Last Wednesday before we left the Cancer Hospital we met with a stage 3 colon cancer survivor named Beth. Beth came and picked us up at our hotel and we went for lunch. Beth is a super up-beat person with a lot of spunk. She was so fun to talk to and she definitely cheered us up and gave us hope. She gave me a beautiful bracelet that has a charm of the cancer ribbon on it that says hope. She told us this wonderful story about how a woman had given her the bracelet when she was going through chemotherapy and was super sick and feeling a bit hopeless. This woman told her to wear it until she beat the cancer and then she was to pass it on to someone else who needs hope. I was the lucky recipient of this special gift and I am to pass it on to someone else who is need of hope when Matt beats his cancer! Isn't that so cool!!!!
That same day we also met with the gastro intestinal doctor and have scheduled a colonoscopy for next Wed. morning. Then after that Matt will get his chemotherapy treatment. We will be at the hospital until late Friday. We are hopeful that the cancer in his colon has shrunk enough for Matt's doctors to add the other chemo medicine. When we see our oncologist we will ask him about doing a ct scan to look at the liver as well.
We came home on Wednesday night very excited to go camping with the family this weekend. I packed and cleaned the trailer, made the menu, got the groceries, etc. My sisters did the same and we were so ready to get out of this heat and go up the mountain for a couple of days. Ahhhh.......the best laid plans!!! Matt was supposed to come home at 4:00 Friday afternoon but ended up working late until 6:30. I had everything done and so we jumped into the van and as we were pulling out my Aunt and Uncle told us that the mountain was closed due to fire hazard. We had called the forest service earlier and they had said that it was still open so we decided to go for it. We got up to the gate and it was still open!! But alas we were still unable to go up any further as our van overheated and we sadly had to turn around and come home. :<(
My wonderful sisters didn't let this be a complete failure and waste of time as they quickly unloaded the food, pulled out the bbq grill and made a feast of hamburgers and hot dogs right here in our little park. The kids ran around playing games and we sat around talking. The weather had cooled and it was beautiful. It was just like camping except that we were able to sleep in our own beds!!!! This morning we got together again for a big breakfast and tonight we are having dinner altogether, just like we had planned for the mountain.
Matt is looking into the reason our van overheated as it should be able to pull our trailer without a problem. Hopefully we can figure it out and go camping for real this time!!
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