It Is Blessed… To Receive?
December 08, 2012
I can’t help but think about this time last year and feel
extraordinarily thankful for where we are this year! On December 2 last year, Derek was admitted to the hospital for acute pancreatitis
that was a reaction to one of his chemo meds.
He got out of the hospital two days before Christmas. Today he is laughing, playing, and full of
energy, and he is HOME! Thank you Lord for walking with us!
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| December 2011. Our view from the acute care room last December. |
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| December 2011. Derek didn't feel like looking at the view. He was knocked out from the pain medications. |
Monday, December 3, 2012
Monday, Derek started the third and last cycle of this first
“Maintenance” phase. When his lab report
came back, we learned that is ANC was only 600.
It was low but within the target levels. He had to be sedated for a
lumbar puncture (LP) where they take spinal fluid to test for leukemia relapse in
his central nervous system, and then they give spinal chemo to hopefully
prevent it. He has now had 19 LP’s, but
every time he is sedated for it, I still worry just a bit. Thankfully, he has never had a complication. We also learned that over the last three
months, Derek has grown one inch! And he had grown nearly one inch in the previous three months. Wow! He is growing as fast as his hair is! No wonder all his pants are getting too
short!
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Kristen played for her Christmas piano recital. Here she is with her wonderful piano teacher Helen LaiPang.
November 2012
My sister and her two children came to visit in
November. It was such fun to have them
here, especially after not seeing them for two years! We took a couple outings with them to the California
Science Center
to see the space shuttle Endeavor, and to Crystal
Cove State Beach
for tide pooling. The highlight of the
tide pools was a small octopus that stole a pair of sunglasses and didn’t want
to give them back. The octopus was more
interested in the glasses than it was in anything else, and came all the way out
of its den to try to get them. Maybe
those cartoons of octopuses with sunglasses on aren’t so far from reality!
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| Octopus in the center reaching for the sunglasses in lower right corner. |
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