Busy week and Unknowns

 Last week Seth had to go to the Stollery because he needed a blood transfusion. This usually takes about 3 hours, but when we got there his blood work showed that his numbers came up so he didn't need one after all! We were thankful to have an appointment that was actually kind of a waste of time for once! 😆 I dropped off Seth at school and we both got to be at the year end school assembly that we were expecting to miss. Praise God!

Getting the bloodwork that told us we could go home! He was expecting a long boring afternoon that turned into going home after a half hour of waiting for bloodwork results. 

Saturday Seth hung out with friends. It's nice to feel like we are getting the hang of everything.  We now know that at the end of a chemo round Seth has energy and is feeling good and up for hanging out with friends or going to basketball and all that stuff that tires him out in the beginning when he just gets home after a chemo treatment. 

Sunday Seth came to church twice, sporting a new Oilers tie! He was going to wait until Christmas to open this gift from someone at church, and he was pretty sure it was a tie, so I told him to open it and wear it because depending on surgery he may not be in church for a while. After church he went to his girlfriends to celebrate Christmas with her family and was still energetic when we picked him up in the late evening (he's not allowed to drive right now).  He did well with his food choices yesterday too, poor guy has a PET scan today so he had to eat high protein, low carb and no caffeine, so no pop or chocolates or anything. He also had to limit his sugar intake so Christmas celebrations are tempting but he seems to have good motivation in knowing this scan cannot be moved! 

PET scan today! The reason I say it could not be moved is that he would have been scheduled for another round of chemo on Thursday, Christmas Day, but they aren't doing that because they want to do surgery.  Before surgery they want to see results of the PET scan. IF the PET scan got moved then it just means prolonging everything and we don't want to give his cancer any wiggle room to grow. 

Tomorrow we have an appointment at the Cross Cancer Institute for a radiology consultation. 

Then Wednesday is his regular PICC line dressing and blood work. 

We will wait on PET scan results for a surgery date. Like I said before, I'm expecting this week sometime.  We selfishly are hoping it's Saturday so that we can have Christmas Day together and then be at Seth's Hockey Fundraiser on Friday. But we also know we don't get the choice, and we want this cancer out so whenever he has to go in is when we go in.

I thank you all for keeping up with our blog and coming along side us. We hope you have a great Christmas and enjoy your time off! In case you feel bad for us, don't let our updates put a damper on your Christmas, we are playing games and enjoying our time together as well.  Also what a time to celebrate Christ's birth so He could save us from the awful things we live through on this earth! We only need to suffer down here for a little while and then we all can be in heavenly glory forever! I'm thankful this life is but a little blip in the grand scale of it all!♡

Praise God for the gift of His Son!!  💝