Blogging in B Minor

Our entire house has been sick!  I’m sure this all started with my cold last week.  As you know, I paused chemotherapy again beginning last Saturday.  I called my GP on Monday and he prescribed azithromyicin – a 5-day course.  That seemed to clear it up but as of Wednesday I started into a deeper cough but not as constant.  I spoke with my neuro-oncologist and we agreed to stay off of chemo until next Wednesday providing labs that I will take on Monday come back ok.  If my cough remains, then I’m not sure what we will do.

In the meantime the cold spreads like the London fog!  Early on Thursday morning, Aidan comes into our room crying and coughing – the cough sounding like a seal (obviously croop).  All he could say in between coughing and crying was that his cough was scaring him – poor guy.  It scared me out of bed too.  About that time, Rachael wakes up and says “Mark, I need help.”  Hmmmm, ok, no problem.  I get up.  60 seconds later, Keegan starts crying in his room.  Wow – the train has left the station and I don’t even have my slippers on yet!  I thought to myself, “I say it all the time, be grateful for every day, but this might be a day that I am just a little tiny bit less grateful for – time to put on my slippers.”

I will spare you the details but the first 1-2 hours were, shall we say challenging.  Rachael felt bad all day long.  The day before, Keegan had been to the doctor and was diagnosed with a double ear infection – started on antibiotics.  Aidan was missing Breakaway at Bayside Church, a great 4-day summer camp and at home – albeit the healthier of the bunch.  Cough-drop for Aidan, Scooby-Doo movie.  Check.  Rachael in bed, pillows and covers over head, ear plugs in and dead to the world.  Check. Keegan, well – we won’t go there.  Check.  Meanwhile, I’m telecommuting so I was fielding emails and when they did nap, I was able to work on some key items for the office.

In the end, I rested at 7:00pm – that was special.  But that’s the way the day was.  I ended up spending some of the evening putting some home movies on the computer and started to build a DVD of Keegan from birth to 11 months that I’ve been wanting to start.  It’s coming out pretty good.  That was a good release for me.

I will say, and Rachael and I talked about it today – it was this time last year that the day was growing near (9 days from now, June 29, 2007) that my craniotomy was planned and it was 2 weeks after that when Keegan was born on July 13, 2007.  The point?  This day wasn’t so bad!  It puts things in perspective – our trial.  We can march through anything really. 

This weekend we will try to recharge our batteries and rest up for next week.

Subscribe by Email RSS Subscription