We add a new meaning to Fast Sunday with our post radiation and chemo experiences. Mom continues to be very nauseated and is keeping nothing down. Today they will start TPN and are telling her that it is OK not to eat anything for the next couple of weeks because she will be too sick and have no appetite. As one nurse put it,"We will bring you to deaths door and then bring you back to life again." Sounds really fun doesn't it? She remains ever the trooper, never complaining ,still insisting on her daily shower, and still doing her workout to keep herself as fit and strong as possible. We have finally got them to introduce some more anti-nausea meds and we hope that will help. Now that we are approaching 48 hours post chemo the Dr. assures us that the nausea should start to subside. We continue to plug away at our book club selection, "Teacher Man" and played a number of hands of "Kings Corners" a card game taught us by our Recreational Therapist. We started getting our immunesuppresent drugs today and so are now a 24 hour slave to the IV pump. Mom's white count is down to .3 and so we have been made prisoners to our room for at least the next two weeks until her counts begin to recover.
As always we are MOVING FORWARD WITH FAITH!!
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Hendricksons Never Say Can't!
The Hendros
We are 26 wild and crazy guys! Follow us on our journey as we navigate our way through this unpredictable life. When our mom was diagnosed with Leukemia we all rallied around to support one another and help her fight this disease, all the while chanting our mantra- Hendricksons Never Say Can't! See how life unfolds in our day to day updates on platelets, dialysis, creatinine, hair loss, and all the love and craziness that goes with it!
Why we Can...
Ever since we were little our mom has been singing a song. A song that always seems to crop up whenever you are frustrated, tired, depressed, or cranky. Sometimes it would buck you right up, and other times it would make you want to throw a book at her face. Either way, it has been engrained in our memory and is so much a part of us that I don't think we can remember a time when we were ever allowed to utter the word "can't"...
HENDRICKSONS NEVER SAY CAN'T
Hendricksons never say can't
Can't is not our word
Can't is simply absurd
We say, "I'll try,
I'll try with all my might.
I'll try and try
And try and try
I won't give up the fight!"
Hey, she never claimed to be a lyricist. But you gotta admit...it's catchy!
HENDRICKSONS NEVER SAY CAN'T
Hendricksons never say can't
Can't is not our word
Can't is simply absurd
We say, "I'll try,
I'll try with all my might.
I'll try and try
And try and try
I won't give up the fight!"
Hey, she never claimed to be a lyricist. But you gotta admit...it's catchy!
The Sha-Sha Classics Club introduces Book #2
"What's up, Quasimodo?"
If you've ever heard this from someone and wondered what it meant, then it's time you pick up the next book in the Sha-Sha Classics Club, "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" by Victor Hugo. It promises to be a fun read full of love, adventure, and freaks of naure. So get yourself out of the bell tower and into a Borders and never let someone get away with literary slander again!
Please Note: Dro and Loubige will try and convince you that the author is actually Alexander Dumas. Don't believe them. You will end up in the Dumasses book club, which is one place you definately don't want to be.
If you've ever heard this from someone and wondered what it meant, then it's time you pick up the next book in the Sha-Sha Classics Club, "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" by Victor Hugo. It promises to be a fun read full of love, adventure, and freaks of naure. So get yourself out of the bell tower and into a Borders and never let someone get away with literary slander again!
Please Note: Dro and Loubige will try and convince you that the author is actually Alexander Dumas. Don't believe them. You will end up in the Dumasses book club, which is one place you definately don't want to be.
more ways to waste your time...
3 comments:
I was reading an article in USC's family magazine and this man said that his son learned that "Fight On!" was more than just a bumper sticker slogan on a BMW in Orange County. He said, "It is a way of life, to always have faith, to passionately persevere, to never give up!" To Sharon & Blaine and to the whole family: You epitomize that statement! Fight On!
I hope mom can feel our love and prayers carrying her forward. I wish she didn't have to feel so wretched. I think of her every moment of every day.
I echo Steph's setiments. And add you, pops, to all my thoughts and prayers. You two are both so strong and amazing. You are teaching us all lessons that can be learned in no other way, unfortunately or fortunately, I'm not sure. Either way this fight is one for the books and reminds me to never complain or start for a second to feel sorry for myself. I love you.
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