Pundit -- Word for the Day -- Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Pundit -- noun

Definition: a learned person: teacher: authority, critic

Rain, Rain, go away....Come again some other day... I have too much to do. Have you finished up your Christmas shopping? I have not even started.

ChemoSabe finished up his tests yesterday with the MRI beginning at 6:30 p.m. He arrived home in time for a semi-warm dinner of oven fried chicken and baked sweet potato. Although he was still a bit sore from the biopsy you could not tell it by the way he ate.

We were early to bed as he needed to be up at 3:00 a.m. for a short trip to northern Arkansas. He made it...

As I was cleaning out my emails this morning I found a comment from someone on our blog dated September 2008. That's right -- 2008. It was from a young woman named Hilliary (aka Baldie)that had cancer. She was 27. I have sent her an email asking about her health... I hope I get a good response.

ChemoSabe ran into a doctor that visited with us a few times last year. He remember ChemoSabe's name and that we rode motorcycles. They had quite a conversation in the elevator. So, you see, this cancer thing does have some good experiences.

Oh, I lost my track.. I was speaking of the September 2008 issue the young lady commented on. I read that blog and then a few after that up to December 2008. As I read them the tears streamed down my face. How fortunate we have been. I remembered the people with MM that have been lost over the last year that we came in contact with. I remembered the ones we still keep in contact with and are doing quite well. We are them, also.

We are blessed that ChemoSabe continues to do well. It is an inconvenience for him to schedule his maintenance visits ever two weeks, get the labs, go for the testing and then follow-up with the doctor. It is troublesome to sort out the pills every night for the twice a day doses. It is a pain to have to run to the drug store for refills. It is a huge pain to have to call in a survey once a month for one of the drugs before it will be released... These pains are NOTHING compared to what could have been and what was for the ones not as fortunate as we. WE ARE BLESSED and Pundit.

You can rank yourselves up in the level of being pundit, also. You have learned so much from 'my' teachings in regard to this disease and the care giving. This is a disease that is controllable.

I often wondered why I never received an answer in the beginning when I kept asking, "What causes this?" "What did we do wrong in our lives to cause this?" Never once did the doctor's pretend to hear me. After many months of thought and prayer and a basic self beating upon my not so blond head anymore...the answer is "NOTHING". There is no answer.

What causes breast cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer, brain cancer. Can we prevent those? My biggest deal then was I wanted to put the blame on something. I felt if I could blame myself, ChemoSabe or someone else that it would go away. It doesn't and it won't.

I will be updating you again later this week on the big lab results and whether or not we have lost any lesions. There is a man staying at one of the cancer houses behind us that began his treatment about six months ago. He started out with 123 lesions. He now has only one... ChemoSabe started out with 25 and still has 25. The good news for him is that they have not grown... Please pray that the bone density and MRI shows shrinkage or disappearance.

Remember -- labs results are coming. Do you remember what the ranges are? I thought so... So, I will give you some help -- WBC (3-12), RBC (4.5-6), Platelets (150-500).

I love you all....

Good afternoon and Love -- Pepper