November News...

John was able to go out Saturday to celebrate his mom's birthday! It was great to spend some time with him other than at dialysis, chemo, or doctor appointments! This week is going to be crazy because he has appointments every day! Monday Wednesday and Friday are his regular dialysis Tuesday chemo and Thursday a ROOT CANAL! Jeeze! But we do have some good news to report. His blood pressure is great! The nephrologist (kidney doctor) really worked at getting that under control ~ by challenging him in removing lots of fluid during treatments and changing his meds around. But now that it is back in the healthy range he is able to start to slowly reduce his meds for blood pressure! The biggest side effect that John has with chemo is extreme fatigue. It also makes him feel achy all over and uncomfrontable but he is really trying to stay focused on the end result! Another positive is that John will be having his next two treatments for chemo here in the valley! We were going to Tucson every week ~ that ends up to being gone for almost 12 hours! Now it is 15 minutes from our house! The 8th treatment will be back in Tucson on December 1st. John will be having a CT scan done before that treatment and we will meet with Dr. Brown to see how the cancer is reacting to the treatment.
Thanks to all that have and continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers!

Friends!

Greg and Linda Zehring have been so great with weekly devotions and monthly cards full of encouragement and love! They always seem to send us something just at the right time! We are so blessed to have them in our lives! Thanks ~ We love you guys!

Halloween Half Bride Half Corpse

This was one fun costume ~ thank goodness my mom can sew! This is Alaina's attempt to get both what she wanted and what dad wanted! She wanted scary dad wanted sweet beautiful... Somehow I don't think he got what he wanted at all! It was fun though with lots of detail! It was a fun Halloween, but we missed trick or treating with dad ~ he wasn't feeling up to walking around this year... We are already planning for next year's costume! Don't throw your sewing machine away Nana

She looks so pretty, but check out the "other side"

The scary side!

They cracked me up ~ such pretty girls such scary faces!

Last Mud Day of 2009

Alaina and Julia love to play in the mud, but it got a bit too cold when it came to cleaning off ~ yes that has to happen before they come in to shower! Even though it was still in the 80's washing off with a hose gets a little chilly so this is the last mud day for 2009! ~ Sorry girls there is always next year!