Hi all,
Had a fun, yummy dinner with Jon and Christa and Kirk on Tuesday night. Jon cooked fried matzoh -- a seasonal favorite of mine (and of most folks of Jewish heritage) -- and Jon makes about the best fried matzoh around. Seriously. He's really mastered the recipe, so it was a huge treat to have that for dinner...along with lots of other great food.
After dinner we spent time going through family photographs: Christa has been working with me to create scrapbooks/memory albums of my life, my daughter's life, my family's life -- which is really a gift to me, since I'm not an organized person, have never been good about keeping photo albums, that sort of thing. And when I say Christa's been working with me, well, really she's been doing all the work. She's incredibly organized, has great vision for how to organize these photos, and I'm so excited that, thanks to Christa, Dani will have these pictures turned into a story that is a real representation of her life from my pregnancy to the present. Plus will include pictures from before she was born -- my childhood, my parents, my ancestors. Pretty cool, huh?
Nothing much new to report re: health matters just yet. I do think I'm feeling a bit better, more clear-headed, presumably because the Avastin (the chemotherapy) is having some good effect? (We hope, we hope.) The docs haven't been willing to taper my steroid dose yet but hope that will happen soon, especially since I'm getting fat as a cow from the continued high steroid dosage. (Think the weight gain isn't depressing me? Guess again...) Really hope they let me start tapering this week...
Thanks for all the emails I've gotten over the past week; it's been so nice to hear from you guys and I promise I will respond to your emails soon. I would love to take you guys up on offers for visits, especially if it does seem like my strength/stamina are returning. The next few days are pretty busy for me, and there's a chance (if my strength does, in fact continue to rebound a bit) that Kirk and I will try to head to Monterey to spend some time with my daughter, and maybe get a visit in with my sister and her husband down in Aptos, since it's been a while since we've gotten to see them.
Love to you all,
/ab
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ab, i'm so happy to hear that you have been gaining some strength back on a day to day basis, little bits can always add up to big bits. i have also been working on a scrap book of sorts for my children, mine not so much in pictures but small writings and poems that i have done about myself and my father. we will have to share notes one day on how it's going. i find it brings back a lot of memories some good some bad. take care, keep, keeping strong. hope to be able to visit soon. love cindy
ReplyDeleteI have not been good about keeping up with you on the blog, but I am glad to know the prayers are getting through. You sound so much better than just a few weeks ago. It really sucks that the treatment can make you so ill. We had a mini relay for life at school and raised a bit of cash-we are still counting the pennies. The most touching part was when I invited cancer survivors to lead our first lap. A kindergarten child has been fighting a type of blood cancer, and I nearly lost it when she came forward. I hope you'll be thinking of me with a bunch of 13 and 14 year olds over-night walking for the ACS on April 24th. We Love you and continue to pray for you and your family, Diane and Tim
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