Why Play With Toys When You Can Unwrap Butter?

That's Jordan unwrapping the butter. He's mostly back to himself after being sick all week. His current past times are getting out whatever kind of food he can and making as big of a mess as he can before discovered, throwing things down the stairs, writing on the furniture, crumpling up homework assignments, and opening the packages of expensive medical supplies.

Chemo starts on Thursday. That's a little earlier and puts us on schedule to be done on June 3rd. Please pray that it is so.

Round 5

It's hard for me to write the next entry and move past the Palm Desert pictures. I sat in the freezing rain at Luke's soccer game wishing we were back. Jordan finished his 5th round of this newer chemo and did really well with it. He currently has a cough that is keeping us all up at night and hasn't been too happy the last couple days, but the chemo didn't seem to bother him much at all. This is why I put out a proposal to our nurse practitioner, to bump up the next 3 rounds so we get to the end sooner. The chemo doesn't seem to bother him as much as all the other things that surround it. My current plan puts him finished on June 3rd. I'm sure I'm driving everyone at the clinic crazy since we have been doing this so long, and I think I can be kind of a know-it-all. I've given up my PT job to become an oncology nurse, just no degree. Hopefully soon, I'll just be a mom.

Golfcarts and Waterslides

We're back and had a great time. It was around 80 degrees the whole time. Jordan had so much fun. His highlights were going in the golf cart with Papa to get popcorn "corn" and lemonade "ade" at the clubhouse. It was a morning ritual. His other highlight was the waterslide at the Marriot (our good friends were staying there). When he hit the water, he said "more!" Anyways, it was a much needed getaway and everyone was happy.

It is hard to come back to cancerland. I liked the warm weather, perfectly manicured yards and breakfast awaiting me in the morning. Things aren't quite so perfect here, but we are plugging away at his treatment and getting closer to the end, so I guess we'll just have to perservere.