Day 20 Update

Well you'd think Shelley and I would be a little smarter by now but sometimes we make us wonder... Last night we decided we should try for a little normalcy and have our Saturday evening movie night instead of going to bed early. Fair enough, we watched a movie and went to bed shortly after midnight. I do remember having trouble falling asleep and seeing 1am roll around. Then right after that Nathan got up. He stayed up snacking on yogurt and went back to bed about 4 with Dad sleeping with him. I stayed there til 5:30 when Justin woke me up. Got him back down and went back to our bed to have a solid sleep until 8am. Shelley had been up with Nathan for the majority of the night and then got up with Justin for the day shortly after 7. We were both tired today but are maybe getting used to functioning with no sleep. We will be heading to bed shortly...

I mentioned yesterday that Nathan loved the fish for supper, well he loved it so much that he had fish as breakfast number 1. He then asked me if I thought any of his cousins would go out to the cabin and catch him some more fish... well cousins??? The strange part was that for breakfast number 2 we made pancakes and he cried because they hurt his mouth. He had fish and potatoes without complaining but pancakes hurt to eat! It might have been the size or solidness of the swallowing hurting his throat but I got the mean Dad comment since I made him food he couldn't eat. So breakfast number 3 was chicken noodle soup and that went over well.

Nathan had a pretty decent day. He watched TV and then beat his Dad a bunch of times at UNO (his favourite card game). Carter and he then played DS together and his Auntie Lorrie was over for supper. Jodi, from Shelley's work, brought chili for supper tonight and Nathan loved it. Had a few helpings and then washed them down with 2 or 3 of Grandma's homemade buns. Chili was also the bedtime snack tonight, think he'll go the night without having to go to the bathroom? Not likely!

Carter, Johnathan and I got to go to a private screening of "A Side Show Christmas" tonight. The father of one of Carter's classmates was the director. The boys really liked the show, you can try to catch on Teletoon over the next week. Nathan was waiting for us when we got home (he wanted to go) in order to get the report. Nathan is starting to really miss playing with his friends. It has taken some time but cabin fever might be setting in. On a positive note, he is getting much better at doing his medicine now. We got tablets for one of the liquids he didn't like and the other swish and swallow we turned into a swish and spit and that goes over better with him.

We do not have to go to the Cancer Center tomorrow as his blood work from last week was so good. Tuesday is our Day 22 and he gets more bloodwork and chemo but no biopsy this week. That is fine by me since it is so darn cold out (-32C).