Sorry for the non-creative title, there just doesn't seem to be a theme to this update. There has been lots of activity around the Behler household in January and early February. Miranda was home last week for three days of weather related school cancellations. I'm not going to lie, I was happy about it because it gave me a chance to hang out with her one on one while Laela was working. We took some time and went out to breakfast together and just hung out for a few days it was awesome. Miranda's basketball team is also playing well, she brought home a decent report card, and has been accepted for admission to Bishop Watterson High School. **sniff sniff** My baby is getting all growed up.
We survived the 'icepocalypse' but our trees lost lots of branches around the house. One of them was about as big around as my arm and about eight to ten feet long. It snapped off of the tree in the front yard, bounced off of our power line and landed two feet behind the van. Luck was with us though as we didn't lose power nor did any damage occur to the house or our vehicles.
On January 16th we travelled to Cincinnati to celebrate my father's 63rd birthday and then the following weekend the family had their annual Christmas get together. Yes, it was a month late but better late than never. It's always a good
time getting together with everybody. One of the fun things about this year's event was that many of my aunts and uncles brought old family photos to share, so we ended up with some gems like this one.
Now onto my health and my treatment. Sleep, sleep, and more sleep. I think that is the safe and accurate way to describe my infusion weeks now. It used to be that I'd be tired for a couple of days and then bounce back and be fine. Now it seems that on weeks that I get my medicine I'm in bed for 18 hours a day for five days. Combine that with some wicked heartburn and it makes for a really nasty week. The following week my immune system is worn down and I'm terribly paranoid about getting sick. I don't want to end up in the hospital again for something stupid that I could have prevented. To that end, I am pretty much sequestering myself in the house to give my body a chance to rebound from the therapy. The week after that I'm usually good to go. In fact, right now I feel awesome. This cycle I get an extra week off too because my oncologist has been selected for some kind of panel on national cancer policy and he'll be out of town. I'm pretty excited about the extra week off. I'll also be having a CT scan on February 18 so we can see what kind of progress we've made now that I'll be four cycles into the treatment.
To pass the time at home I've been trying to read some more and have gotten into watching movie marathons. So far I've done an X-Men marathon, an Indiana Jones marathon, and as a family we've been doing a Pixar marathon. We're watching all of the Pixar movies in order of release date. Next up on the marathon list are Batman, Spider-Man, and Lord of the Rings trilogy. Off topic, Miranda and I also watched Flash Gordon on one of her snow days this week. One of the first things that she asked me was: "Did Lady Gaga direct this movie?"
This evening we're having some friends over for our annual taco night (that just happens to coincide with the National Football League's championship game).
I'm also starting to get spring fever and am formulating some ideas about a trip. To that end, I'm also in the process of finding a mechanic to get Wheezy back into running order. Right now I'm toying with the ideas of either finishing October's trip properly or riding to the Florida Keys. The problem with riding to the Florida Keys is that I have to ride through the rest of Florida to get there.
I guess I had more to write about than I thought. I've been feeling like I don't have anything relevant to write about, thus the long pauses in between blog updates. Looks like I was wrong.
