Post SRS

Saturday, January 31, 2009

David spent a week recovering from his sinus infection last Thursday, but we headed back down there for his fourth round of SRS treatment on Monday anyway. He is use to it by now, and we know all the nursing staff. They treat us like family. Lovely, caring people. David's sister stayed at the house while we were gone all day which was a huge help with the kids. We even got to watch the Bachelor together that night. That's going to become our routine now I think. David felt okay after the treatment, but still extremely fatigued. Unfortunately, we were not able to make it to San Antonio for his meeting. He spent the week trying to recover. He did start physical therapy on Thursday which we think is going to be great for him. He has a great therapist named Vickie who has put him on an extremely regimented routine which even includes folding laundry! Of course, he hasn't done that yet, old habits die hard, but I'm going to report him, so she can tell him offJ. My mom took him on Friday for his second appt. and apparently, Vickie worked him hard because he has been in a lot of pain today. Last night we went to the movies to see Gran Torino and out to dinner. Very nice to be able to do "normal" things. Don't ever take those things for granted! Today, Jess had a swim meet and went home with a friend to spend the night and Emma is at a friend's overnight too. So, Ethan and David are watching a movie currently. I believe Clint Eastwood's in that too. Dori arrives again tomorrow, but the PET we had scheduled for Monday has been cancelled as insurance didn't see the necessity in it. Go figure. We go on Tuesday for a CT scan and Wed. for an appt. with Dr. Papa and an MRI – it will be a long night. Hopefully we will have more information after our appt. as to where we go from here. We are in a holding pattern right now.

I'm sure I have forgotten lots of things to tell you, but I'm tired. It has been a long week. Thanks to everyone who has had to listen to my ranting this week. I am hoping to go to Dallas with my great friend, Margie on Friday to visit our other great friend, Cathryn. Scott has volunteered (I hope) to stay with David. It will be nice to step away from it for a bit. We are coming up to five months, and it has been the hardest five months ever! One blessing is that I have found some great friends that are unfortunately going through the same thing. One lady, I haven't even met yet, but have chatted with via email. We have surprisingly similar stories and I can't wait to get to know her more.

Thanks to everyone who has helped us this week. Oh, and David has a page for our Relay for Life team. I will post it on the blog as soon as my dear friend, Tricia helps me with it. Thank you Tricia for being such a rock, even though I know this is probably very scary for you too.

Please keep praying for David to get stronger and that our tests next week are okay. Please also keep the kids in mind, as they are missing their dad in their daily lives and have been the best little caregivers ever! They are all very good at telling him what he is and isn't supposed to be doing.

Keep praying, have faith, and we'll beat this thing together.

Nicola