Howdy. We are home! He is feeling good. We had to stop at the grocery store of course. He wanted spaghetti... with my mom's sauce. He said he'd call her and she could tell him how to make it. He didn't realize it's an all day thing! I got him to settle for my sauce....prego! I added stuff though. Chicken browned in garlic, green peppers and hot sauce. Not too bad for someone that does not like to cook. Jed liked it and I didn't have to buy steak! He is on the couch now watching Alvin and the Chipmunks. We are very glad to be home.

I can write this and tell everyone because Jed doesn't read his own blog...only the comments and checks out the pictures to give his approval. So, anyway, Amy DJ's mom, called today to tell me that the local school of art and design has chosen Jed's room as their community service project!!!!! How very cool is that? I don't have any details or anything but they can do whatever they want! well, it has to have some Penn State stuff in it! I am so excited and sooo relieved that I don't have to do it! Jed does not know yet. As soon as Amy and I get details we will find a way to surprise him. It does sound kinda funny, Jed's room is a community service project! If you saw it you would agree it is a project! Oh what a relief, it will be way cooler than anything I can do and I don't have to do it!!!!! I will keep you all updated about "the project"!

So anyway we are home, tomorrow my grandmother is making a visit to see our new baby and Jed and I will go see her too. Tomorrow is my birthday also...whoo-wee, my last year in my 30's......how depressing but I guess it's better than the alternative. We have clinic on Friday, just for blood counts. Saturday night is Savannah's show choir mini musical. Sunday is Savannah's birthday...17 how in god's name did she get so old so quick? Sunday is also the Make-A-Wish truck convoy, I think DJ is going with us. It's good we are home our social schedule is busy this weekend!!! Ok that's all folks...for now. Love Jed and Kristin

Hi, he is feeling better..well at least he was until he found out he was having school this afternoon! If he has no fever we will leave tomorrow. He got a bag of blood today and his counts are going up so all should be good. Cross your fingers! Love J & K

Hi, still here. No fever since early this morning but he still has a lot of bone pain. He managed to get up for bingo though! His white count went from.2 to .4 so we are moving up!!!!! Gotta go Love J&K

Hey all, we are in the hospital. We came in late this morning through the ER. He woke up with a fever of 103.4. His white count is .2 and he had to have a bag of platelets. They started 2 antibiotics so hopefully we will get this knocked out quick and get out of here. Next Sunday, (Savannah's birthday), is the Make-A-Wish truck convoy that we missed last year. We don't want to miss it again. SO anyway we are in room 7255. That's all for now. Back to the bat cave.
Love Jed and Kristin

Jed and Olivia

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Jed and his cousin

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Farmer Jed

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Here is Jed today planting his herbs! Tomato and pepper too~

Hi all, we have a new member of the family!!!!
Olivia McKenna Buckley was born today at 11:51 am. She is 7lbs 19". Savannah and Mommo and I were there from 3am until late this afternoon. Jed & Hop came after all the excitement died down! Jed is doing well. He was busy today, I don't know how he can be in bed asleep basically for a week and then get up and go all day. He spent the afternoon at Gracie's playing with Jase. Jed is very tired now though!!!!!!
Thanks to Christie and Katie from Gamma Phi for stopping to visit us in the hospital. It was great for Jed to have bingo and card game partners!!!!
Love Jed and Kristin

Home again, home again, piggly wiggly................yea~!

So here is where we stand as of now (11:30 am Monday). They are going to draw labs @ 4pm, if his potassium is up we can go home tonight. They need to make sure he is making his own potassium. He has to drink...and he really wants to go so he is drinking! I'll let ya'll know what's up!
Love Jed and Kristin

Well, no fever but he is still pukey. So since he can't keep stuff down we are staying until tomorrow. We missed the sunny nice days anyway. Cross your fingers. Love, J & K

Hi we are still here. He had a fever last night of 102.5 so no gettin out today! Right now he is getting blood. We are hoping for tomorrow. I'll let ya'll know. Love Jed and Kristin

Hey. yup still here. We could be sprung tomorrow afternoon. He has to go all night with no fever and has to start drinking. He also has to be able to take all his meds orally and
(keep them down). So we will see! Nana and Pappaw are here so I got to run out to the computer, and of course I have to go to gamestop.com and print a list of new games so he can shop. Can't tell you how much fun we're havin'! I heard a rumor that it was awesome outside..oh yipee. Maybe tomorrow............please! back to the bat cave, boy wonder will start to get worried!
Love Jed and Kristin

Hey, still here . Chemo is finished but he has had fevers all night and all day today. Very nauseous, heavily medicated...feels like @#$%!
Gotta go,
Love J and K

Hi from Hershey Med Center. The bat cave room # this time is 7252...717-531-4852. He is doing really well..compared to how he usually is. Chemo hasn't started yet but it will within the hour. His anxiety level doesn't seem to be as high as normal....thank goodness. I hope he stays this way.We will see.. So that's all here.
Love J & K

Hi, well it's Tuesday so of course we are headed to Hershey. I am packing up for an anticipated 4 day stay....we'll see. He has been doing well and has been busy. Sunday we went to Uncle Adam & Tiersa's for a cook out. The Hildebrand clan was there..a wonderful surprise. My Gram and Jack came up..they look great and of course Mommo and Hop. Yesterday I had an appointment and Jed had to get up and go with me so I bribed him with breakfast. While we were eating Grace and Jase came so Jed went home with them! He stayed all day and Jim brought him home. I got to do laundry and paint stuff...whoo! I guess that's it. I'll let ya'll know what happens. Is the weather getting nice or what?...I am soo happy! I know my motorcycle is just waiting for me! Love J & K

Hi! Yesterday was Hershey Park day. We missed it last year so this was a big deal! The weather that was supposed to be horrible turned out to be amazing! Jed and DJ had a blast. It was D's birthday too. Jed did very well, we got a wheelchair for him, at first he ignored it but after awhile he realized it saved his energy to ride. He was completely exhausted when we left but that did not stop him from eating ice cream cake and playing Rock Band at D's house when we got home! He did get a tad crabby but I think we all did by the end of our Hershey adventure. It was a great day. I have a nice "farmer" tan (burn). Danny rode a lot of rides this year! He didn't scream too loud either! Savannah and Cassie went up without us, we saw them once! I'm glad you found your phone Cassie!

Today is a cook out at Uncle Adam's. The baby will be here soon!! Yea!!!!! Hurry up and give us our baby!

It's so nice that the sun is out and the weather is warming up. Jed and I are going to get started on his herb garden on the deck. I even got to ride my motorcycle last week to an appointment....wonderful.

Roxanne (LV"S Mommy), I was so glad to get your comment. Keep fighting, we are thinking of you all the time. Jed's says "you can do this"!

Ok, gotta run and finish my deviled eggs (doubled eggs as Jed always called them).

Love, Jed and Kristin

Home again! Yea I am glad. His counts are not high enough but he did not need blood. OH the drama though. I feel so bad for him he gets over the top anxious every Tuesday. By the time we get up there he is just about freaking out. He just sobs and says he is in so much pain. But the weird thing is when Dr. Blackall stops by to talk to him he says he is fine and whenever the Dr starts talking about distracting himself and learning to relax Jed says..I'm fine. As soon as he leaves Jed is sobbing again and in immense amounts of pain. Then when it's time to see Dr. Unger he stops crying and says he feels ok and is learning to distract himself before it all gets out of control yadda yadda. Of course when he is gone Jed is sobbing and telling me to leave him alone and he hates his life etc... This freaks out the nurses and they run to Dr. Unger and when Dr. Unger comes by Jed shuts up. I know he is always in pain but he gets so worked up when we go to clinic that it makes the pain worse and it's funny how he does most of this when it's just me or me and the nurses. I hate to down play it but he seems to like just really getting into it! he refuses to do ANYTHING to distract himself or relax himself...unless a Dr. is around, well at least a Dr. he knows knows him well! The whole day is such a trauma. He was so worked up he told all the nurses that he had to get a room because he was too sick to come home. We stopped at Burger King on the way home and he ate a big kids meal??!!! Hop drove...thank goodness. Jed is just as dramatic as Savannah I think. I guess he is entitled to a little drama. I just wish he wouldn't wallow in it! He has been sleeping since about 4pm...wore himself out! Not me, I get to the point where I'm wired! I drug the dog around town and sat in the sun for a little..YEA SUN! Oh well the day is over and Biggest Loser is on.....relax!!! at least until about midnight and Jed wants food! Love Jed and Kristin

HI. Well it's Tuesday again, so that means off to clinic. I am hoping to be sent home today and NOT kept for chemo. Saturday is Hershey park day for work and last year we missed it. Saturday is also DJ's birthday and he goes to Hershey with us. I guess we will see. I have to go pack, I was supposed to do it yesterday, I started but just couldn't do it! Now I HAVE to! I'll let ya'll know where we are tonight! Love Jed and Kristin

Hi. It is so quiet here on Sunday..I'd like to say morning but it is almost 2:30 in the afternoon. I am the only one awake...I slept in too..9am for me. I went and got my McD's coffee, bought the dog a muzzle maybe if I don't have to stress about him biting someone I will walk him. I came home and gave Danny my coffee to sip on while I walked the dog...he drank it all, surprise! Jed has had a busy couple of days. I thought for sure we would have to go back to clinic by Thurs or Friday for blood but he is doing great. He spent all day on Friday with Grace & Jase. He stayed until Jim got home and went to dinner with them! Saturday he went to the movies with his little brother and dad. He played the rest of the afternoon with him. He is sore and stiff and bruised, as you can imagine, from the fall down the stairs but he really has been active. He was asleep last night before 11pm..wow! He is still sleeping now! I think he has to catch up. Tuesday we are supposed to be admitted for 4 days of chemo but his counts were low last week and he hadn't bottomed out yet from the last chemo. But with Jed you just never can tell! So that means I have to pack up everything just in case. Great...love that. I am hoping he gets another week off, but we will see.
Savannah is still snoozing too. Her new work schedule starts next week... every Sat and Sunday from 7-1 and Thurs for a few hours so she said today is her last day until the end of school to sleep in..she really meant that! Danny of course is mentally preparing himself for another week of work..that means he is alternating watching TV and sleeping.
I think I'll go get more coffee. I don't make my own because I can't. It never tastes right...ask my family I am barred from making coffee at any one's house. McD's should deliver!
The dog had a walk...whooo hoo, I feel bad it as been awhile and he needs to walk everyday but you know, it was cold, I do not do well in the cold, and he bites people, big problem and he does not like other dogs. I have tried walking him at all hours of the day and night, I have NEVER not seen someone else walking their dog..no matter what time! So now he has his new muzzle..not happy and maybe one day he will be good enough to walk without it. We saw 1 dog this morning and I think Bandit was embarrassed by his muzzle because he looked the other way!
Well I guess I should go wake up Jed and see what he wants to eat. I ate all the Chinese takeout leftovers for breakfast.
That's it from here, the Sunday house of Silence! Love Jed and Kristin
Wait...I hear movement upstairs!

Today is much better than yesterday! Jed woke up around noon and was in an ok mood. Hop came over because I had a Dr. appointment...more paper work. When I got back they were playing Wii and Jed was yelling and jumping around! A completely different kid from yesterday. Much Much easier to deal with. When he is sick and depressed it makes me feel the same way. When he is smiley and happy I feel so much better..and it is all about me right?!
He made his dinner, oven fried chicken, corn on the cob and roasted potatoes with parsley. Pretty good.
I think I am going to get Jed to start an herb garden either in pots on the deck or a spot next to the house. Then he will have his own herbs to cook with.
Ok, that's it here. Love Jed and Kristin

Just in case anyone is interested, it is now 11:36 pm, Jed is awake and we are cooking a roll of cinnamon buns (just what I need) and watching Family Guy...I know, I know, no lectures please, yes it is an edgy show and yes they say stuff that even I am shocked about but Jed loves this show so I guess, just give me a bad mom award! Thank goodness 90% of the jokes go right over his head..for now! He just finished an ice cream cone. I hope all this stays down. He is pretty chipper, dancing around the kitchen with his pot holder! Amazing what a difference a nap makes. Alrighty, the buzzer is going off...hot buns are ready! These things are so good they should be illegal.
Love Jed and Kristin

Hi spinal tap day is over... yea. He woke up in a great mood..not normal so I thought oh good he's not too freaked out we should have a good day, considering he has a procedure. He was fine all the way there and then he started to get anxious and then he felt sick but he calmed himself with a new game on his DS. of course the battery went dead and he didn't bring his charger. So it was back to being miserable. When we got to the OR and when he got up on the table he was so chatty to the girls and Dr. Freiburg. He went out immediately when they gave him his "white stuff". Everything went fine and he woke up immediately after they were all finished. I usually have to wait at least an hour. I even bought a new magazine to read..oh well. He was in a pretty good mood. He hadn't eaten since the night before so we had to do the KFC stop on the way home. In the car he ate 2 pieces of chicken, a half of a biscuit and 2 servings of mashed potatoes and gravy! While he was eating all this he talked about what he wanted for dinner! He decided we would go home, he would find some recipes he liked, he would make a list and I could take him to the store to get it all. Ok, fine whatever you want..what am I supposed to say? I'd like to say "Jed, I hate the grocery store, it takes all my money and whatever I buy is gone in a day. We should eat cereal." Of course that is not what I said, well I might have..in a joking manner. Anyway as soon as we get in the door he runs upstairs and throws up all his KFC. YUCK. Poor guy, he laid down for a little, then he got up and looked at a cookbook. He made his list and Savannah drove us to the store, he shopped, we just followed behind. We saw Uncle Adam. Jed wanted a chocolate shake from McDonald's & I needed coffee (Savannah says I'm a loser because I like McD's coffee better that Starbucks, whatev). So as soon as we get home he runs up the stairs and throws up all his milk shake...eeeuuu. He was miserable, he wanted to cook his dinner but he felt horrible, he was hungry but too pukey to eat and on top of all that he is sore, stiff and bruised from falling down the stairs yesterday. Yes, he fell all the way down. If you have ever seen our stairs than you know how not nice it would be to fall down them. They are VERY steep and wood. They have traction strips on them but he missed it and his foot slid and he just went all the way down..on his back. His back is scraped and bruised. His bones always hurt anyway so this just makes it that much worse. Poor guy. He is sleeping now in our bed, I filled him full of pain and nausea meds. I might just let him sleep with Danny so I don't have to wake him up. We used to all fit in that bed but not anymore, I'll sleep in his room. It was so nice out and he didn't get to enjoy it at all. His blood counts are right on the line but Dr. Unger didn't want to give him blood yet so that means we might have to go back up there later in the week if he feels bad. How do I tell if he feels bad from chemo or he feels bad because he needs blood?! Anyway Dr. Unger was off to Rome this afternoon, he says its for a conference..yea, ok. All in all this day sucked but the weather was wonderful. It's almost 8pm and just now getting dark...love that! So that's the saga of our day...poopy as it was we have had worse. Tomorrow will bring better things..I hope. I just want him to feel better. Next Tuesday we are supposed to be admitted for 4 days of chemo but I doubt if his counts will be high enough. He hasn't really bottomed out yet from this last round. I'll keep you posted. Hi to teacher Amanda...get better soon.
Thanks to all of those that have given or are giving to Mini-THON. We are appreciative of everything. Hildebrands.. YOU ROCK! Awesome family.
Well I guess I'm going now, maybe I'll read some more of A New Earth..ya know that Oprah book? I shouldn't even get started talking about that book. I want so bad to do what it says but..yea right, Biggest Loser is on..much better. Love Jed and Kristin