Closing out 2019

Since the holiday craziness is finally behind us, I guess I can officially procrastinate no longer. Let's do a Jeremy update. I guess you could say that I've perfected procrastination. Or I wanted to get through the holidays without really sinking in to our reality, but here goes. I have to go back all the way to mid October to give you a full picture that's when Jeremy had a routine pet scan to see how the chemo he was on was doing. When we showed up to his chemo appointment later that month his Doctor came in to tell us he would not be receiving chemo that day. The pet showed that new growths had appeared, meaning the chemo was not working. He recommended we take a six week break and let Jeremy's body recover a little since he had been on chemo for so many months at this point.

We made it about 3 weeks before Jeremy decided he wanted to move forward with some sort of treatment. He was going stir crazy thinking he was just letting his body grow cancer....so we met with a radiation doctor and started steps towards starting radiation therapy. The plan was set! Jeremy would be in radiation Monday through Friday the entire month of December.  In the planning stages of radiation they do more scans where they discover that there had been significant new growth. So around Thanksgiving time he finds out that he is no longer eligible for radiation and that he needs to start a more aggressive form of chemotherapy asap. The new chemotherapy is given once a week for two weeks then on the third week he gets a break and starts the next cycle on the fourth week. Last week he completed the second set so this week there will be no chemo.

Ooohhhhh I almost forgot that in the middle of all this fun, Jeremy got shingles! Soooo fun! NOT!! Luckily this happened before he started the new chemo so while it did delay us just a tad it mainly was just an uncomfortable couple weeks for Jeremy.

I think I hit all the highlights (or more accurately low-lights) of the past few months in regards to Jeremy's treatment. We are surviving on all the good days that happened in the midst of those months. We have spent more days with family in those months than normal. We've had more friends visit than usual and we've enjoyed more meals from friends then feel like we deserve. All these things hold us up on our weak days and keep us smiling even when the nights seem dark.

This guy keeps us smiling too, I don't know how he does it but at every appointment he shows up with a smile and continually entertains the nurses and doctors. For now I guess I don't have much to say besides thanks for stopping by for our quick little update over here!

Let's hope 2020 is a little kinder to us all,
Liz