Monday- back to the old grind- WLS Express

You mean the whole word doesn't eat by a clock?  (devious snicker)  I've been doing that for 2 years now and sometimes I forget that this is strange to some people. 

We were with friends this weekend watching bowl games and my beeper on my spor****ch went off.  My hubby pops up off the couch and proceeds to drill our host about what deli meat she might have on hand.  He cracked me up.

On the first day the Wii fit asks you to take a test to determine your Wii fit age. Some of the tests have to do with balance. Well I am unbalanced- lol so my wii fit age was alot higher than my real age. Don't be offended if yours is. Good luck!

Good morning... got on so I could post on Jumpstart... but I guess Karla gets to sleep in one more day!!!!  Not happy about going back to work...looking forward to getting today over with!
Tomorrow will be better... it's always the first day back that is hard... it's almost like it's the first day of school!

Glad I gassed up the car yesterday because it's cold out there this morning and looks like it is going to get worse as the week goes on!!! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr  I'm tired of being cold!!!!

Okay I'm off....

Prayers and hugs going out to Meggie and everyone else today who is in need!!!

taking a few quick mins for me time this am

planned on getting everyone up reg time but we were a few hours late on that LOL - got up and moivng at 7 instead of 5 but that is ok considering all the time changes and lack of sleep we have done in the last 2 1/2 weeks

boys go back to school on wed - I start today - if Rach feels ok - she does sound better this morning at least - she is going to school so I can accually do school work - other than that I am washing all the couch covers today - they are sandy and covered with cat hair

did do our normal tidy the downstairs on sunday night at least last night

did not make any new years resolutions - made some deployment ones a few months ago and doing ok but not wonderful on them

scale is being scewy - was down a pound yesterday from when I left on my trip - up that same pound today - have to go check agian latter since Rach got up and ate.

hope everyone has a good day - remember WHY you had surgery - it was to be healthy not to "sneak" around the issue and eat crap

peace
Danni

remember WHY you had surgery - it was to be healthy not to "sneak" around the issue and eat crap

GET OUT OF MY HEAD DANNI!!  I actually had to freeze all the junk food this morning so I wouldn't eat it.  Still can't "throw it out" but at least it's out of sight cuz I burried it in the bottom of the freezer.

 

 

rofl I froze food too!  God forbid that I acually just throw it away.  Especially since when I cleaned the deep freeze last week I finally threw away left over stuffing from last Christmas!!  LOL we are something else, aren't we? 

Well, round three BEP starts today. Would saying I'd rather have my nose hairs plucked out by a insane chimpanzee holding a pair of rusty tweezers be enough to convey how much I'm dreading it? Good Lord up in Heaven PLEASE make it easy on Eric this week. I'm seriously dreading chemo and the follow up of round 4 at the end of this month. It's going to be a rough couple of months, and it's really only the beginning (hopefully of the end). My unease comes mostly from not knowing where the heck we're going at the middle of next month. A new round of high dose chemo that is done inpatient because it's so caustic, or the RPLND that consists of the love of my life getting a zipper down his abdomen to remove all of his lymph nodes. Both are definites, but neither give me warm fuzzies. I really could use some warm fuzzies. All I can do is rely on hope for tomorrow, and believe that all of these treatments are curing him, not just buying him 18 months. It's definitely a heavy day here in the Richter household.

Please just say a prayer that the side effects of chemo aren't any worse than they were last time, and that he finds the strength to go on when he doesn't think he can any longer. It's one thing to know what you're doing is helping heal you, it's another to actually live through it.

Have a great day everyone.

Jenny

BIG ((((HUGS)))) Jenny.  Eric's so lucky to have you by his side.  I know it's tough, but you're tougher.  Hang in there honey we've got the prayer end handled.

Hey Girl!

One day at a time sweetheart! That's all I got..well that- lots of HUGS and way TONS of prayers!!!

Did you know that I am in awe and inspired by you? In the face of the worst thing that could possibly happen, what did you do? YOU pulled not only yourself but your family up, you got a job when you were worried about finances, you are an amazing mom, an amazing wife, and can still find time to be an amazing friend.

Remember that at Eric's weakest to go back to how we ate post-op. Protein and calories in liquid form. He's not going to be hungry, so getting flavors that he'll somewhat tolerate will be best, and even then he may not want them. Don't be afraid to ask for help- from us, from the dr's. If he gets weak and frail and refuses to eat- ask for the darn feeding tube- it can be removed later, ask for the damn pain medicines- he wasn't an addict to begin with, it probably won't make him one later.....  ask for a time out for yourself- sometimes you don't have to be so strong- sometimes one of us can house sit, clean a bathroom, babysit so you can take a well deserved nap.

Don't think about tomorrow- be strong enough JUST for today. Tomorrow will be here in no time. And in your dealings with the "here and now"- don't forget that LOTS of people have your back and will be there in just a phone call. Don't be shy about that phone call.  

Love you!!!
Tracey

Good morning Train Riders!  I'm up and at em this morning, attempting to get logged in to work.  I've got some "issues" to fix with HR and Payroll today and I'm not looking forward to those calls.  It will get worked out, I just hate having to deal with their screw ups.

Not sure exactly what is on my plate today for work, cleaning out email and figuring out what blew up over the last two weeks that's for sure.  I'm going to work in an exercise video at some point today, I might do that in the middle of the day for a break.

My FIL is doing better each day, so thank you for the prayers.  He's off work this week but I'm sure will want to go back as soon as the doc says he's good.  Now I need to ask for some prayers for Jeff.  We're going in to see a GI doc on Wed and I'm hoping they can really help him out.  He's had chronic, severe acid reflux and diarrhea for years and it's really kicked in even more the last couple of months.  We're trying different acid pills but they are only partially effective and don't do anything for the other issue.  Our PCP wants an EGD and colonoscopy done, but due to his age the GI doc has to recommend the colonoscopy for the insurance to cover it.  Hopefully they will figure out what needs to be done to get all this under control quickly as I hate to see him feeling like crap.

Ok, off to work.  Hope everyone has a fantastic day!

Debbi