The summer is spinning by at a seemingly crazy speed. After this weekend it always seems to me that it is full out toward back to school. Getting back to sweaters, long pants and buying the least expensive loose leaf available!!!
The number of times that Bob and I have gone to the Tom Baker Cancer Centre also seems to accumulate ever so quickly. We are now into the ninth year of fighting this cancer. We were at TBC yesterday. One of our friends hoped that our meeting with the oncologist would be mundane. Well it was ordinary, at least as ordinary as the last couple of visits were. Gotta love ordinary. Bob's cancer markers were steady to two months ago. Dr. B. was thinking the spike in last months numbers was either a lab mistake or an anomaly as the numbers are right back down. Bob's blood work is low but acceptable according to the doc. Bob had another round of darzalex yesterday and so nothing has changed, at this point, for his chemo regime. That fact also makes us happy.
Sadly, the pain Bob has, has increased to the point he can hardly stand it at times. Before the end of Aug. he will have another PET scan. This should show what is going on in his hip and pelvis bones to cause such pain. Everyone seems to agree that bone pain is the worst. We are seeing the reality of that. Bob explained the cancer to someone in this way "the cancer eats holes in his bones and then the bones weaken and can crack." He had a fall awhile back and that could be what has happened. To relieve the pain he is trying some alternative pain stuff but today is back on the morphine only. Fortunately for me, well for both of us, Bob remains optimistic and mild mannered.
We made a trip to Manitoba. That time in MB seemed to spin by so quickly. We had a memorial and the interment of Bob's dad's ashes. He has been interred in the same grave as mom. Gerry had ordered a smaller marker to sit in front of mom's. One day was the immediate family only. That turned out very special. We were joined by extended family and friends on the second day. We had a meeting at the grave site followed by lunch at our niece's home. So very good to see all those folks again and reminisce about both dad and mom. Crystal is almost the spitting image of mom when mom was younger. Once the pictures were out the similarity of mom and Crystal was amazing.
We then were in Winnipeg to celebrate my mom's 89th birthday. That was a fun day. My brother is a social convener extraordinaire. Lots of games that all ages from 4-89 took part in. Mom was even in the 3 legged race-----not to shabby for 89. My sweet sister and brother in law babied us for a few days (oh so nice), and we spent time with mom. We had supper with some special friends from the north.
We were able to visit with several other friends both in Brandon and Winnipeg too, so "it was all good".
Oh Oh we also went to the colony where my friend Deanne lives. We were treated royally by her family and enjoyed fellowship with them and a tour of their colony and life style.
The wheels on the Terrain were just spinning like crazy on the way home as I took over the driving!!!
Hebrews 13:5b "God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." We cling to the Father as these days roll along.
