Have a great weekend! Go California Chrome!
Friday, May 16, 2014
The weekend is upon us!
Found this online and loved it. It seemed so appropriate for Brain Cancer Awareness month and for all of the love, support, and prayers that you have surrounded around my family.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Blog 2.0 (3.0? 4.0?)
Greetings, friends! We're back and ready to be better than ever!
Quick update on Hill family happenings:
We sold our house in November and moved into our new home mid-March. We stole a page from the Lexington Polloms' play book and moved in with Todd's parents for the time in between. We are working on getting settled in and much to Will, Claire, and Charlie's dismay, we bought furniture.
Also, our baby turned two. Eek!
In October, Todd started a new job at LG&E (also owns KU, for you Danvillians). He loves it, however should your power ever go out, please don't call him (ahem, Dad..) He is a project manager. He does not shimmy up electrical poles.
Running update:
Claire and I have been doing a 4 mile run at the park behind our house most days. She loves it because it always involves a trip to the playground or sprayground at the end.
Todd, the overachiever, ran the Derby mini in April and beat my personal best with a time of 2:08. Punk.
Friday, May 9, 2014
5/9/14 Update
Let's start with a health update. Not much has changed from the last post. I was supposed to start chemo this week but when I had blood drawn on Monday my platelets were at 78,000 and they need to be at least 100,000 before I can resume the chemo therapy. So we will try again next Monday. The 78,000 number in,and of itself, is not disconcerting. But they can't get too low(20,000 - 30,000).
Our weather has finally changed to spring here and it has been fabulous. Yesterday I attempted to play in a golf scramble to benefit the hospital foundation. The event and the weather were great, my golf game not so much. I got really tired and had to quit after 9 holes. My balance is still not great. I am doing physical therapy twice a week and I need to be more vigilant with my homework. I ran 2 miles this morning and lost 3 more racquetball games this evening. I am getting a little more competitive and maybe by this time next week I will be able to report a win. For those of you who know me well please sit down for this next sentence.
We planning to have most of the family come in next weekend That should be a blast.
All in all it has been another good week. I do need to apologize to anyone who listened to me about the Derby. Actually Marti and I hit a lucky streak and walked away with$148. Again thank you so much for caring and hopefully not being too mad about my Derby "tip"
Happy Mother's Day
Our weather has finally changed to spring here and it has been fabulous. Yesterday I attempted to play in a golf scramble to benefit the hospital foundation. The event and the weather were great, my golf game not so much. I got really tired and had to quit after 9 holes. My balance is still not great. I am doing physical therapy twice a week and I need to be more vigilant with my homework. I ran 2 miles this morning and lost 3 more racquetball games this evening. I am getting a little more competitive and maybe by this time next week I will be able to report a win. For those of you who know me well please sit down for this next sentence.
We planning to have most of the family come in next weekend That should be a blast.
All in all it has been another good week. I do need to apologize to anyone who listened to me about the Derby. Actually Marti and I hit a lucky streak and walked away with$148. Again thank you so much for caring and hopefully not being too mad about my Derby "tip"
Happy Mother's Day
Friday, May 2, 2014
Derby Post
Once again the blog is back. So what's up? On again
off again? Definitely on again. Two reasons:
1. In the last couple of weeks I have heard from one friend I was surprised even remembered me. We played little league baseball together. His dad coached our team. Larry Tagert, it was really good to hear from you again.
I also received a very poignant note from a good friend from high school who ran track with me and we played football together. He was a DB and I was a wide receiver wannabe. Suffice it to say he enjoyed practice a lot more than I did. Cliff Staton was a smallish type who would light you up in a minute. But he also learned to write somewhere along the way, as he sent me a note that made Marti and my daughter and at least one daughter -in law cry.
1. In the last couple of weeks I have heard from one friend I was surprised even remembered me. We played little league baseball together. His dad coached our team. Larry Tagert, it was really good to hear from you again.
I also received a very poignant note from a good friend from high school who ran track with me and we played football together. He was a DB and I was a wide receiver wannabe. Suffice it to say he enjoyed practice a lot more than I did. Cliff Staton was a smallish type who would light you up in a minute. But he also learned to write somewhere along the way, as he sent me a note that made Marti and my daughter and at least one daughter -in law cry.
Since we last visited, on this site a lot has happened. We
are no longer in any clinical trial at Duke, so that monthly trip is no longer
necessary.
The tumor, true to form, has made a recurrence. Just to make sure, Duke did a brain biopsy and it was positive. The plan now is back to chemo 5 days a month and I have had 5 cyber knife radiation treatments, which are absolutely painless but they wiped me out and then I had a seizure. When you put the chemo with the cyber knife with the seizure and you end up with a lot of whining , like the last sentence. No more of that. We have also had some really GOOD news as well. Our youngest son was married to a wonderful young lady on the first of March.
In addition I have a plan to get back to some sort of decent shape. I am attempting to run 2 miles a day, however I am struggling right now. So if I put this in writing I expect you all to hold me to it. I want to run a 5k around Memorial Day and the Bluegrass 10k on the 4th of July in Lexington. Followed by a half marathon this fall.
More posts to come. Daughter Sarah and son Sam have indicated they will help this time. So please hold them accountable as well.
The second reason for the blog restart is daughter Sarah informed me last night that May is brain cancer awareness month. And I know you think I have the Kentucky Derby winner and you are right. The winner will be Intense Holiday.
The tumor, true to form, has made a recurrence. Just to make sure, Duke did a brain biopsy and it was positive. The plan now is back to chemo 5 days a month and I have had 5 cyber knife radiation treatments, which are absolutely painless but they wiped me out and then I had a seizure. When you put the chemo with the cyber knife with the seizure and you end up with a lot of whining , like the last sentence. No more of that. We have also had some really GOOD news as well. Our youngest son was married to a wonderful young lady on the first of March.
In addition I have a plan to get back to some sort of decent shape. I am attempting to run 2 miles a day, however I am struggling right now. So if I put this in writing I expect you all to hold me to it. I want to run a 5k around Memorial Day and the Bluegrass 10k on the 4th of July in Lexington. Followed by a half marathon this fall.
More posts to come. Daughter Sarah and son Sam have indicated they will help this time. So please hold them accountable as well.
The second reason for the blog restart is daughter Sarah informed me last night that May is brain cancer awareness month. And I know you think I have the Kentucky Derby winner and you are right. The winner will be Intense Holiday.
As always thank you so much for
caring enough to slog through this stuff.
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