LeeR did come home late Saturday afternoon--oh, happy day! We celebrated by sitting on the deck watching the deer in "our" field, getting Mexi food from our favorite restaurant Tarahumara, and watching the season 3 finale of Downton Abbey with Kami. A perfect and NORMAL night.
Sunday we had brunch with Kourtney's, Krista's and Kami's families again on the deck and were able to face time with Ben, Caroline, and Baby Benjamin--what a joy! LeeR was able to go to sacrament meeting. Kami and a friend from the ward (Gloria) played a beautiful violin duet accompanied by another friend and very talented pianist Camile. So beautiful and touching. Great talks by missionaries coming and going and a sweet youth speaker talked about girls' camp. Oh, to be young again. Nah, not really. We basked in the love of our ward members and their supportive handshakes, hugs and beautiful expressions of hope, love, and prayer. Unexpectedly our two visiting families stayed for dinner, which ordinarily would have taken us to scrounging in the freezer to feed the troupes, but our sweet Relief Society president MaryAnn, who is herself recovering from knee surgery, "happened" to bring over a beautiful and delicious casserole--enough to feed all 13 of us with about 1/4 cup left over. Yum! Just as we were sitting down Neal (LeeR's oldest brother) and Anne came by with a delicious pan of hot rolls and honey. Double yum!! So good to see and visit with them.
LeeR spent a quiet (if you can call it that) day yesterday preparing for today's colonoscopy. Kori decided to come for a visit and will be here today in time to take him to the procedure and back home again. So I'm taking advantage of that and trying to get some work hours in during my free time today. We are actually hoping that the colonoscopy will reveal a problem so that the blood loss from the past three weeks can be explained and fixed, but it's unlikely that a source will be found. With his having lost that much blood, it is impossible to imagine that he wouldn't have seen signs of blood loss. But they have to rule out an internal bleed anywhere in the GI tract before he can restart the blood thinners, so he's finishing the prep (yuck!) and going through the procedure today. If no bleed is found, we will need to consider the fact that his bone marrow may not be producing red blood cells--our minds aren't yet ready to explore the possibilities and consequences of that. Not today, anyway.
Tomorrow is chemo day, or so we have been told (again). IF nothing is found with the colonoscopy and IF his blood counts are still high from the transfusions, he will begin the chemo around 10:00 tomorrow morning and have another session on Thursday. Here's hoping? Certainly mixed feelings about that.
So many of you have asked what is happening since I didn't post Saturday, Sunday or Monday. There you have it--not a lot, really, except family, friends, and food; music, mayhem, and Miralax; anticipation, angst, and anxiety; and prayers, priesthood, and peace. Guess there really is a lot.
Karen, thanks so much for the update. I've been thinking about you guys!
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