12/4/10

Past few days have been crazy! We were able to bring Jeremie home on Wednesday. His neutrophils are only at 200. But we coordinated with the infusion clinic and Dr. Lemon for Jeremie to continue his I.V. antibiotics at the infusion clinic everyday. First day home went pretty well. Jeremie was able to eat ok, and get through the day.

Yesterday 12/3/10, Friday, Jeremie had his lumbar puncture and intrathecal chemotherapy administration. He said this one went much better than the one from last week. He was quite sick last night when we brought him home. Rough night. Probably a rough day for him overall. He had to go and have platelets and the I.V. antibiotics before having the lumbar puncture. Then they gave him more platelets before the procedure yesterday as well. Neutrophils still only at 200 :-(

Running my rear end off! Man exhaustion has set in this week. I just die everynight my head hits the pillow. I don't think I even move! I sleep quite well! Decided not to have the boys do basketball this year. I'm sad about this. I just don't have the time to run them to the practices and the games :-(
Jeremie is super dad...just in case no one knew. He did all the running around, taking them everywhere. I'm the parent that coordinates dentist/orthodontist appointments. Make sure they brush their teeth, clean their rooms and nag them about homework. We had such a good coordination in making our large family work, with both of us working.

To all single parents everywhere...YOU ARE AWESOME! I can't do it :-( And thankfully, I get home and do lots of whining and complaining to my sweet Jeremie who just sits and listens and tells me that I'm lucky because I can do this. It makes me smile, because I know he is right.

I'm so used to doing everything I want. I'm spoiled. I get to work in my field of passion. I get to go to school and work on my masters. I get to be the mother of five beautiful children and the wife of an incredible man. But I was only able to "do all of it", because of the incredible man. I always thought I knew that. It has now been driven into me, how much he truly made all of this possible.

Everyday I look at all our many blessings. And can you believe even in the midst of this scary time, all I see are blessings? There are people who I get to surround myself with who love us. Who want to ease the burden. Who bring a smile to our family. I can't believe that there are this many people who I have the pleasure of being close to, who just want to help. And they never stop. They just keep giving.

It helps, it helps to know the love we are surrounded by. Thank you...