Hope -- Word for the Day -- Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Hope

Definition:  to cherish a desire with anticipation;  trust;  to desire with expectation of obtainment; to expect with confidence

It has been a month since my last writing.  I am fond of the phrase "No news is good news". 

Weekly Monday visits to lab and Infusion Center has become routing for ChemoSabe.  He totes his folder packed with his lab reports and doctor's order around with him as if it were a part of him job.  The Infusion nurses treat him like the business man he is.

All labs have been coming back with raving reviews.  This week his phosphorus is a bit low so on Monday we ate mostly vegetables.

The house is still a total wreck.  If I were to tell you everything that was happening, we would be here all day.  I will share with you that the den, wash room, and motorcycle rooms are done.  The downstairs shower has been inoperable for three weeks.  Will be glad to get ChemoSabe off my premises, upstairs. 

Den - thus far --  Maxie - welcomes you!

Kitchen and dining areas were ripped out yesterday and tile should be down today with grout tomorrow.  Everything, except for the worker's mess, is looking great. 

ChemoSabe has been good about helping out and his energy levels have sustained.  With the maintenance he is on now, it is my hope he will continue to get stronger.  Yard work is on the horizon, but not on our list of priorities right now with the heat.  I haven't mowed in two weeks.  But, with mortar in your grass from the handy man, it may be hard.

Our family has grown.  Last Friday was ChemoSabe's 63rd birthday so I took him to our favorite pizza place to eat.  Our favorite waitress, (I'll call her Tara, because that's her name :)) decided she had a dog she didn't need.  A white Schnauzer.  She called her LuLu.  We acquired her last evening and we call her "Bootsie" after our beloved Boots.  She is a year old and very hyper.  I was very leery at first when we brought the other kids out, but when they all went outside, they were in their own world.  I hope it continues.

All else is good in our lives.  We continue to ride, even though the heat pulls us down on the bikes.  The wind cools us off, but if we stop, it is "unholy hot". 

I will continue to keep you posted.  It may be boring since ChemoSabe is doing so well, but I will put something in. 

Good afternoon and Love, Pepper