Wednesday 2/15/12

2/15/12

Today is the first day of this blog.  This is just to keep everyone up to date on John's progress so that I don't have to repeat it as it is very difficult for me.  First I need to sincerely thank all the Staff at KHS for the wonderful gifts and dinners your thoughtfulness has been overwhelming.  To the staff at Manzanita we feel the same thank you for supporting the boys and our family with the wonderful dinners.  To the Students and staff at KAOL Middle School we appreciate putting on a fundraiser likewise to all others doing fundraisers for our family.  Words can not express my feelings towards this community and its giving nature. 

I will use this to document how John is feeling and what we are doing medically as we are about to embark on a difficult journey and our family will need your prayers and suppport.  Which you have already given so freely.

Tomorrow is John's last radiation treatment and on Friday we will be meeting with his oncologist in Las Vegas to determine a plan of action.  He has been exhausted as the radiation techs told he would be.  By the way the Kingman Cancer Center is fantastic.  The staff has made this scary nightmare a bit more bearable with their kind hearts.  As for physical and speech therapy that is going well as many of you know when John had his stroke he lost some of his left vision.  It is coming back slowly and we have taken to video poker on my sisters IPAD to make him look to his left.  I am trying to make him eat however his appetite is not very strong.  John still has his great sense of humor and is staying as positive as can be expected.  For all of you baseball parents your children have been a huge motovational push for him as he had very high expectations for this year. As for his friends and workmates please continue calling and visiting as you are keeping him going.

I will try as much to update as possible as I do stay pretty busy with my patient.  I am thankful that I work for a district that allows employees to have sick days roll over as no one is ever ready for something like this.  The same goes for John's employer, Cascades Tissue has been truly amazing.

That is it for now.  Thank you again and good night.