so guys.. sorry it's been a while... so lets see what's new...
couple days ago we went to the orthopedic to see what the situation was with my knees... good news... looks like the damage that they saw in my MRI results did not reach my joints... so no need for surgery like we had originally expected.
I've also had my PICC removed, cause I have entered maintenance... I will still be receiving chemo every week, but i'll be visiting the hospital only once every 3 weeks, and the other times there will be a nurse coming to my home to administer the chemo.
To celebrate going into maintenance, my wife and I are going to take a trip to Jamaica (in about a week) which we are both really excited about... we are looking forward to the sun, beach and pampering by hotel staff... if anybody needs it, it's my wife.. she's gotten me this far :) .. thank you my love...
meanwhile, I am trying to get my energy back.. I'm trying to get myself into a routine now... i function best that way... taking walks in the building corridors and getting on the bike my siblings got for me... I have been able to cook dinner again and help my wife clean the house... so things are finally going uphill...
My wife and I were talking last night about the positives we have received from this experience so far. One thing we are both thankful for is, we have become aware of what we put into our bodies now. Before we ate based on what we enjoyed and didn't think about the nutritional value and consequences, now, we eat thinking about what we are eating, and where it's coming from, and we are both glad that we learned this early in our lives so we can pass onto our children. Also we are happy that we've learned to cook. One thing we both wanted for our future family was home cooked meals for our children... we both have good memories from our mothers cooking and we wanted our children to have that same experience... now they will. We are also thankful that we learned this lesson much earlier than we would have if we didn't experience cc... people usually don't watch out for their bodies until they reach a certain age... and sometimes it's too late, now, we may have potentially learned they lesson to remain youthful ;)... there's much more, but i won't bore you with them...
anyways... maybe i'll write from jamaica next ;) ...
to all my friends I sincerely miss you all... and to those of you who are close to me... lets hang out soon... i'm finally up for it...
peace
So a few weeks after that we went to jamaica. We kinda had planned going somewhere when intensification was done as a pat on the back just for getting through it. I'm glad that we actually did go, instead of it being something that was just hoped for. We had an amazing time there but yet at the same time we got bored really fast. See, the thing is we have been just sitting around for the past year (granted it was while enduring difficulties), and that is what you want to do on a vacation. It's like your life was on pause and you just want to press play and get it started again. While basking in the sun that was some of our conversation of how we were both nervous, excited and anxious about getting back to normality.
did you know (if I remember correctly) that jamaica has some of the purest drinking water and has the most churches per square mile than anywhere else. Once we arrived we just went onto the beach to sun bathe. After about 30 mins of that, I jumped onto a jet-sky and had my fun!!
After some gift shopping later in the afternoon, we headed to rick's cafe. We were there for the sunset while watching the cliff divers.
