Update

Ted got treatment on Friday again. It was his second dose. He seems to be handling it pretty well and better then the last time it was his second dose. Not sure what we are doing differently but it seems to be ok. Some little changes around here. I started working part-time to help pay for bills and things. It's a little challanging but working out ok. I think the most difficult thing is not being home when the kids get home. But Ted is there and that is an important job for him and for me, so i'm glad he is there. Kyle starts his behind the wheel class today. He has 8 classes everyother day. We could use some good thoughts and prayers that he passes so that he can drive in July. It will be a great relief for me to have him driving. It definatly will help out.

We have company this weekend. Jodie and Leo came down again. It's so nice to have them here. It perks ted up and gives me a break. Maybe that is why he is doing so well this weekend. Leo finished up the siding so that his friend Danny could come and pressure wash the house for us. Wow it looks great.

Look for more information coming soon. We have started a foundation in Ted's name to help pay for medical bills/perscriptions. After our bills are paid, we hope to help other people with Colon Cancer and other cancers to pay for there medical bills. There really is alot of help out there but not enough help. I'm looking for maybe someone to make t-shirts and other items so that we can sell them on the site. I've got the site somewhat up, but when it's a little more complete i'll post the address. Ohh by the way.....it's called.....Team Ted Colon Cancer Foundation, Inc.

Doctor

We went to the oncologist today. Nothing new to report. Cea levels are constant.
They went up a little bit but he considers it more of leveling off instead of jumping. So this is good. Ct of the lungs, shows no cancer! but does show some scarring. This is probably from the chemo. Our pulminologist said this is a good baseline incase it gets worse and they need to stop the chemo. I mentioned this to the Doctor and I don't think he liked that much. No one knows why or they aren't saying why he wouldn't wake up on Sunday. He was kinda like hmm....and then said that maybe he is getting to many pain pills and that is why he is tired. Well i'm not sure about that but hell if you want me to cut back the pills. I'll try but I'm not cutting way back! Anyway, he is resting now and we are hoping for a good weeknd.

Happy Mothers Day to all the Mom's and Mom's to Be!

God Slapped me in the Face!

An odd statement that is. But its probably the only way that I can really explain how i felt. Ok, so let me begin by saying that Ted had an awesome week. He felt great, he worked outside, got too much sun, he was loving life. Doing what he loves, and enjoying spring. The weather was in the 70's and low 80's. Well that was like Wed-Saturday. Then Sunday came and my friend wanted us to go to Busch Gardens. We have season passes that we purchased about 4 years ago, and because we pay monthly they stay at that years price. It's an awesome deal. Then we can go and just stay a few hours or all day. In any case, we went Ted said he was doing ok and wanted to go. So we did. We rented a motorized cart and off we went. Well about an hour later he just wasn't feeling well. Of course the goof went on the log flume. Had a blast he did. After that he decided it was time to go home. So we told the kids to go ahead and get on one more ride and we would meet them up front. It took us a bit to get up front because as he was driving the cart he would fall asleep and I would have to wake him up. We met up with the kids and headed out and he started vomiting. We had an employee walk us out so he didn't have to walk out to the parking lot. Good thing we were parked up front in handicapp. I don't think I could have gotton him up to hill to the car. He got sick one more time in the car on the way home. And after that he felt a little better. He fell asleep the rest of the way home. We got home about 45 minutes later and I tried to wake him up. I could not wake him for nothing. At first we thought it was funny. Then funny turned to panic. I tried everything short of throwing water in his face or slapping his face. I couldn't do that to him. I did shake him and slap his arm several times, waiting for him to yell at me for it. Finally I sent my daughter to my neighbors house to help me. I gave it one last ditch effort before calling 911 and I pulled his face to mine and begged him to wake up. He opened his eyes and I coached him back to me. The first thing he said was, "I think I swallowed my gum". Always the funny man. My neighbor helped me get him in the house. He got sick a few more times. But then he slept the rest of the night, but I checked on him and he seemed to wake up easily.

This scarred the shit out of me!! I guess, i'm not as prepared as I thought I was. I feel like this was god telling me "honey, your not ready yet. So don't even think that you are."

We went to the oncologist today to get fluids, even though he was doing better and felt better. He didn't do much of anything else today because he had a CT scan of his lungs again this afternoon. I don't know if I should have taken him to the ER but he didn't want to go he just wanted to sleep. The nurse thinks he was dehydrated with maybe a touch of heat stroke. But he wasn't running a fever. Like I said I think this was Gods way of slapping me in the face.

We see the oncologist on friday, i'll post more if we know more. And know that he is doing better and feels ok. Hope your weather is as beautiful as ours is. Have a great night! Karen