cancer sucks. Spending the day in the infusion room yesterday and then coming home to read an update on the little boy in Australia...yup cancer sucks.... thinking of those that are no longer with us tonight, I hate cancer
Jed is ok, even kinda chipper today! So I need not whine right?! Suck it up and deal...but cancer really sucks. I can't believe, when Jed was diagnosed the 1st time, someone told me to be glad because he has the "good cancer".....what a f'd up statement...I better go to bed before I really start to blow-off! See what one day of no sunshine does to me!
Jed is fine eating cinnamon buns...his 3rd, but as he keeps pointing out, if I had let him get the big ones instead of the little ones he would have only eaten 1~ good point. ( i had 2) shh, don't tell
Love J & K

Home from clinic. He got his cytoxin and vincristine. He also had his inhaled antibiotic. He did well, but started to get anxious right before chemo started. They gave him phenergan and ativan...then he was out! Snoring and drooling! I had to wake him up to go pee because he had 4 bags of fluid. He woke up crying....it's the ativan. He was pretty stoned. He ate a happy meal and we stopped at Rita's. ( they have a call list for your fav flavors and yes I am on the list for banana) :) Danny gave Jed the new DSI thingy when we got home! Jed was so happy...and full of ativan... that he started sobbing! Poor guy! He went up to rest...and hung out in the bathroom for a little..feeling yucky but he was back down here showing Kyle his new DSI and taking pics of all of us with it. He is now back upstairs. it will really hit him closer to Thursday. Cytoxin works that way, kind of a delayed effect. Hopefully it won't be too bad this time.
Biggest loser is on, I am just too tired to get on the treadmill...tomorrow I promise..no really! I want a cookie, I deserve a post-clinic cookie....there are no cookies here..:(
Love Jed and Kristin

Yesterday was Livi-Mac's 1st birthday party. She did great. She kinda looks like she is just humoring the adults, letting them do all the stuff they think is so important while she just hangs out! The weather was awesome. Jed played with "the Mac" and with her cousin Ethen all afternoon. He was sweaty and tired last night! Mr. Jim did all the grilling, Grace is in Brooklyn with her fam so she missed the party. Both my grams were there. They both look great.

Today Jed is headed to his dad's and Savannah is taking A to Towson to drop off some papers. Danny and I are going on a motorcycle ride. He wants me to ride with him but I am not sure. I kinda want to ride my own. We'll see, maybe I will just humor him, well and he does have a radio so I can sing real loud in his ear!!!! I'll tell him I will ride with him if he buys me a new headlight for mine! it's only like $400! I'm thinking having me on his bike will not be worth that!

I will put the link to yesterday's pics up on the right.

Hey how about the swine flu thing?? Scary, especially when you have a kid with no immune system...WASH YOUR HANDS PEOPLE!!!!

Love J & K

funny kid

Hey, we spent the morning with Tiersa and the Mac. Tiersa tripped and broke her elbow last night...eeuuww. We went down this morning to help out. Jed stayed while I ran back up and did some laundry....I am Amish now, I hang my stuff out. Anyway while I was gone Jed wore the mac out and they put her down for a nap. Jed straightened up all the toys and put stuff away so Tiersa wouldn't trip again (he said that!). i went back down so T could go to the dr. Mac woke up and we feed her lunch....she's so funny! They didn't do anything to her elbow it just has to heal! Jed and Mac played themselves out! We are now waiting for mom and dad. The 4 of us are going over to see Ma-B for her birthday. I sent flowers today but if I was turning 86 and was sitting in my house and no one came to visit I would be PISSED! So off we go to Glen Rock. I got the tomatoes and peppers planted today. The other veggies should be here tomorrow and I will plant those. I am Mr. Green Jeans,,,,well Ms.

80 degree weather this weekend,,,bring it on baby I am ready. Jed is feeling ok. Tired from all that babysitting but feeling ok. I guess that's all the news.

Our lives just are not that exciting,,,,,I am glad!

Love Jed and Kristin

Happy Birthday to " THE MAC"!!!!! She is the BIG 1 today! Happy Earth day too!!!!

Jed and Danny picking up dan's new bike

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Yes Jed does wear a helmet but this was just for the pic!

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=89664913979&subj=737240675 this link should take you to the video of Savannah and karli sining at the talent show...and winning, it is the full song not just a small clip!

Hey. So, we are supposed to be at clinic today but....they called yesterday evening to say this round of chemo is not to start until next week! Somehow things got confused and when Denise, his nurse, went to check on today's visits she realized Jed was scheduled and she knew he was not to be. We got another week off! Very nice! Wish it would stop raining. Jed and I are taking Danny up to the Harley dealer to pick up his new bike today! He is selling his old one and getting a new one. With the deals we get from work it is kinda stupid to not get a new bike every couple of years. His new one has a radio....whoohoo! Of course i am going to be a stupid one and keep mine! There are not any new bikes out there that I would trade my for.
Jed is still sleeping, he was up late coughing. He is feeling pretty good but can't kick that cough.
I think he and I might go get our veggie plants for our garden today. I was going to wait but I have been checking to forecast and I don't think it will get below freezing again...and if it does we can cover them.
Grace is leaving for New York tomorrow, her daughter and son-in-law are taking her to visit her family in Brooklyn, she hasn't seen them in years.....have fun G...enjoy the ride :)
Tomorrow is also Earth day and "The Mac's" birthday! Saturday is her party. I ordered her "special" gift last night.
On TV they are talking about disciplining other people's kids, I have no problem saying "hey dude, get out of the street or hey leave that other kid alone or if I give a kid something or they want something and they don't say please or thank you I ask them to....I know I'm a bitch, I dislike rude kids! My kids are in no way perfect but the please and thank you thing I am pretty anal about. Both my kids were saying their version of please and thank you before they could say anything else.....one of the very few things that I have done correctly! So I guess that is my "issue" for the day!
Where is the sun, I can't take anymore rain and clouds and fog......this is NOT Seattle!
I think I am finished whining...for now! Gotta go wake sleeping beauty ok sleeping handsome I guess is more appropriate. I noticed he closed his curtains last night to ward off the chance he might see sun in the morning! I am going to bring light to the bat cave. It is just bright enough out to disturb his slumber!
Love Jed and Kristin

Hey all. I didn't realize it has been almost a week! Well really not much has happened. We have been hanging out enjoying our few sunny days....I guess those are gone for awhile...:( Jed is ok. He is very tired and his stomach is hurting on and off but all in all he seems good. Yesterday was Savannah's senior prom. She looked wonderful. Today we went to my parents for dinner...I am so full I could pop. We picked up Gram for dinner and Adam, Tiersa and "The Mac" came too. Wednesday is 'The Mac's" 1st birthday!!! Saturday is her party. We have a gift but I want to get another thing....we'll see! Jed is sleeping already. He has a dentist appointment at 11 tomorrow morning to seal his big people teeth and he has school tomorrow eve. I know he has homework to do but I will let him sleep for now. Here are a couple of prom pics I will put the link to the rest on the right hand side. there are not too many, mine weren't that great! We took some here and then we all trooped over the Kourtney's and took a few more. I guess that's about it. I am also putting up the info for Mini-THON on the right...yes it is that time of year again. This is Savannah's last Mini-THON. She has to pass to baton to the upcoming class. We are hoping to make her last Mini-THON a great success.

I think that's it. I am tired for some reason today!

Love Jed and Kristin

Oh yeah, almost forgot my old people home story...Savannah and I went to pick up Gram at her place. When we pulled up out front there was an old guy with a walker sitting outside. When Gram came out she introduced me..."this is my granddaughter, etc.." The old guy was polite, said hi his name is Tony, he was not all that enthused. I told Tony that the driver was A's Great granddaughter, he sat up and looked into the car and said "oh yea, she's more my speed"! I told him she wouldn't be 18 for a few more weeks and he said "oh that's great that's more my age"!!!!!! Nice old pervert! Boy you get to 40 and even the 80year olds write you off and go for the 18 year olds. Great...I haven't even turned 40 yet and I think it sucks!

Not a thing going on here. Jed stayed in his room all day. His legs are sore and he is coughing. He was a tad upset with me because I told him yesterday the best way to get rid of the sore muscles is to walk it off, the more you move the better you feel. SOOO after being busy all day yesterday he expected to be all better today and when he wasn't he decided he was not getting up. He said he knows he will get better faster by not moving too much! I guess he knows what's best for him! Savannah has off today and tomorrow. Tomorrow eve we go to pick up her prom gown from Kate. It is getting hemmed. Saturday is prom. We are meeting Kyle and his family at a place near Kourtney's to take pics...there is supposedly a pond or something...we always took pics in the front yard, I guess my front yard is too little and not scenic enough! Sidewalk doesn't have a lot of ambiance!
We were going to the farmers market tomorrow...but....it's going to rain of course! I feel kinda crappy anyway. Not really all the way sick just kinda tired and yucky. My dad has been sick for over 9 weeks now, he has had antibiotics and inhalers and is still coughing, my mother is coughing now and feels yucky, The Mac has an ear infection, now I am starting to feel like sh@#!
I think it must be this horrid weather, one day of sun and 70 and 3 days of rain and 45,,,sucks. We need some hardcore sunshine to cook all this crap out of us!Jed is coughing a bunch but I don't think it's what everyone else has. I hope to get rid of it by next week. We have off tomorrow but next week he is to start 4 weeks of all day chemo...I'll have to wear a mask if I'm coughing. I wonder what Jed's counts will be?? We just never know.
Savannah and Kyle have taken over the living room, of course when Jed realized kyle was here he had to make a trip downstairs. As soon as he gets to the living room I hear Savannah..."GO AWAY", poor kid. She has zero tolerance when it comes to him, she's bad anyway but she is off the charts with Jed. As soon as he opens his mouth she is yelling at him. Not that he is an angel, he knows how she is going to react so sometimes he just baits her...she takes that bait every time!
He is back in his room....all is quiet now! Like I said many sentences ago, not much happening here!
Love Jed and Kristin

Sooo, it was SUPER cold and raining pretty hard until 1pm or so. We tried to eat but the wind was whipping through the pavilion so hard I couldn't stop shaking. I was trying very hard to not complain but was almost to the point where I was headed to the car...where there was heat. We went into the arcade for a while and finally the rain stopped and the sun came out! It was still cold and breezy but if you were in the sun it was good. The boys had a blast, they weren't that upset about the rain but Jed was starting to get cold...so glad the sun showed up. They rode quite a few roller coasters....even DJ! He has decided coasters aren't too bad. Jed was starting to drag around 4. Last year we had a wheel chair so the fact that he did all that walking this time is amazing. We headed over to chocolate world, I only do that for the free chocolate! We got milkshakes and headed home, by then I was pulling Jed. Last night he got a few really bad leg cramps...his chicken legs aren't used to all the walking! He is still coughing a lot, it comes in fits. He went down to Grace and Jim's today so I guess he's not feeling too bad. He went to help Jase hunt for eggs. When he gets here, which should be soon I am taking him to DJ's for birthday cake (it's D's birthday!). My momma is sick...has what my dad had I think, so we are not having dinner at her house. Savannah and I are going to take flowers to Gram and then I'm coming home to make chicken tacos....way better than ham, but I have to make them....:( I think that's all the news for now. Savannah is on her way home from work. Danny is upstairs working on a guitar??? I am waiting for Jed and wondering if I am really tired or starting to get sick....I feel kinda funny....more than normal. I guess we will see!

Love Jed and Kristin

Headed to hershey park today. Weather people say it's going to stop raining soon......hope so. It's raining pretty hard. yipee. Jed is so excited though, he got all his clothes laid out last night. We pick DJ up at 9:30. Please let it stop raining soon!!!
Love J & K

Me and "The Mac"...nice tongue chickie!

Hey. So we made a quickie run to Hershey this afternoon. Jed has been coughing and this morning (well11:30) he woke up crying and with a fever. I called clinic because he is scheduled to be there tomorrow but they wanted to see him and do a chest xray. We ran up and they did all their tests. His xray looked ok and his blood counts are still good. They decided we could leave but gave him an inhaler. He had one for the last 2 years of his first treatment. He could never kick the cough, I am hoping this isn't the same kinda thing. I gave him Tylenol and his fever has not returned so as far as I'm concerned it's all good. I was only really worried because my dad has had bronchial pneumonia for almost 3 weeks now and Jed was around him before we knew what was going on with him. But it's not an issue and Jed just has a cough.
The good news is now we don't have to go up tomorrow and we don't return until the 21st! Then he is to start cytoxin iv meds again.
That's it for now....Savannah is moping around here, she looks like someone ran her over, headache i think.
Gotta go
Love J & K

Howdy. The end of another weekend, where do they go??!! Yesterday DJ came over to hang out with Jed and then Danny took both boys to see Fast and Furious. Jed was so happy to see D he didn't stop talking the whole day Danny said! I went with Savannah to our old friend Kate's house so she could hem her prom dress. Weird how you don't see people for years and then you pick up right where it all stopped! Kate looks great and her dog Barney is the best! Today we were just hanging around and then we decided we were wasting a great day. Danny and I borrowed the old red truck from Adam.....I have been borrowing that truck for 19 yrs!!! We went and got wood and dirt....lots. We made 2 raised beds in the back yard to plant veggies in. We need a little more dirt and the veggies!!! I am going to attempt to grow some good stuff. Last year we tried to grow some in a pot on the deck and our peppers were miniature and the tomatoes had black dots on the bottom.......I so hope this works better! We shall see!
Jed has a crappy cough, he does this hacking thing and sounds like an old man...makes me want to gag! I think it's just a cold. Other than that he seems pretty good. He needs a hair cut again but is insisting that he only needs the very front trimmed....yeah right, he looks like he is wearing a bowl on his head!
Next Saturday We are going to Hershey park for our work picnic. OOHH I know it sounds bad but I so don't want to go!!!! but we always take DJ and the boys have so much fun. I also don't know how much longer this will happen. I mean work could stop the picnics or the boys could just grow apart but well I guess I'm just lazy! As long as it doesn't rain it will be ok! Savannah is taking Kyle.
I guess that's it for now. I think is supposed to rain tomorrow.....yuck
Savannah is basking in the glory of the talent show win! Facebook was buzzing! There were actually a few snide comments from the kid that ALWAYS wins.....evidently he doesn't do second place well!!! Too bad!
Talk to you later.
Love Jed and Kristin

Gram with the talent show winners!!!!

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Savannah Gram and Karli

WINNERS!!!!!!!!!!!! Savannah and Karli won the talent show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Howdy. How is everyone? Everyone here is fine. Jed and I went to York's central market yesterday with Grace, Megan, Jase, and their cousin Marla and her 2 boys.....we had a big crew! Jed ate fries and a corn dog. I got a crab cake sandwich and bought some veggies. That market kinda sucks and the prices are not that good. But hey it was a couple hours out. Danny and I were back downtown last night with Adam and Tiersa. We ate at an Italian place called Colosseo. It was very good. Then we went to the Strand to see Brian Adams....he was fantastic, sounds just like he always has. It was fun, nice to be out. Of course the food and the vodka totally screwed the fact that I worked out everyday day this week and ate pretty well.....that's all wiped away! Jed went down to help mommo babysit "the Mac". She still has a little cold but Jed was thrilled to see her. Jed seems to be feeling ok, besides some stomach issues...(what else is new). Doesn't stop him from eating a corn dog!
Tonight Savannah is singing in the talent show at school with Karli...wish she was singing alone but it will be good. She just text me to say a long time friend of hers might move in for awhile. The parents are getting divorced and the mortgage can't be paid so mom and brother are going to the gram's..not enough room for her friend...the dad is at his mom's already..that sucks. We have known this child since the 4th grade. Love her, she can stay as long as she wants. I think that's all that's going on for now.
I guess I have to drag myself to the treadmill and try to make a dent in the damage I did last night! uugghhh.I don't wanna!!!! Vodka at night does not make one want to work out in the morning!!!!! lesson for me i guess...yipeee I think I'll let Jed sleep a little longer.
Love Jed and Kristin