For those that don’t know, our son had a large brain tumor and had surgery January 7th 2013 to remove it, the surgery was a success and other being partially blind in his right eye and left an emotional wreck he is doing just fine, he is now 13 years old and in grade 8, he loves school and is an almost straight A student.
February 28 ,2014 my wife was diagnosed with stage 4 (end stage) Lung Cancer,and for the last 8 months she has been in and out of the Cancer center receiving Chemo, we almost lost her back in early March,She is on a 2 month break from the Cancer center and doesn’t have to go back until November 25th for a CT-Scan.
So know you can understand why I have my quiet reservations, after 2 years of constant Hospitals and doctors, and almost losing the 2 people who mean more to me than my own life itself, I find it very difficult to be overly optimistic or to let my guard down,I watch over them like a hawk, I ask both of them how they are feeling and doing multiple times per day, every day.
But at the moment our son is doing so well he doesn’t require bi monthly appointments with his counsellor, he is holding his own quite well and seems happy and able to cope with life quite well.
My wife is also doing very well, she only uses her oxygen machine at night when she sleeps, she’s got good control of any pain with twice daily doses of both Morphine and Oxycodone, she is doing so well that she now can share our bed (first time in 8 months) and we are getting back some normalcy in our lives.
This is all great news, but I still can’t bring myself to relax and get complacent, I worry about every little cough or sneeze, I worry that our son will bring home some virus (cold or flu) and I will have to have him stay at a friends until he is better because my wife’s immune system is so severely compromised from all the Chemo, I worry about me getting sick and not being able to look after them or drive her to her many doctor appointments, the rule around this house is if you have a cough you can’t come in, if you have a sneeze you can’t come in, we ask that you wash your hands for at least 60 seconds with soap and water every time you use the washroom (surprisingly many folks don’t do this) and to use hand sanitizer before touching food or while working in the kitchen.
To say I am somewhat stressed would be an understatement, I keep a full tank of gas in the car and the doctors on speed dial. But despite this, I do enjoy spending quality time and conversing with my wife and our son, I stay positive and upbeat for them and listen with a smile as my wife talks about next year being a better year for us all.
So far everything seems to be coming up roses, and I would like for it to stay that way for awhile, I seriously need to decompress and relax a bit and be able to enjoy life being relatively normal for us at the moment.
I blog quite abit about many different things, some are light hearted some a tad more serious, and yes I’ll be posting more recipe’s again in the next little while, I blog for many reasons, one being it is my therapy, I’d go nucking futs if I couldn’t blog!! another reason is, I want the world to know about my wife and son (and I guess me) and how happy they make me and what a blessing each of them are to everyone they meet. I want the world to know that,yes, it is possible to find and marry your soul mate and to love someone more than life itself, it doesn’t just happen in fairy tales, it happens in real life too ,but unfortunately the outcome is not like the fairy tales, in real life the two lovers don’t always live happily ever after, no matter how hard they pray for it to be. I want the world to know that same sex couples can and do raise perfectly normal heterosexual children. I want the world to know that same sex marriages are not the end of heterosexual marriages and in fact have zero impact on them at all. There are lots more reasons that I blog,and if you stick around for the long haul those reasons will reveal themselves.
Anyway, that’s all for tonight folks, so remember :express your love often,never take tomorrow for granted,and be kind to others.
Butch
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