OK! So it's been a while since the Last Update.

OK!, the last update was on December 18th, since then this is what has expired, I mean happened.

It's after modnight on December 21st and we get a call from Mitch, saying that he is stranded in Chicago and that Megabus and Greyhound has stopped all Buses out of the City for the Night and the next Train out wouldn't be until 11:55p on Sunday. So, we made the decision for me to call off work, then Carmen and I made the trip to Chicago. After picking up some Gatorade and Gas, we hit the road. The funny thing was when we was getting on the Turnpike a Megabus was exiting, so we knew that at least some people made it East. The Weather forecast was for plummeting temperatures, since the Artic Clipper was moving thorugh; so we knew that it would be an adventure.

On the Turnpike the last Oasis, was a bear with the bitter cold wind ripping through you like a knife and pumpng petrol was even more challenging. Arriving in Chicago at 6:30a Mitch is calling us to say that he has been kicked out of Union Station and wanted to know where we are. I told him that we had just exited the motorway and was coming to pick him up. Approximately 2 minutes later we was outside Union Station's Canal Street Entrance, picking up Mitch. The drive home wasn't much better, since by now there was White out conditions in portions of Indiana on the Turnpike, so we had a nice nerve racking drive home. We arrived around 11am and I proceeded to call into work to let them know I was all right and that I would be in on Monday. Laying down to sleep, felt good after the round trip adventure to Chicago land and back...

On December 23 I came home from with Carmen in Bed Sick with the Flu, I walk into the Bedroom and run the back of my hand down hear cheek and ask how's she doing and she comments:

Carmen: Since I have vomited and having diarrhea I'm feeling a little better.
Me: OK, I'll leave you alone to get some rest.

I leave and come out into the Kitchen and open up a can of Beef Vegetable Soup, since I really wasn't that hungry. After eating the soup and getting caught up on emails, I decided to go to bed myself; since I wasn't feeling good. This had to be around 7:30-ish and by 9 I was vomiting myself. YES!! the darn Flu struck me and I had the Freaking Shot Too!!! (Note to self, consult Dr. Steve on this).

I wake up at 4:15am on Christmas Eve and still feel like a Beer Truck has run me over and proceed to call off. I sleep all day and wake up to find Carmen still suffering from the side-effects but doing a little better then me. I rest the for what is left of day and eat a little. We also called off a Party that we where suppose to attend, since we were still under the weather.

Christmas Day, I wake up, feeling a little better. Instead of going over to my Sister's House, which we didn't know about until later, we decided to have Steaks for dinner with Mitch. Noah was in South Milwaukee, Wi with Dad, so it was only the 3 of us here at the house. We took it easy and opened up Christmas Gifts that was wonderful. I got a pair of Charcoal Grey Sweat Pants and a Shirt from Carmen's Parents. Carmen got a Snugglie, which is good if your sitting in a high back chair or on a Sofa. Mitch got money and a Card. Christmas was quite, it felt good.

I had my Chemo treatment on Friday December 26, which went off without any problems. I came home and proceeded to relax. On Saturday December 27, I picked up my Son Ian, and the 4 of us went to Monroe, Mi and proceeded to do some shopping/sight seeing. I called a friend of mine, Jan, to see if he would be interested in meeting up with us for a light lunch and they were busy at the time, but said he would call me later to let me know for sure. After making the rounds of Staples, Dean and Berrys, then Crafts 2000. I got the call from my friend, Jan, who said that he and his wife was free and asked if we wanted to hook up and get a bite to eat. So we did. It was great to see them both, especially since, Charolette had been going through pre-operative chemotherapy and was waiting for her Lumpectomy Surgery on December 29th. Afterwards, Mitch asked if we could stop at Walmart, so he could look for a few things. So, we went to Walmart and shopped. While there the diarreha that I was experiencing started to get worse, so I picked up some Immodium Tablets and took like 6 of them; since this usually stops it within an hour.

Well, needless to say this didn't and by 10:30p after downing 6 more Immodiums and a Banna, I was calling the after hours number for the Chemotherapist. Dr. Burton called me back and advised me to go to Hospital to make sure that my Electrolites had been thrown out of wack. So, off to the Emergency Room Carmen and I went. After, having a litre of Water pumped into me and lab tests run, the Nurse came in and announced that I had low Potasim levels and gave me 4 Tablets of Potasim and signed me out. I came home, it was around 3a, called off work again and slept until 3p on Sunday. The irony of this was that I had a Doctor's Excuse to return back to work on Sunday for being off on Christmas Eve, then I had to call off on Sunday (Doctor's Excuse in hand from the Hospital) I wen back to work on Monday.

On Wednesday December 31st, I left work at 3p, since I had an appointment for a CT Scan to be done. MMMMMMMMM, the Orangey goodness of the Redi-Cat, how I forgot how good it was, LOL... I got the scan and was out of the office and homeward bound. I wake up on Friday and I have a big black and blue mark on the back of my that had the IV in it when I had the CT SCan done, I went to my Chemotherapy Treatment mention it to the Nurse and come home. Finally, after a week I have no mark on my hand, YAY!!! I am also happy to report no uncontrollable diarreha either, just some minor diarreha which I'm controlling with the Immodium.

Tomorrow, Friday, I go to see Dr. Schaefer to see what he says about the CT Scan get the word on my leison's in my lung. So, I'm kind of optimistic and aprehensive about this. I will update more on this after the appointment.