First Day of Spring

After a week of almost summer-like weather, spring has finally arrived here in Southwestern Ontario! Unfortunately it's feeling a little wintery around here again today.

Dave has been enjoying March Madness for a week or so. For those of you that are unfamiliar with this, it's the NCAA basketball championship tournaments. For those of you that still don't quite get it, it's a phenomenon that sends hardcore American college basketball fans into a frenzy every year. Around here, it's like the Olympics - don't even think about changing the channel. Dave's not a big NBA fan. (I believe he refers to them as hoodlums.) However college basketball is an entirely different entity. These are players, coaches, and fans that live, breathe, eat, and die for the love of basketball. There's a lot of excitement, and many edge of your seat, nail-biting games. Good clean fun!

Also, I keep forgetting to mention that Dave did receive the TVDSB Award of Distinction. Fifty five people were nominated, and 21 were chosen this year. There is a ceremony and reception in May. In an earlier post about this, I mentioned that Dave has mixed feelings about this. Although he's honored to have been chosen, he feels that there are many others in his school that are equally, or more deserving. There were 10 letters of reference and there could easily have been more, but 10 is the maximum allowed with the nomination. These are heart tugging letters and are all true reminders of Dave's heart, and his desire to help the underdog in many cases. I've assured him that he deserves it.

Dave's week has been pretty full I think. He does have a lot of friends that want to come by to visit. Although the beginning and middle of the week weren't too bad for him, the last few days and today weren't very good. He just isn't feeling great, has occasional nausea (he thinks from the tumor's location), and is unfortunately still dealing with the fact that he can't swallow even liquids. He has been sick a few times and it's brutally painful for him. This evening we went briefly to Chapters as Dave wanted to get out and pickup a few magazines. It was tough. He is just not feeling strong, and seems to have spells where he just needs to stop and sit down. We were only there for about 15 minutes, and that was long enough. We got home and I must say that he did perk up pretty quickly when he turned the basketball games back on!

He's been reading the paper this evening and he found this article quite amusing but a sad commentary on what we feed our children. (Although it was in today's London Free Press, it doesn't seem to be in the online version of our paper. But here is a different link to the story.) It was titled "Not so happy meal turns 1 year". A nutritionist bought a happy meal and left it in her office for a year. It didn't rot or decompose at all.

And this is 'food' that is geared to children. That's pretty sad.

Thanks again for checking in and for praying for Dave, Cale, & I. 

Val