A great week

Well this week started off as a normal Chemo Monday. I guess I shouldn't say normal, cause well it was the first day of school for the two older girls. But we went and got them off to school without any real incidents and almost made it back in time to get them picked up, luckily for us Paula's dad was helping us this week. Anyhow we went to chemo/doctor follow up appt. We got into Salt Lake a little late but not a big deal they have you show up 1/2 early to get labs and blood drawn and all sorts of crap before the appt. We get there and go in rather quickly maybe we shoudl be late more often, but we get in the room and the dr's PA comes in and checks Paula out and we mention the issue with the pharamcy chemo counts being different from the dr's count, she looks at it a finds that the when the pharmacy started there numbering they started on three instead of one, so the dr had ordered 13 of this drug and so when we hit 11 the pharmacy said your done but the dr's said no you aren't, so we told the PA well we will do whatever the dr says but it would be great if we could be done. A few minutes later the Dr Werner comes in with the PA and discusses this with us and then proceeds to tell us your done today is it. I was like what what did you say. It was great we have had such good doctors up there that have been real great, if anybody heaven forbid has to go through this or a loved one I recommend Huntsman by far we have had freinds who have gone to other places that when they talk they almost seem liuke they are just a patient, I don't think we feel like that overall we have had a few docs that have seemed like that, but everybody seems to remember you and everything about you I know they write it down so they don't forget but man does it help with the moral of a horrible situation. Well that was day one yeah no chemo just a small 15 min infusion we should be able to get done out here when we don't have followup appts.

Tuesday Paula went in for her exchange surgery I think is what it is called, this is where she gets her skin expanders(bricks) out and replace them with her implants(foobs). This day did not start out very good at all we got to hospital a little bit early about 1/2 an hour we get there and they tell us oh we called and left a message on your phone the doctor needed to rearrange his schedule your not supposed to be here for two more hrs. ok. So now we have two hrs to burn, what to what to do. nothing. we walked around for a whiel and then went back to the waiting room. they got us into the patient room about 1230 hrs and then about 1710 the anesetioligist(sp) came in and took her away. About 2 hrs later the doctor comes out and says everything went good and gave me the discharge instructions. an hour or so after that they let me go back with her. She at first wasn't feeling very good at and didn't want to move or do much of anything, don't blame her for a bit, but then the nurses came in and insisted they get her sitting up and eating something, so she moved to a chair and started eating crackers, a few minutes after that she was up moving around and ready to get out of there, so at about 2130 hrs my sister brought my two little ones up and off we went for home. She looked at them and didn't seem all that impressed but she did make the comment that her implants are "squishy" I may or may not let you all know whether or not I agree.

So all in all we had a great week this week. Thanks to everybodies prayers, supports and help however big or small you feel that it is, it still helps ton.

Thanks for the support

Well it has been a few weeks since my last post rather my last rant. Promise this one is going to be anything like that. But in case you are scared I guess you can stop reading now and never know if this another rant.

After the van broke down and we got the the $2,600 (really turned out to be $2,663) from the mechanic Paula and I decided that we would need to do something we had been talking about having a yard sale or some sort of benefit. We knew something would need to be done to help offset the costs of the medical bills so we decided on a yard sale. I started to get the word out that we were looking for stuff and through a yahoo group I belong to, work, family and friends we have a lot of stuff gathered up, we have one room in the house that is almost full of stuff and our carport is almost filled up. I have been surprised and at times almost overwhelmed at the response and support not just from friends and family but from total strangers who several of them were going to have their own little yard sale but when they heard about ours they wanted to instead give us the items they would have used. I think the other thing that has surprised me is the fact that most of the stuff we have received has been in really good shape. I have had to do a few repairs to a couple of items of for the most part everything is in really good shape.

I guess what I am getting at is that after such a terrible week a few weeks ago it has been nice to see that humanity isn't lost and there are still a lot of really good people who no matter there situation are willing to help someone else. I just want to tell everyone who has supported us in whatever manner and shape thank you. It has meant a lot to me know that I have that support that I need, even thought I knew it was there before it just brought it into a reality. I think this sort of thing is what is meant by reality check.

Thank you all.