Saturday, July 5, 2014

Count your blessings, celebrate your victories


Ric has been gone for 5 weeks. He is having the best time with his dad in Puerto Rico. He has been in basketball camp, so he is in heaven! He has been feeling well and has been able to participate fully in basketball camp.

This past week he had a CBC done. Platelets are looking great at over 200,000, which is fantastic! White blood cells went down a bit, but still within his "new normal". Those pesky white blood cells are so freaking stubborn!!!! He is still off medication, so the fact that he has been pretty stable gives us a lot of peace of mind.

Today, I am counting our blessings. I am so happy that he is getting to enjoy his Summer in PR. So happy he gets to spend time with his dad and extended family down there. So happy he has gotten to have normalcy. Last Summer we were in the middle of chemo. This Summer he is having a blast and is stable. That is the biggest blessing. 

I have dealt with him being away fairly well. I am actually enjoying the break. I know that sounds awful, but not having to worry 24/7 about possible symptoms arising is nice.  I feel it is giving me strength for when we go down the roller coaster again. We miss him terribly, though. The boys are missing him terribly too! This morning at breakfast William said to me "When Ric comes back he is going to be so much taller than you!". That is another blessing, the fact that this terrible thing is still allowing him to grow as any teenager would.

The biggest blessing of all, of course, is that today we are good. Today, Ric feels fine and it doesn't look like shit is going to hit the fan anytime soon. Today, we all have our health and, seriously, what is more important than that?