Valentine's Day

Thanks everybody for your concern and love. We feel very blessed that so many people care and are praying hard! 

Dave's health seems to be steadily improving over the last few days. The side effects from chemo don't seem to be as bad right now. The neuropathy (pain in hands & especially his feet) seems to be completely gone today, as well as the mouth sores that were starting up. (I've been massaging his hands and feet with a blend of arnica oil that a new friend from from CHI (Creative Health Institute) sent us home with. Thanks Na!)

Yesterday he went to the Woodworking Show at the fairgrounds with a friend. (Said it wasn't that great but it was good to be out, and out with a friend!) Dave still really tires very quickly. (He just hits a wall and can't help but fall asleep whether he wants to or not.)

We went to church this morning and left early for Dave's catscan. You can't have anything to eat or drink the 4 hours before, so we got up early this morning so Dave could eat breakfast. When you're there, you have to drink iodine I believe, then swallow some kind of paste, and they inject you with a dye as well. When he came out he said he just felt like a toxic soup when you add all that stuff to the chemotherapy. This afternoon he felt OK until about 6:30 and then he starting getting pain in his chest a few inches away from the feeding tube site. It comes and goes but can be very painful. They don't seem to know what's causing it, but maybe today's catscan will help answer that. (We will see his oncologist on Wednesday to discuss the results.)

Today as you all know was Valentine's Day. Dave & I have rarely fallen for the commercial aspect of the holiday and don't buy gifts for each other. And although I enjoy a night out at a restaurant as much as the next person, we've tried to avoid restaurants on Valentine's Day because they're always far too busy to really be enjoyable. I always enjoy flowers, no matter what the occasion - and that's what my sweetie got for me today! (He had them hidden somewhere and snuck them on the table for breakfast. We got up so early this morning, that I didn't notice them right beside me for 2 or 3 minutes. He ate breakfast and I went back to bed!)

Tomorrow is 'Family Day'. We usually visit family in Ottawa this weekend for Winterlude and to skate the Rideau Canal. It didn't work out this year, but we're looking forward to it again next year! This long weekend I'll just be enjoying an extra day off work!

Take care all!

Val