Finally.....

Finally another post, I know... The past few weeks have been misrable with Brian and I both having pneumonia. I got sick first and even with me quarantining myself in the bedroom for over a week and Brian staying in the living room the entire time, he still managed to get sick. We were as careful as we could be and even the dr laughed at us when we told him all the precautions we took. My parents came down for a week to help take care of us and make sure we were eating well (all parents must think their children starve without them). They helped out a lot and let Brian and I catch up on our sleep and try to get better. Brian was supposed to go back into the hospital last week while they were here for his 4th round of chemo, but since he was sick, the dr put him on some meds and wanted to wait until he got better. My dad even helped take him to the ER at 3 am when he had a 102 temp. After a few weeks, Brian and I are finally starting to feel somewhat better again and the dr put him back in the hospital yesterday.

Admissions days are always long days. We got to the hospital at 10:30 am and didn't get admitted into a room until 9:30 pm. Apparently the hospital was at 100% capacity, so we had to sit around and wait on someone to leave. My proudest accomplishment was working an entire 550 piece puzzle all by myself while waiting all afternoon for the blood results and to see the dr. I know, I'm pathetic, but when you have to sit hours in uncomfortable chairs anything to keep your mind off the boredom starts to look good. Brian has the 4 day chemo this time, but it is typically a lot harder on his body and he has harsher side effects. He is still having the really bad migraines everyday, but at least while he is in the hospital they can give him iv meds that usually work a little better than the pill meds he can take at home. He had yet another lumbar punture today and is currently recuperating from that. This whole process is really starting to wear on both of us. The stress and pressure from everything that is going on makes it more and more difficult to try to stay upbeat and positive on a daily basis. He is only halfway done and the shear boredom of everything starts to get to you after a while. We are continually trying to come up with new things to do to keep our minds active and take advantage of the free time we have.

Hopefully we will get out of the hospital on Monday. We aren't very excited about having to watch the Super Bowl in the hospital (go Cowboys, wait, go Packers, who's playing again??). This is the first year that I have actually cared more about the commercials than the game. And this will be the only time I will ever actually want the Patriots to win anything. We really really hope that we will be able to go home to Dallas after this round. We say that everytime, but so far Brian hasn't been up for a 5 hour ride in the car with how he is feeling. We miss our house, dog, friends, etc and can't believe we have been down here over 2 and a half months already. After this round he will be halfway done with the chemo and will only have 4 more rounds to go. We are looking forward to him being cured by May so he can be back just in time to have a depressing over the hill 30th birthday (just kidding).

We hope everyone had a great month and I'm sorry for taking so long to update the blog. I know several of you were getting frusterated with me for not providing more updates and I promise to update the blog more often now even if it is just a few lines to say we are doing ok.