My Life is Good

I hope all is well since the last time I did a blog. I am doing pretty good besides the fact we have a foot of snow now on top of the 6 inches we got last Saturday. I would like to find the global warming idiots and choke the living S#%T out of them. So as you can see by the way I started this blog I am about to go crazy. Let me go over my day so far. Remember that with my lymphoma I am supposed to be stress free. So let's jump into this stress free day. I woke up this morning checking the weather to see if I was going to close work, and wouldn't you know the snow had been coming down for hours and the roads looked bad. So, as the boss with a kid's heart I figured I should close and just stay home.

As I sat in the living room drinking my morning coffee and watching the beautiful snow fall Sandy was in the kitchen making a Peanut Butter Cheesecake. I said to myself "man life is good" about that time Avery woke up and said he wanted to go to his mom's house (and it wasn't even 6:30am). Even though I know my life is good I didn't want to get out of my PJ's and go trekking through the woods, I did and all I could think about was "why did I get out of my PJ's"? It's always hard dropping Avery off and not being able to see him for a couple days, but I understand that his mom has to have her weekends with Avery also.

So anyway, I am heading back home from dropping Avery off and I was thinking "man those PJ's sure are sounding good." about that time my cell phone rang. Yep, Sandy wanted to know whether we had anymore rock salt. In my 24 years of living, I am not sure I have ever run out of rock salt during the winter. Well, scratch that off my list of things not accomplished. My meeting with the PJ's had been pushed back about another 45 minutes but I still was saying "my life is good."

Well, well, well, this is where the stress free day begins. After my snowy adventure through Roanoke I finally made it home and into my PJ's. I decided to do a little work on the computer and eat the yummy meal my wife made for me. You guessed it peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with Cheetos (for breakfast). Man, I can already taste that cheesecake right now. Everything was great until the mailman came by with the literature from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. After reading through this info I received a lot of additional knowledge about my illness and it makes me feel a lot better going forward hoping to cure this disease.

Speaking of curing the disease, "this is where the stress comes" let me go over ALL of the side effects of the anticipated chemo I will be doing:

A. Redness/pain at the place of injection.
B. Blood in urine.
C. Dizziness, confusion, or agitation.
D. Fever, chills, sore throat, MISSED PERIODS, tiredness, and cough.
E. Joint pains, side or stomach pains, and swelling of feet or lower legs.
F. Shortness of breath.

G. Unusual bleeding or bruising, fast heartbeat, black stools, and painful urination.

OH I AIN'T DONE...

H. Sores in mouth and lips, swollen lips, and excessive thirst.
I. Unusually frequent urination, yellow eyes and skin, pinhead-sized red spots on skin or rash.
J. Darkening of skin and fingernails, loss of hair, nausea or vomiting, and diarrhea.
K. Redness of face, headache, sweating, and itching.

THESE ARE ONLY THE COMMON SIDE EFFECTS

It kinda sounds like one of the Viagra commercials. Anyway I am looking forward to the following weeks in getting this thing going but do I really have to have hair loss? Even with all the side effects "my life really is good" and I couldn't do it without my loving family and friends especially Sandy and Avery who I would do anything in this world for. With all that said, I look forward to blogging soon as long one of the side effects don't kick in, especially the "missed periods."