DAY IN REVIEW

Tonight Jax had an extra credit assignment to write a letter to someone. He wanted to write to our neighbor Bette who is also struggling with cancer. The boys love spending time at her house. It is loaded with trinkets and all sorts of interesting stuff. So, he wrote the letter and we delivered it today. He wrote and thanked Bette for being such a nice lady. It was super cute and it was so awesome that it was all his idea.

Nate is a DS hog! That kid LOVES playing his DS and the Wii. Trying to get him to do anything else once he is fixated on one of those things is literally impossible. When I tell him that it is time to put it away he really has a hard time doing it. He can be such a booger but he always has a smile on that cute face of his!

Zach has been bugging me to go to Sport Chalet or Chicks or Sports Authority. He does not let up either. "Mom, can we go?" "Mom. When can we go?" "Mom. You said we could go." "Mom, we don't have baseball today." "Mom, what are your plans this afternoon?" OMG - It goes on and on. I finally cave and tell him that I will take him today and then ask why he wants to go so bad.

His exact response was as follows:
"Can't a man just go to a store like Sport Chalet and just look around and shop sometimes? Is that too much to ask? There are so many things to look at and do unlike when we go shopping with you. You take forever and never buy anything. Men just like to go to stores like this and this is where we do our shopping."

Are you kidding me? A man I ask? HE IS 9 YEARS OLD. He cracks me up!
Sure enough I took all three kids and he looked around just like he said he would do. I guess he needed his "man time".

Gary had a long day today. We were at the Birch office by 8:30 and home at 2:30. He had a full dose of chemo today. To make a long story short Gary had an allergic reaction to the Celebrex he was on. After reading the warning online and contacting the pharmacy it finally made sense to me why he has been having so many odd symptoms over the past 4 days. I thought he was going crazy. Come to find out that people who are allergic to Sulfa should not take Celebrex. Gary is always going to be the one who reacts to things adversely.

I gave him Benedryl tonight along with all of his other drugs and he has to be at Dr. Arata's office tomorrow morning at 9 AM for another attemp at a nerve block. We have an appt. with the neurosurgeon in Laguna tomorrow at 2:45 PM to plan his surgery for the neuropathic receptors (Precision Plus System).

He is sleeping right now and I am trying to play catch up on laundry, dishes, making lunches, and taking a shower. Hopefully we will get some sleep tonight.

I will update tomorrow after our appointments.

My friend Kathy has the greatest license plate. It says PRACTICE RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS. I try to remember that every day when I am out and about and I am so proud that Jax did that today and doesn't even really know what a huge impact it had on Bette!

Love and Hugs,
Lisa