Well our 90 day wait was up yesterday, and other than the typical winter cold Eric has been fine. So he is headed to the DMV today to see if they have processed the paperwork to give him his drivers license back. Yay!
Mom was last in for a chemotherapy treatment the day before Thanksgiving. Her CT scan showed that the cancer is indeed shrinking - excellent news! However her blood cell count was lower than the doctor would have liked. He gave her the choice of taking a reduced treatment that day or putting it off an additional week. Mom didn't want to put it off because if she did then her next treatment would be pushed back a week also making it for the day before Christmas. Therefore she opted for the reduced treatment. She is going to have another treatment this Wednesday, December 17th and then she will have a break from them for a while. The doctor explained that while the chemo attacks the cancer it also attacks the rest of her body as well, and she needs to give herself a break and rebuild her immune system before continuing with treatments.
Lisa and Frank came down for Thanksgiving and stayed with Mom until Saturday afternoon. Eric and I were at his aunt's house on Thanksgiving Day, but I spent the day at Mom's visiting with everyone on the Friday after. I think it was a much more pleasant way to spend the day than battling crowds for all the deals at the stores that day! My brother Dane got busted by the game warden for shooting a buck without a buck tag. That was plenty of excitement for the day. Luckily for him they let him off easy. Only a $250 fine. They even let him keep his hunting license! They did, however, confiscate his trophy 10 point buck that he had already gutted. :( But Lisa made sure to take a picture of it as the DNR was driving away with it in the back of their pickup truck! The one that got away...
I ended up leaving work early on a Friday a couple of weeks ago. My ex-brother-in-law called me on my cell phone to tell me that my nephew, Charles, had apparently been hit by a truck while riding his bicycle to school at U-Rock. He asked if I could possibly go be with him in the emergency room. Of course I dropped everything and went right over there. It turns out that Charles was not actually hit by a truck, but rather ran into the side of a van or truck. Apparently he was riding his bike down a steep hill (on the sidewalk) and the truck pulled up in front of him at a stoplight. Charles tried to stop but the brakes failed on his bike and he ran smack into the side of the truck! He ended up with a few stitches and staples on either side of his face near his temples and he broke 3 bones in his face as well - both of his cheek bones and his upper jaw. The plastic surgeon looked at him and it seems that although the bones were broken, they were not displaced. So he did not need surgery. Yay! He also had some bruises on his lungs. He stayed in the hospital for a couple of days, but he was doing really well so they sent him home on Sunday afternoon. He tells me that he is doing just fine now and is back to work and school like normal.
Eric and I went to my ultrasound appointment on November 13th and it seems obvious from the pictures that Baby Paul is a girl! My little princess weighed approximately 14 ounces and was in the 75th percentile for her age. Her heartrate was 146 beats per minute and she looked completely healthy. It seems that she is a good sized little munchkin just like her brother was, so perhaps she will decide to join us a bit earlier than her due date of March 27th. Only time will tell! Now I am faced with the dilemma of finding a name that both Eric and I can agree on. We did decide to keep it a secret until she arrives in case we change our mind. That way something will be left as a surprise for everyone that was so disappointed in us for 'cheating' and finding out the gender in advance. :)
I'm sure I will have plenty of more news to share after the holidays. Until then, Merry Christmas to All!
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