Is it Sunday already??

The last few days have flown by--- Grier is doing very well at home!! He likes to play in the yard, hitting baseballs and driving his truck- We all went to Grace's basketball game-- which was fun-- it is hard to believe that going places as a party of five is not the norm at our house anymore--!! Sometimes I even catch myself at a restaurant counting!! Also, he has discovered he has hair coming in!!! You should have seen him go to the mirror and look at the black shadow on his head! He said that was cool!

We do have a plan right now--- Grier and I will leave around 7:30 on Tuesday night to fly back to NYC-- We are scheduled on Corporate Angels-- That used to not make me as nervous-- but now that we have had flights cancelled a few times- it actually stresses me out!!! OK-- I admit it!! I do get stressed thinking about all this-- We will get to NY late Tuesday night and go to clinic and get cleared for anesthesia on Wednesday morning sometime-- He will have his radiation set-up after that and be done with the first round-- Thursday through the following Friday will be twice a day-- 7:30 am and then again around 1:30-- Then we will have the weekend off and start 3F8 again on the 11th!! Probably home around the 16th-- if everything goes like it is suppose to-- :)


We have been busy but have had time to slow down too-- Jeff and I had a great low-key night with Katherine and Andy-- And I am going to a movie with some friends today--

***On a side note
I read something the other day and I wanted to adapt it to our life-- So many people tell me they do not know how we are doing this-- and I just say there is no choice-- You drop everything and just do it-- I’ll admit…sometimes this is tough. There, I said it. OK…I’ll add to it…sometimes it’s really tough. The stress of trying to act normal in front of your child in a completely abnormal world; the stress of waiting for test results; the stress of keeping up with work and a house so many miles away; the stress of not letting anything fall through the cracks from grocery shopping to bill paying; the stress of watching your child writhe in pain during antibody treatment even though you know that treatment is helping him; the stress of having to hold him down to get a painful injection; the stress of hearing about other children who are not doing well; the stress of not feeling like you’re doing enough, fast enough to help find a cure; the stress of trying to let things just roll down your back and not let them get to you; the stress of answering questions all the time about NB trying to not let Grier, Hayes, or Grace overhear something out of context! And of course all these things do not just apply to us but to any family dealing with cancer with their children-- We are very lucky to have a great support group that has given us what we need to get through this day by day!