Ok let's try this.  Normally I write from my desktop at home, which often means that I have to have enough motivation to actuallt switch the computer on! (I can go days without feeling the need to do that)

So here I am sitting in my infusion chair, actually posting from my iPhone.

This is the first time using the port, and the nurse did have some difficulty with the initial flush of saline, but blood has been drawn and saline is flowing in.

The past couple of weeks I've been feeling pretty strong, almost as if I wasn't dealing with cancer treatments, I wondered if it wasn't just the delay in my taxotere infusion, but I'm starting to feel weak,   and it's just before the infusion.  My vision is also blurred.  I'll let you know if anything shows up when the blood test comes back.

Weight has been up quite a bit, so much so that I've been reluctant to report it, but it was 272.8 lbs this morning.

Mike Gets His Dolphins

The Younger Mike

Mike had told me he was supposed to get his dolphins yesterday (which is a nice day to remember such an event.)  Congrats Mike!

Got the Christmas Tree a Little Early

Yesterday we decided to cut our Christmas tree from Penland Farm in South Carolina.  Anne and I were there last year to pick out a tree while the rest of the family was in Ohio.  But this year, it was just myself, Laura and Mathew.

Normally, I take the day off work, and let the kids out of School for the Feast of Immaculate Conception, and then we get the tree and decorate the house for Christmas.

This year, because I have been missing so much work due to treatments, (I should talk about the port that was installed Friday as well) we just decided to get the tree on the weekend, and will light it Tuesday.  Though I may light it tonight.

I enjoy getting our trees from Penland, which has been in business since 1966, but this year it seemed they over sold quite a bit, there was a lot of empty land and a lot of very young trees.  But then again, if they've been at it since '66, I would assume they know how to manage their cycle.

I wasn't planning on getting down on the ground to cut the tree this year. Though this was the warmest day I've ever cut a tree, I still didn't want to get down to the ground. So this was Matthew's first Christmas tree to cut.

We had to walk a good deal to get to the Mint Cypress we finally selected.  It was a bit more walking that I was prepared to do, and on the way back to the barn, I was easily out paced by a young mother caring a toddler!  I still feel like I'm catching my breath from yesterday.

When we made it home, I rolled the tree off the roof of the car into my chest - hitting my newly installed port pretty hard - OUCH!

Well we cut the bottom, pulled it inside and set it in the dining room.  We have a nice trey ceiling, and we needed that little space as the tree was a bit bigger that I anticipated, but honestly it's just the right size.