Home Again

After our late night arrival, I was up and at work on Tuesday morning. It was good to see my kids again but I am reminded how much energy it takes to do my job. This class is a challenging group. Today two of my most difficult returned. With lives in transition and parents unsettled, these kids have a lot of anger. They are obstinate and don't want to follow rules. And both have ways of throwing fits. It wears me out and every evening at 7:00 seems like 10:00. I hope I will get back up to speed soon.

Dad is at home and is staying in the front part of the house with the door closed. Carmi has been here but will take off the next three days. I really want this arrangement to work out. It is a type of stress to live under Dad's nosy eyes, but I prefer it to the running around I would have to do if he were elsewhere.

You were tired on Tuesday. Monday had been a big day and the effects of jet lag can't be discounted. You went for a thirty-minute bike ride with me after school. We both needed that. But Wednesday was another day of 'resting' for you.

Wednesday we went back to our cancer support groups at the Wellness Community. That made for a long day for me, and you had chosen to take the computer in for repairs at Fry's. The good news was that they were able to get our computer fixed for free. The bad news was that the Crown Victoria threw a spark plug on the freeway coming home, you had to get towed, and you were over forty-five minutes late for your group meeting.

Today you were to start chemo again. You did your regular blood work yesterday and when you were to start chemo this afternoon, they said your white blood count was too low. Apparently it's a common result of chemo, and when it happens, they can't administer your chemo. They sent you home with four days of some kind of shot to boost your whites. They hope your numbers will be high enough to resume intravenous chemo next Thursday. In the meantime you have the Tarceva tablets you will take daily.