This week was crazy. Monday was the last day of the month, which meant I had a lot of work to do at school. Also after coming back to work and school after a week off, was just hard and long
Tuesday things started to get off with josh. But I had physical therapy in the morning, which is helping as it seems to be my hip is the problem now and not my knee. while I’m glad to go and get this problem figured out, I hate taking the time to go. I ended up picking up max from school and hanging out trying to help Josh feel better. We did go to Gilda’s which was important for us. That helped me a lot , but not so much for Bella. They watched inside out.. poor girl can’t handle that movie.. she cries through it. thankfully the counselors saw this and let her take a break and go do something else instead.
Wednesday Josh and I drove back into Madison to take Max to the dentist. Finally he had a good appointment there. He was a real big boy and let them clean his teeth with chocolate cookie toothpaste, then floss them and let the dentist look at them too. So as a treat he got to go to Cabela’s with mommy and daddy. There he got fudge.. great reward huh? He was so excited though. He loved being there and checking out the fishes. He also got a kids telescope. Then we zoomed home to get our lunch packed and head to school/work. Max’s biggest treat was getting to come to “mama’s work” it was fun having him at work with me. Then I also got to see Bella too, one nice perk of the job. Josh went out hunting for a bit and had his labs drawn. I got home that night and he was pretty miserable and just didn’t bother to tell me soon. Oh Men!
Thursday was the start of some bad times. Took the kids to school and then went to talk to my on demand therapist while Josh was talking to someone. Then we left to go to the doctor’s appointment. We kind of thought this might be a not so good one since Josh was all swollen. Turns out we were right. We got rushed up to the hospital to get a CT scan done. I guess we did stop home first and grabbed me some food before going up to the hospital. We then went out for a late lunch early supper for Josh while waiting to hear about the CT scan. We waited all night and never heard anything. Trying to figure out if that was good news or bad news. They did give us some medicine to help josh loose the water weight. . It was a long long night! Thankfully my mom took the kids back to her house after school and work was very understanding about me not coming in. It was hard to tell them I couldn’t come in, but my head was in place to be responsible for kids. We picked up the kids from my mom’s and then headed home to try to be “normal” totally not telling the kids anything until we knew more. We also didn’t tell anyone, which was hard since everyone was waiting to find out if Josh was getting chemo.
Friday was the worst. I took Bella to school and then we took Max to his 4 year check up. we skipped shots since we were short time and he was freaking out after the flu shot 2 months ago. He came in at 34.5 pounds and 41inches.. that’s a 2lb and 6 inch increase in a year! Then we raced him to speech and thankfully he was wiling to go without us, so I could take Josh back home to rest before his noon doctor’s appointment. I had to tell work I wouldn’t be in again until after 3 at the earliest. I got max back from speech and Josh rested while I worked on staying busy. We left in time for us to meet my mom at the clinic to get max and use to make it to the noon appointment. Then we got the news we didn’t want to hear, but kind of figured was coming. We were left to think about some opinions and we went to lunch. I told work I wouldn’t be in. There was just too much going on in my head. We ended up going back to talk to the doctor and I think figured out a better plan for the next thing to try. All of it’s a trail and error as there is no right or wrong way to handle this cancer. My mom ended up picking up Bella for us and we spent some alone time which we don’ot really get to do. We went out to a movie and then supper…slowest service ever which was annoying since I just wanted to get home. We picked up a kids and attempted to get everyone to bed.. only neither Josh nor I could sleep every well. So happy the next day was Saturday.
