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Hey girls....guess this is moms night on line :-) The guys had thier fun the other night.....at my expense. Billy had posted a "really-bad" picture of me balancing a spoon on my nose.....don't ask! :-)
anyway, it's nice we moms can talk and express our feelings.
MomBeth...I'm glad too you didn't know about his jump.....when Jason graduated from highschool he went sky diving....I was there....yippppps. I was the one running around on the ground with the pizza box and sponge. I can laugh about it now! :-)
MaryEllen...have agreat visit with Chris this weekend.... I'm sure the conversation will go to last year, but you'll get through it.
.....and please tell him we say Hi.
.................................................. .............Nancy
anyway, it's nice we moms can talk and express our feelings.
MomBeth...I'm glad too you didn't know about his jump.....when Jason graduated from highschool he went sky diving....I was there....yippppps. I was the one running around on the ground with the pizza box and sponge. I can laugh about it now! :-)
MaryEllen...have agreat visit with Chris this weekend.... I'm sure the conversation will go to last year, but you'll get through it.
.....and please tell him we say Hi.
.................................................. .............Nancy
Anyway, I am really excited to see him in the flesh! Mary Ellen, I know how excited you are to see your boy, too! Nancy, to answer your question about what the Social Worker said to Patrick about meeting and bringing up Cancer to other girls that he would meet. I think they talked about how he thought he would bring it up. He didn't go into alot of detail about their whole conversation, and I didn't want to pry too much, but that was what most of their conversation was about. He did say that she said that many of the men she talked with that had tc had substance abuse issues. I don't know if that is just her experience or if that is something that is across the board with tc survivors. Whatever else they talked about, I am not sure, but he felt better after talking to her. It seemed to be a relief to hear someone that knows something let him know that what he was feeling and experiencing was normal and okay! Lanette, what you said makes perfect sense. I spent every night in the hospital with Patrick and woke up and checked his breathing for the first couple of nights after we got home from the hospital - just like when he was an infant. Like you said, it all really mixes us up! Mary Ellen, it is funny that you bring up the thought of a year ago for Chris. It is amazing how fresh everything still feels. Last night I was going through receipts for taxes and came across all of the receipts from the week that Patrick was diagnosed and had that first surgery. It was like a time line of events. As I was holding the receipt of the meal we had with Patrick the night before his surgery, I read it with tears in my eyes. Life changed forever! I pictured him in my mind eating those pork chops and reliving that fog that I was in, wanting it all to be a bad dream. I am not complaining. It has been an incredible journey, but boy are those feelings raw! My husband came home from a meeting, and there I sat in a pile of receipts bawling my eyes out! He said "oh my gosh! What happened!" I handed him the receipts and he sat there blubbering just like me! I talked to Patrick last night and reminded him that his RPLND surgery was 4 months ago yesterday. His reaction was "ew". "That was an awful time". Most of the time he is pretty positive, but I could tell there were some pretty raw feelings there.
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