Friday is Good-Last Day Of Treatment

As the title says, tomorrow is Stevan's last day of treatment. Stevan will take his last shot of Velcade. He is excited to complete this and go back to the doctor in a couple of weeks. He's been staying as active as he can. He seems to feel better when he's up and doing things. His back continues to hurt but his left arm and shoulder seems to be doing better.

Spring break was last week for me. Whooooh! No students for a whole week! That's my kind of vacation. I still had 5 sets of tests to grade for my classes, but I had a whole week to do it. And I had my college class homework to do. Other than that, I only did what I wanted too.

The first half of the week was beautiful, sunny, warm days, allowing Stevan and me to do some of the things that we have been trying to get done outside but couldn't ever find the time, or he didn't feel like it. Which by the way, he felt pretty good except on Tues and Friday, which was his treatment days.

He borrowed a tractor from a friend so that we could fix our cattle guard. I thought cattle guards were supposed to keep cattle from crossing it. I guess our cattle are smarter than the average cow. Ours jumps it! Even after fixing it, they are still jumping it. So we shut the electric gate along with the cattle guard. Well, two of my bottle babies from last year, have not only learned to jump the cattle guard, but have also learned to push the gate open and squeeze through it. Back to the drawing board. For now we've disconnected the electric gate and have a chain around the post and gate to shut it. Not my favorite way to open it when it's cold and rainy.

We were able to get some fruit trees planted on Wednesday. He used a post hole digger on the tractor to dig holes for two pears, two apples, two peaches, a plum and a couple of holes for pecan trees, which I plan on digging up at my grandfathers tomorrow.

Last Wednesday evening the cold wind brought in the cold rain... For the rest of the week and weekend, meaning it was indoors for everyone with only Internet and our imagination. (We disconnected the satellite tv at the end of last month to try and save money.) Finally, Sunday evening the sun began to shine a bit, but was still cold.

It was hard coming back to work after a long week at home with Stevan. I got through it though and with tomorrow being Good Friday, I'm off, so this was a short week for me. I won't be going with Stevan to his treatment though. I will let his buddy, John take him as he's been doing over the last eight weeks. I will be doing some things around the house, working on my graduate class, baking a cake, visit with my grandfather and begin to write an essay for my teacher of the year application. Yes, some of my colleagues decided that I needed some more paperwork to fill out. Have I ever said how much I despise writing papers. LOL. It's a great honor to be nominated and its due Monday, so maybe Friday will be a good day to write it.

As you can tell, there isn't much to complain or report about. God is good to us and life is good. Have a Good Friday! Happy Easter! Christ is ALIVE!



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