Oh what a difference a couple days can make

As you've read, the week was rough.  I'm happy to report that the weekend was much much better.  Roger still had moments of exhaustion, and pain, and nausea...but overall said he was feeling much better than he had at the start of the week.  Its a relief for both of us.  His constant pain and discomfort weighs heavy on him and on me...so the lift of the cloud is much welcomed.  Its funny how perspective can change.  Roger just laughed and said "its pretty bad when you consider it a 'good' day because you have only vomited once during the day.  We keep adjusting our standards".  Nonetheless, it was a good day.  Full of Roger personality & bunches of laughs.  Several wildly inappropriate laughs...definitely Roger in Roger-form.

We spent Saturday just vegging.  Roger slept a good part of the afternoon.  I worked on paperwork, skimmed through catalogs, worked on Christmas lists, and read books.  Saturday evening we worked on a puzzle.  Its a puzzle I've been working on for the past week and was about to give up when he jumped up and started picking through pieces and working the puzzle.  The clock ticked a way.  Cats kept trying to get our attention by walking across the puzzle....little puzzle pieces sticking to their feet as they walked through.  We chatted away.  Never made much progress on the puzzle but had a nice evening nonetheless.  I finally waved the flag and said I surrendered. Couldn't do any more.  Only to find out it was 1:00 a.m.!!!   We were so absorbed with the puzzle.  Never noticed the time.  I'm waaaaay tooo old to be staying up that late.  I figured a nap would have to be in store for today (Sunday)...not the case.

Today we spent the majority of the day working outside on Christmas lights.  Roger usually starts coming up with ideas of how he wants to hang lights in October.  Naturally, with Roger...you can't just do the same light design as last year.  Ohhhhhhh no.  Its gotta be something new.  The original design was decided to be too physically intensive not to mention too $$$ intensive  (he wanted to rent a cherry picker/bucket truck to hang lights! Really??).  So Plan B involves lights cascading out of hanging baskets around the house amongst other things.  As he got his design planned out and sorted through lights, I trimmed back all my perennial beds, put away miscellaneous flower pots and tucked the gardens in for the winter.  I still can't believe its November on the eve of December! 

We worked the day away until dark (had to see what the lights looked like!).  With achy bones and damp coats and hats from working in the rain, we gave our joint artistic holiday effort a big thumbs up.  I was in the process of oooohing and ahhhhing as the lights went out.  "Hey!! What gives????  Why'd you pull the plugs??"  Roger gave me the look and said, "We can't be the first on the block to turn on our lights."  WHAT?????  Who cares what the neighbors are doing or aren't doing????  Hello???  Holiday lights, happy happy!  Call them November lights.  They don't have to be Christmas lights! Again, I got the look.  Fine.  No lights until after Thanksgiving (that's as long as I'm waiting).  Fortunately I only have a couple days to wait!  As you can tell, I'm absolutely tickled we got our lights up.  I thought there was a good chance we would not have lights this year.   Not sure what we'll be doing about a tree.  Usually we make a day-trip or overnight trip to southern Indiana to a tree farm and cut down our own  tree.  With Roger riding the chemo wave, I don't think we'll be able to make the trek.  Playing it by ear.

As mentioned above, Roger seems to be doing better as the week wore on.  He has been eating more.  He even cooked breakfast for us today!  That hasn't happened in a very very long time.  Appetite has definitely been up.  Can't say that his weight has increased much but we're working on it.

Turkey day is on its way.  Not sure what we're doing for the holiday.  Its a particularly crummy holiday for a person who doesn't enjoy eating. We'll see. Depends on how he is feeling. 

Have a great Monday. 
hugs, a & r