Wow, that was a long break from blogging! We are now in the 3rd week of Neil's second round of chemo and the tumour is not shrinking this time. From what the Dr. is telling us, they will probably switch his chemo meds. We go to see the radiologist tomorrow, that should be interesting indeed. Neil informed me today, that he is going to ask the radiologist about getting a second opinion. His last appointment with his oncologist didn't leave me with a good easy feeling, on the contrary it left me a little worried. From diagnosis to the treatment plan from the doctors you have the spells of waiting and they suck alot, but that last appointment ended with the doctor telling us to go ahead with treatment that day and wait and see. Well, prematurely I am saying I will not wait and see again. Hopefully the radiologist will have some idea of what to do tomorrow...fingers crossed. Neil has responded to this treatment even better than the time before, seems like a lot less nausea and fatigue. It could just be that he is totally focused on not letting these things happen. His appetite has been better and he is intaking water pretty well. In the beginning I was totally focused on the big C, but now not so much. We are living like nothing is even happening, it does seem strange, but while he is feeling up to it...why not?!
Subject change for a moment please. I don't know how much you watch the weather, but it has been absolutely crazy the past couple of weeks in the South. Let me just say "Ringgold, Georgia" is where we reside and I have lived in Tennessee all my life besides Canada for a couple of years and now Georgia. I have never ever ever seen anything like the storms we had 2 weeks ago. We feel so very fortunate and lucky to be alive and still have our home. Poor little Ringgold is just torn to bits, people died and families are homeless. This is not a big city by no means and the whole commercial district is pretty much gone. We had our bottled water, flashlights and cats all down in the basement just waiting for tragedy, and luckily for us it dropped from the sky about 5 miles away. Grace was just so torn up over the fact she didn't get to see a tornado, it's funny how the mind of a 5 yr. old works...or doesn't,lol. Some friends of ours were not so lucky, they lost their home, but survived with their family. We stayed up very late just to find out if they were safe, and they were...Yay! Our thoughts are with all the victims of these violent storms.
>Side note< It seems petty with everything that happened in this little town to be just so very happy to get cable and internet again, I mean we watched all the movies we had, so to be petty...I am so freaking happy Grace went back to school today, finally, and I am happy to be on the net again and watch some cable....there I said it!
Back on subject! I am thankful that Neil is doing well with this second round, but concerned the medicine just isn't doing what needs to be done but alas I am no Dr., just a very concerned wife and that counts too! He just amazes me..he is my "Amazing Chemo Man". Gracie told him yesterday its just garbage bunched up in there and then proceeded to tell him how the doctors need to get it out...yeah, it was not pretty.
For now, we live normal and I will happily blog about any abnormalities that may occur!
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