A Word From My Hubby

chemo free
Posted Feb 19, 2009 6:52pm
I haven't written in a while so I thought I would update a little. First things first, I've been chemo free for a little over 3 weeks, and it feels good. I have taken advantage of the things I wasn't able to do on all the chemo medicines, most if not all involved being able to eat stuff that I wasn't allowed to before. I wasn't able to eat sushi, which I really like, or things like blue cheese salad dressing, or brei cheese (any cheese that has live mold cultures), honey, etc... you get the idea.
For Valentines day, Katrina and I decided to go out on the 13th to avoid everyone else, and went to our favorite Irish pub/ restaurant (they actually built the place in Ireland then dissassembled it and shipped it to Tempe and built it) they have very good food, not just traditional Irish cuisine but new Irish cuisine as well. Of course, the Guinness is the best part of the evening. I continue to oil paint, and for a Valantines day present I did a painting for Katrina, a butterfly in a buch of wildflowers (off a picture from a trip into the white mountians). The butterfly theme is from our honeymoon, staying in Monterey, at the butterfly grove, where the monarch butterflys come in on thier way to Mexico.
Jacob finishes up another season of NFL flagfootball this Saturday, they have the championship tournement, and it could potentially be a long sfternoon, depending on how many games they win. He has started taking lessons on the viola in school, and was selected to try out for the district honor strings orchestra, one of only 5 kids in his whole school to recieve this honor.
Colleen continues to be involved in the brownies, and has started taking soccer after school.
Jesse is in his terrible 2s, and continues to try to use the potty chair, but it's a struggle. He will be getting glasses next week, so that should be interesting.
I am in the thinking stage of trying to put together a fund raising event for the UofA cancer center. I am looking at doing something a little different than the norm., and I think it will be very succesfull, but I'm not giving out details until I'm able to put more pieces in place. If I'm able to pull it off it will be March of 2010 (colon cancer awareness month). So stay tuned for more info.
Last but not least I was able to attend an ASU basketball game for the first time this year , with Jacob. We saw them play USC, and it was a lot of fun. You don't get to see the full beauty of Herb Sendeck's defense on T.V., but what an impressive thing to watch in person. I look forward to watching how far they can go in the NCAA tourney.
God bless all of you,
Brent