Happy Birthday Tom

Saturday was Tom's Birthday - so we decided to have alittle fun with him. Tom dressed as Leonardo The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle for his cousins birthday party - when he was twenty years old. For him, it was one of his most embarassing moments - that still haunts him to this day. He always finishes the story with - I would never get my hands on those pictures. Hmmmm sounds like a challenge to me. It turned out to be not that difficult. One phone call to his mother in New Jersey (Thanks Irene) and I had them within a week. I had a couple of months to decide how to make the most of these pictures. So I decided to make T-shirts, fliers and order ninja turtle mask. Tom's Birthday was on Saturday but Michelle (my partner in crime) and I decided it would be a shame for his work to miss out on the festivities so Michelle dressed in her T-shirt and turtle gear showed up at his work with ballons and the fliers. But, it didn't stop there. For lunch, I sent over a large pepperoni pizza for Leonardo (the ninja turtle's favorite).
Saturday his birthday we decided to go to Texas RoadHouse (is he crazy) guess so because he showed up and on time. We were there 45 min. prior and I had burned the Ninja Turtle Theme Song and had those famous fliers in the truck. Our waitress and her friend were all to happy to assist in our celebration. We were wearing our T-Shirts (yes Tom there was more than one) so we gave them our ninja turtle masks. Tom wasn't as amused as I was and threatened me several times. He said he didn't want them singing to him. I told him I told them not to sing but, what I didn't tell him was that I did tell them to come out playing the Ninja Turtle theme song and they ended it with a Have A Cowabunga Birthday Dude!! A birthday I don't think he'll forget.
Happy Birthday Tom

TGIF

Thank God It's Friday. We seem to be winding down from a busy week - still recovering from the big weekend party. Scott seems to have had more energy as the week went on. Monday and Tuesday were lay around movie days for him. I am so glad we are fortunate enough where he doesn't have to worry about working while going through Chemo. I tease him about being his "Sugar Momma" but honestly it makes it easier on me knowing he's not struggling through a work day.
We are still planning our Friday routine. Pick Skylar up from the sitter's after work, she spends the night and we play on Saturday. By Friday Scott and I both seem to start having withdraw's so it's a good routine for us.

Skylar in Wonderland

Skylar turned 3 on Saturday. We had a huge Alice in Wonderland Party for her.  Michelle and I worked very hard to pull it off and kids had a blast.  Skylar dressed up as Alice and the other children were characters from the movie. They loved dress up and the character hats(some adults were even caught in character hats)  they  painted tea cups and could not wait for the pinata. Wesley was the lucky one- he pulled the correct ribbon and the hidden door opened up spilling confetti, candy and toys everywhere. They seem to also  love the tea party. But,when I yelled switch they all looked at me like I was crazy. When I explained to them what it meant the older ones told me it wasn't happening. After we had cut and served the cake Skylar thought it was funny to take a bite of the cake that was left. She had icing all over face then wanted to kiss people, after she kissed them she would point and laugh because they now had icing all over there face. I posted the pictures on Photoshow Website
Skylar in Wonderland
For those still on modem or using a slower speed computer, I have also posted a slide show of the party here
Skylar in Wonderland

One Down

Scott started his first chemo treatment on Monday and finished on Friday. He did well all week but by Friday was a bit fatigued. He was really tired on Saturday but didn't want to miss any part of Skylar's Birthday. We will see Dr. Nick November 2nd - he will check his white cell count and if it's good we will go with treatment two.
Sunday we took it easy slept in until 10:00 which is unusal for us. We developed Skylar's birthday pictures - YIKES!! we had 409 pictures. Then Scott wanted to see Grudge 2. He loves to see scary movies with Michelle, although Michelle never seems as thrilled as Scott. But, she goes along with it anyway to humor him. Good sport Michelle..Thank You to everyone that continue to keep Scott in your prayers.

9-1-1

Scott has been on a Dilatin check for 2 weeks because of the toxicity levels. He was advised by Dr. Nick to only take 300 mg of Dialatin before bed along with his Topomax and Neurontin which acts as buffers. Scott had a Dilatin level check on Monday, the levels were still high. So we were to stay with the same plan 300 mg before bed. In doing so this was causing small break through seizures.
Saturday we spent the day shopping with Skylar and had dinner plans with some friends we had not seen in almost a year. We met at a favorite local resturant, had dinner and said our good-byes when Tami noticed Scott was having some trouble. What I thought was a small break through seizure turned out to be more. I was trying to keep Scott calm and everyone around us from panicking. By the time Scott had come around Indian Harbour Beach parmedics had shown up and we decided to go ahead and transport Scott to be checked out. At the hospital Scott and I decided to have them just check his Dilatin level and we would know what to do until we followed up with Dr. Nick on Monday. His Dilatin level was 11.9 which is low and probably what caused the seizure.

Questionable MRI

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Questionable MRI

Scott and I returned to Dr. Nick for a 6 week reading of a new MRI scan. An area that seemed to be questionable at first has shown activity. Scott is to begin treatment on Monday with Temedor it is a 28 day cycle chemo for 12 - 18 months. If the cells do not react to the Temedor than we will go to plan B. We don't know what that is yet. Dr. Nick seems to think the cells will react well to the Temedor because it has reacted to everything else it has been hit with.

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The Face Of Courage

Recently I created a my space account. It seems like the 'in thing' and a way to reconnect with those you loose contact with in this rat race we call 'Life'. When filling out the questionaire I came to a place where it asked about heros. I don't think of hero's. I do think of the admiration I have for people. Scott is the kindest person I know. He is more concerned how other lives will be affected rather than his own. When everyone else is falling apart - he is the one to say it's going to be OK. I have never met anyone that has touched and inspired people the way he has. I admire him for his positive outlook on life, for that sparkle that is always in his eye, for his determination to live his life to the fullest and for his courage to fight.