Reflection on a Very Busy Year!

It's Monday morning (0400) and I am waiting for Jim to get up again..
I'm not sure why he gets out of bed every hour now starting at 0300...
Today I am staying home with him, there is something wrong, but I just don't know what...
His rash from Friday is better... oh, yes... I forgot his Folic Acid... and now he is recovering from a very bad rash on his chest and back!  (I must remember the little yellow pill and how important it is when taking Alimta...)

This is a good day to reflect on this year...
Starting November 11th our world, especially Jim's, was changed forever...
Some changes have been good, but, as you can imagine, we have had trouble giving up a lot of what we felt was so very important to us...

The month of November was to be very busy for both of us as we anticipated the start of a new year at IC, football games, parades, class reunions, retreats and travel.
What looked like a "case of mild pneumonia", said a local physician without getting chest x-rays or futher testing, turned out to be later in the week diagnoised as non small cell lung cancer, stage 4!
Having never smoked, the tests results seem to be in error.. (at least to us).
Following a pleurodesis and chest tube drainage, Jim came home from Memorial Hospital in Springfield to rest and to plan for treatment.




 More to come..