Well another week has ended. I am actually feeling like I am able to get more done in a week. Yesterday I had to see the heart specialist....and while he says my heart is under stress...I do not have congestive heart failure. Lots of water retention so double the lasix and potassium. It is all due to the Gleevec I think. If the Leukemia doesn't kill me I am sure the treatment might. Just teasing although it feels like it at times. Next Mon. I send more blood to Stanford. I have mixed feelings about this...if the blood work is better then I have to have a bone marrow test...if not then more medicine and time. I have to take the medicine anyways... I am scared about the bone marrow...I never have been one to like pain and not much has changed.
I have started making plans for the next few months. It helps keep the depression at bay and gives me something to look forward to. So after Easter, we shall get on the road and take a vacation...hopefully for several weeks and end up in TX the beginning of May for two kids graduations! I am very proud of all the hard work they both have put into their education...the money too.
The La Honda house is rented again. Larry has been working weeks and weeks to get it ready. Still has a few more weeks but hopefully before March is up he will be done. He put in a new bamboo floor in the loft bedroom up front. Looks cool with all the stripes. He is having Jim come up and help clean up the entry way and gravel the driveway.
It is also Fri. so date night is tonight. We go in the back office which is attached to our bedroom and eat dinner without the kids, watch a movie and then get in the hot tub. The rule of thumb is, no blood or guts don't interrupt.