Just a quick update on all the goings on 'round here: :)

Ryan has been without his "good" anti-nausea meds for several days now. There was a mess-up with the pharmacy and it took a few days to straighten out. Now that it has been, we're stuck waiting on shipment. It's been a hard time for him. Taking his ninety seven zillion pills each day has become so routine, I don't know that either of us understood how significantly just that one impacted his well being. I feel awful for him, so I was on the phone with Medco again today pushing for faster shipping. Starting to feel like a little thug, all this heavy-handedness!

On the far side of the same thought about his pills, I had a revelation of sorts the other day. Remember I said many people have commented on how good Ryan looks? We both understand that he doesn't look like he has cancer. But no one says he "doesn't look like he has cancer". They say he looks "good" or "great", and we didn't really get that they absolutely meant it. Well, turns out, he actually does look better than ever here lately! I've been looking at old pictures recently, and he seriously does look healthier now than he did before he was diagnosed. I finally realized, it's all those gag-inducing pills!!! Taking them, he is getting all the vitamins and supplements a happy body could ever want--he is lacking in nothing anymore! Why I didn't think of this sooner I don't know...guess I just figured he was as genetically blessed as a guy could get. Now that I have though, I've been taking notes. If  health(ier-ness) comes in a vast collection of short white bottles, then surely there's no harm in working toward gathering a similar collection for myself? This is pure experiment right now.... I've formed my hypothesis and next I'm testing my theory! If it turns out there's something to it, I'll share my notes! :))

Getting ready for the next visit to CTCA, end of this month. This is a longer one, a scan visit, looking at the area of tissue growth that lit up on June's scan and checking for over all progress in the cancer. I'm a little on the queasy side when I think about it. Ryan said "Doc wasn't worried about it in June, I'm not worrying about it now." Wish I had his laid-back frame of mind! On the bright side, I get to go with him for this one!!! We're very blessed to have an offer from Ryan's cousin to watch the kids so that I can go along, so we'll be hitting the airport like a couple of tourists again in a few weeks! Ryan is way more "normal" when he's there alone. I'm the one snapping pictures of the baggage claim area and asking the security folk to pose for a picture with me. (They won't, just a heads up.) But he says it's also a lot more boring without me, because no one fails to hide their terror of flying quite as well as I do. No poker face here, what can I say?

Fair is coming up in just a matter of days now, and it's a pretty big deal for our family!! Both of the older kids are entering 2 market pens of rabbits this year, for a total of 12 rabbits from our little Rabbitry here. Last year they each only had 1 rabbit to enter, so we are counting this year as utterly successful, even if they don't place at judging. If you go to the Portage County fair, visit the small animal barn and look for their pens! We will be in and out all week long, every day. I'll get some pictures up so we can share the fun in case you can't make it! :))