the roses and Amy came over and mowed the lawn. She got a really good work-out. I think she was 3/4 done when I showed her that the mower really is self-propelled.
Thanks, Aim.

Friday was good

Friday way a very good day. I woke to find the tumors greatly reduced and the pain with them.
Swallowing is much easier now. Still not great but better.
For the last 2 or 3 days, I've taken Tylenol-3 every 4 hours. I only took it once on Friday and that was as much preventative as for pain.
The nurses and doctors tell me that the day following the treatment is the good one, then the next two are bad. They were definitely right about day one.

Treatment #1 went very well.

Jan: "It was a long day. We were there at 8am and left at 4:30pm.
Dr Byrd told us some news we had not heard before. The second tumor that was found is actually bigger than the one in his neck. That was a pretty big shocker, but the treatment plan and prognosis are still the same. Seeing the word CURE hand written and signed on his treatment plan made me very happy. Not shrunk, Not remission, CURE."

The 5 different medications are given one at a time. At some point, one of them made me very light headed, so they put in phenergan which pretty much knocked me out. I slept through most of the rest of the treatment.
After we got home we took a walk down to 5th and back. Both of our butts were really tired of being in a chair by then.

Ready or not, We start

So far Roger has had a procedure/test every day this week and chemo starts tomorrow (OH, I guess tomorrow is now today). He is very tired and weak, in a lot of pain and the last couple of nights nauseated. I'm hoping the treatments will help the pain and not make the other problems too much worse.

Thank you all for your continued prayers and cares.

Sweet Lynnette brought Roger a quillow tonight. That is a quilt with a pocket and when it is folded into the pocket it becomes a pillow. It is made out of fleece and very nice.

Lynnette is Rachael Seeley's mom and a R.N. I told Roger, " Lynnette has already walked the walk and is able to talk the talk." She is truly a wonderful and valuable friend.

LAWSON DEAN KOMP

Welcome to the world and to our family.

Born 2/26/2010
8 lbs 8 oz
21 inches long

What a blessing you are.