I slept well last night, but my bed keeps calling me back for a nap … I succumbed to a brief rest this morning already and will dive fully into nap mode later this afternoon. Love the weekends.
Cathy and I had a nice walk this morning. She opted to walk the entire walk with me and then go on a run from our house afterwards, rather than break off part-way through our walk to go on her run. That was nice for me, and as a consequence we took a different route for our walk. It is nice to mix it up a bit. We likely are going to start adding an evening walk to our repertoire. We occasionally have been going on a short evening walk, in large part to wake me up after dinner, but we enjoy that walk so much as well that we have decided that we should do it regularly. Fortunately, even when the daytime temperatures are fairly high this time of the year, the mornings and evenings are still nice (that won’t be the case in the middle of summer … July and August).
A good friend of mine, who has posted several times in this guestbook, wrote an article for my hometown online newspaper. His article was based, in part, on last Thursday’s blog. I thought I would share the link with all of you here:http://salinapost.com/2012/04/28/the-moments-lead-to-a-lifetime/. I think you’ll enjoy his insights.
I have a blood draw tomorrow morning, not at Piper but at a local clinic that will fax the results to Piper. The main issue is to check my platelet count to make sure it hasn’t dipped dangerously low. I’m very confident it has not. And I am confident that my count will be > 50,000 when we go to Piper on Thursday of this week for chemo. We are going to be good to go. I just know it.
Dan is busy this weekend writing a comprehensive exam paper for his graduate program at San Diego Sate University. Somehow he is able to manage a full-time job (as a preschool teacher) and take four graduate courses. I don’t know how he does it; I couldn’t do it. He usually calls me during the week while he is driving to campus from his preschool (it is hands-free calling, using his Bluetooth). He is very efficient with his time. He also has been calling me this weekend, despite the pressure of getting this exam paper written by tonight! He is certainly fighting with me each and every step of this ordeal.
Laura came out last night for dinner. It was great to have her here. She spent the night. She slept in and just finished a run in the desert. Like mother, like daughter. It is so nice to have the support of my family. I don’t know what I would do without it. Both of our children are so busy, but they stop to spend time with me. What a gift.
Well, I hear my bed calling, although I think I hear food in the kitchen calling a little bit louder. We’ll do the food first. I sleep better on a full stomach anyway …
I hope your day is as relaxing as mine.