Thoughts From Serenity

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Got out and back in! Hurrah

Well, I actually got into this blog and then signed out and believe it or not.....I got back in! I think I've got it!!
Sure do miss family. It is cold, lonesome and too quiet around here with Dave not speaking much and not feeling good. Oh how I would love to take Scruffy for a nice pontoon boat ride!! Well.....if it was 80 degrees and not zero with snow on the ground! I hate being "shut" in.
But the blogger kept me company today !!

Valentine's Day SNOW

We sure had a lot of snow! I am trying to post a picture on my blog...lets see if it works. I really am not sure how to do this. Can't find where you can change your
picture that is the profile....hummmmm? Maybe later! This
is enough of a challenge for today.

I did it...I think

Well I finally got to my blog....by changing my e-mail from my pwrtc acct to a yahoo acct. So now I hope it works. Will see! I need to try and find out how to put my picture instead of a dogs picture on my profile! I also need to see if I can re-open this when I look for it next time.
Lots more snow last last night and roads are slippery now. By tomorrow hopefully they will all be cleared and okay for traffic. I'll find out on my way to church. Monday is our big day...starting radiation. I hope Dave doesn't get too sick from the radiation. He has been really sick this week. Hardly was out of bed except to eat and do a little computer work, watch a little tv and then back to bed. Most of the mouth sores are gone now, except a bad one by the lower bottom back tooth. I am wondering if it might be a tooth infection instead of amouth sore. ? Guess we will ask the doc on Monday when we go. We are seeing another doctor after the radiation meeting at 11:30. Dr. AlMacki...at 3:45. He is the nephologist and the one that is concerned about the kidneys, needing dialysis, etc. I think Dr. Kahn ("coach") is the one that decided he would rather try radiation than put the stents into the kidneys from the back or go on to dialysis right away Hope he is right.
Well...now that I got in...let's see if I can post this, get out and perhaps even get back in!!
Thanks Stacey for trying to help...I am not sure if I messed it up more..or if it is fixed now! As long as I can find my Yahoo account I will be okay!
Later...

Monday, February 12, 2007

hello?

Boy, do I need help

I have been trying for about 4 days now to work on this Blog. I would like to enter some thoughts, but couldn't even find the "dashboard" until now! I finally went to Blogger help and at leat got this far. I would like to change my personal page picture and be able up upload pictures that I have taken with my camera that are in my computer. But I am a long way from being able to do that I think. I must just be a little brain dead. My heart and head are not working together these days. Dave has been sick and literally in bed most of each day now for the last week. We went to the cancer doctor last week and he cannot have any chemo until they get the kidneys fixed which means he has to have radiation first to shrink the tumor and/or tumors that are causing the blockage of the kidneys. He is nausious all the time, has a horrible sore throat - can't talk and can't hardly swallow. Not sure if it is infection or the cancer tumors growing. I can see the tumors in his jaws and under his chin. He will have to have 25 days of radiation before they can get back to chemo to shrink the tumors in his face. I sometimes wonder just how long he really has and how sick he is really going to be before this thing takes him out. He is pretty cranky these last few days because he feels just awful. He sleeps most of the time, but does get up and work at his computer and comes downstairs to try to eat...although nothing sounds good and it is hard for him to swallow. I am just hoping it is an infection and this ammoxicillan will wipe it out. Only has one more pill for tomorrow and he doesn't seem any better yet. Of course, we are expecting from 10 to 15 inches of snow tomorrow and Wednesday! And Wednesday is supposidly when we go to Lafayette for radiation. Not going to happen if this blizzard happens because our roads get so much wind blowing across that they become a whiteout.
Well...I have at least posted something! Even if it isn't good thoughts. Hope I can log in again some other time. I tried to do the switch to the Google account, but I don't think it worked. I think I am too old, too tired and too dense to learn this new stuff.
Enough for now.