It has been a long week and we were up seeing the doctor every single day this week either for an appointment or to get some sort of procedure done.

Yesterday I had another chest x-ray done, and there is still air in that cavity near my lung. So I still have the tube in.

It is leaking fluid. It’s not a big deal unless I stand up and walk around a lot. I did that yesterday afternoon at home and we had to change the gauze that catches the “human stock” a couple times in a row quickly.

We are back up at the medical center for chemo on Monday. I asked my oncologist if he would come check in with me during that time so we could talk about everything that is going on. It will be good to hear his thoughts on everything.

After chemo, we will head over and have a chest x-ray and hopefully get the tube removed. If not we will discuss what other options we have. I know the radiologist was working on a referral to a thoracic surgeon to talk about some ways to stop the fluid from coming back to my lungs so I don’t have to continue to have it drained and then continue to have the possibility of air being trapped again after it’s drained.

This last week has been so hard. We have been at the medical center a lot. As soon as we got home and I got situated, Tom would start to take care of things around the house or head to the garage to sit at his desk and work. He has been right by my side through it all. He always knows the best questions to ask the doctors and nurses. And having his arm for support, or his hand on my shoulder caressing me, just to let me know he’s there and that he loves me, is so amazing. I can’t imagine going through this without him.

Somehow we are managing to pull all of this off. We try to remind ourselves that it’s okay that we ate more fast food than we normally do this past week, or that our kids did school by themselves at home most of the week, or that the girls are on devices too many hours. There’s not a whole lot we can do about that because of Covid. But at the end of the week we can look back and say everyone survived, most school assignments were done, our house is still relatively clean and picked up and God has been there to remind us how much we still have to be thankful for!

Today we are decorating for Christmas. We have a pretty hard and fast rule that we do not decorate until the day after Thanksgiving, but we decided to break that rule this year and decorate early. Tom still says no Christmas music, but I think he will get out voted on that pretty quickly. Lol. We’ll see how much he cares and stands firm on that…

Usually the girls and I do most of the decorating and Tom enjoys being around while we are doing it. It’ll be interesting to see how things are different this year, as I have to sit down most of the time. I gave Tom permission to insist that I sit down because I know I will try to push it and that is one of the worst things I can do for my body right now.

If I have time I will write more on this post as the day goes on. I know some people were wondering how yesterday went at the doctor so I wanted to get something up. ❤️

Update at 7:50 pm….the big tree is up and the girls each have their trees up in their rooms. But that’s it on the Christmas decorating. Lol. we will get to the rest of it at another time soon I guess. Oh, and we did have Christmas music on. But Tom was in the attic working on expanding the floor of it for more storage space, so I don’t think he could hear it. 😂