My apologies, I had to do a double take when I looked that the last time I posted and update was almost a month ago. Looking at a month like October with it’s 31 days it feels full and long with lots of space to do things both productive and unproductive, but in a blink of an eye (it seems) there is only a sliver of sun left on the month. I don’t like how fast time seems to move these days.
This month was fairly uneventful. There was a pain that started in Rebecca’s left side that led to us getting some scans, but with a report of nothing found and the disappearance of the pain we have chalked it up to the shots she was getting to keep her white blood cell count up. We had treatment number 4 today, and for the first time they said her white blood count was actually kinda high. This is contrast to 2 weeks ago that it was so low they had to get the doctor to sign off on treatment number 3 – was a good thing. Thankfully because the shots 5 times a week were not doing enough they moved her to a single “super shot” (my naming) called Fulphila which is similar to the 5 shots she was getting but seems more effective. The problem that this is solving is that chemo drastically reduces your white blood cells and some other things that could be described as your immune system (I’m over simplifying), so this makes you susceptible to infection and fevers which can run out of control pretty quickly. The medications focus on promoting your bone marrow to produce more white blood cells to help keep your immune system up. If you come down to low they won’t give you chemo.
Rebecca is still pretty normal. She’s definitely more tired these days, and a little weaker, but otherwise is still wanting to work and keep busy with things.
.. and busy we have been – this month has been full we went to a play, had a several day visit from Abigail, went to a nice apple orchard (picture above), decorated our car for a successful trunk or treat at church, a craft fair, some nice date nights, Rebecca has a ministry conference that she attended, Annabelle and I went to fright fest at six flags, and a bunch of other things i’m probably forgetting.
Looking forward – with us being on treatment 4 we are probably a month-ish or 2 away from another scan (the name of which escapes me right now) to see how this chemo is doing in the fight against things. Assuming things continue on track with chemo every 2 weeks I will do an update around Thanksgiving. If anything changes before then I’ll let everyone know.
Rebecca and I celebrate the anniversary of our first date 22 years ago this Friday. 22 years is a lot of time, but I still remember that first date really well. I’m such a lucky man to have snagged such a beautiful and smart girl. I wanted to say how I feel after 22 years with her, but there are just literally not words to describe how much in love we are, and how good that feels. And I’m ok with that, because she knows exactly what I’m not able to describe. And maybe that’s the best non-description I can give.
❤️