My Wife seems to be doing good …for now

My Wife has been feeling a bit better, at the moment she is not bed ridden, she has been able to be up and move around the house, she is able to breathe on her own without oxygen for extended periods of time (6 hours so far), she felt well enough to cook supper tonight.

And what a supper it was! German sausages, beer battered onion rings, a veggie medley smothered in melted cheese and freshly baked homemade butter buns! My Wife can Cook! oh how I have missed her cooking, I have been the chief cook and bottle washer for the last 4 months, it sure was nice to taste her wonderful cooking again, I really porked out too, I am a meatasaurus, I crave meat, all types of meat, but one of my particular favorites just happens to be my wifes german sausage, I confess I eat it by the pound! I have a thing for veggies too, especially veggies smothered in melted cheese!

Now my wife isn’t cured of her cancer , nor sadly will she be, but she is doing remarkably well, I am amazed at how well she manages her day considering she is on quite the drug cocktail to keep her pain free, she takes Oxycodone twice a day, Morphine three times a day and valium three times a day, that’s just her pain management regime, she also has to take a stool softener, a laxative (because the pain pills block her up) an anti nausea medication and a needle full of Fragmin ( a blood thinner) daily.

How she is even conscious during the day is beyond me! never mind the fact that she gets up and can walk a straight line and make a meal fit for a king .

She is having issues with her potassium levels though, they are too high so she will be getting even more medication to combat that as the levels she has put her at risk for renal failure or a heart attack, this is a side effect of the type of lung cancer she has, it’s rare and called Synovial Sarcoma, it’s usually found in the limbs and rarely in the organs.

She has to be very careful of what veggies she eats as well as what fruits, potassium is her enemy right now, I never was one to watch labels at the grocery store, but now that my wife has become ill I have started reading labels very closely, which means I don’t always get to eat stuff I love, but it’s a small sacrifice if it means keeping my wife alive and well.

Today was a pleasant day, we (wife and I) spent a couple hours sitting at our picnic table enjoying the sun and watching the birds, she likes Robins and Starlings and Tree Swallows, 3 species we have plenty of out here on our little piece of paradise on the prairies.

well it is almost 10:30pm here, I will stop here for tonight, peace be with you all, remember to express your love often and never take tomorrow for granted .

Butch
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