Three Months Later

The last 3 day weekend of the summer has been a helluva lot better than the first 3 day weekend of the summer.

This past week I did 5 days of, as Sarah calls it, big boy chemo. I actually came through it ok, with only some fatigue. I am now on a 23 day stretch where I do not take any chemo, and then I start over again. Marti and Sarah both think it is somewhat funny that I am on a 28 day cycle. What passes for humor in this family is beyond belief.

Also on Friday I spent 6 hours at the UK Clinic undergoing test for diabetes insipidus. Since I completed radiation I have been very thirsty much of the time and making frequent trips to the bathroom. My glucose and other diabetes indicators were normal. However apparently diabetes insipidus can result from head trauma and disrupts hormones that should be secreted into the blood system. (For those of you reading this blog for the first time, I was a Political Science major, not Biology. For the actual facts about diabetes insipidus, look it up.). I will get the results tomorrow, but even if I have it, it appears to be easily controlled.

The rest of the weekend has been great. Marti and I went to a family wedding in Indiana and Roberta and Bob both made it up as well. I will say my sister is absolutely becoming more like her mother every day. We decided to stop at a Farmers Market to pick up some flowers to take to the cemetery, Roberta said she would pay for them and then announced to everyone at the Farmers Market she was getting these for her brothers as well and it was costing her $12. Being subtle is not her strong suit so I hand over $4. I don't think Bob ever paid up.

Sunday we stopped by and went to church with Sarah, Todd and Sam and to a great brunch at Ramsi's in Louisville. Sunday night was dinner with good friends.

Today I ran 7 miles in a slow, steady rain. It was about 65 degrees and perfect. This afternoon is shaping up to be Cubs on the couch.

Thanks for caring.