Monday's are awful

We go in for our chemo treatments on Monday.  What a rough day.  Jake knows he has to go in on Monday's and the anticipation of the thing really is hard for him.  He actually did great when we got in there but it was a brutal morning.  They didn't have to do the bone marrow biopsy which was nice so we were only in there for 2 hours.  It was also nice because he was able to eat in the morning.  He will be able to eat next week before we go in but the week after will be no food after midnight!!!!!  That is going to be an absolute nightmare.  He has been waking up in the middle of the night to eat cereal because he is starving.  He told us all he can do is "think about food...food and pizza."

Monday's are emotionally draining.  I had a hard time yesterday because there was a 5-year old little girl there as well and she had been getting chemo for a year and 4 months...and she's only half way there.  We have such a long road to go.  It can be very draining both mentally and physically.  We do, however, have a great support group and friends and I guess if we have to go through this we are lucky for what we have.  As far as how his week went, it was about the same each day.  He ate and ate and ate!  He did pretty good with his temper for the most part.  We feel like we are on eggshells sometimes but that's o.k.

His results, so far, have all come back very positive.  We are very grateful.  He is such a fighter and very brave.

Heidi and I are doing well.  We are tired but doing pretty well.  I have to go out of town on Wed (tomorrow)-Sun and am pretty worried about how she will do.  Hopefully, everyone that reads this will stop by or call and see how she's doing or maybe take Cole.  (This is my little plug for some help!)  We'll see how things go.  We went up in the  mountains for family night to have dinner and roast marshmallow's and have some pictures.  I will get those posted as well as some others a little later.