- I am well-equipped with war terminology, and able to make appropriate sounds.
- I am a good lieutenant and can follow orders...most times.
- I can build Legos (and change batteries on various battery-operated toys).
- I can trash-talk with my 10-year old. By trash talk I mean, "Prepare to be defeated!", "You will never defeat me!", "The adults will take you kids down!" This last was at my son's school game-day with parents. I wasn't joined by the other parents. I soon shut up. Apparently that kind of talk was not appreciated.
- I am not too shabby at Time Crisis.
- I allowed my 4-year old to watch The Princess Bride. All of the adults who recommended it neglected to inform me that they say son-of-a-bitch towards the end of the movie. Nice.
- I am pretty good at soccer, enough so my kids enjoy playing with me.
- I am slowly learning to temper discipline with moderate amounts of flexibility. It is a challenge for me.
- At times I have abandoned discipline altogether.
- I hug my little ones a little bit longer and touch them a bit more frequently than I used to.
Another two-in-one post. I think this may be considered my "challenge" post. The good news is that I have now completed 7 of 12 cycles, so I am looking at the end of chemotherapy. As I look back on my initial post , I realise that I had neglected a key piece of information about the kind of cancer I have. Some women have cancers that are responsive to hormones, (quite simply, it appears that hormones make the cancer grow) and some women don't. I fall into the latter category - I am what is called triple negative. This is not a good thing. On my most recent visit with my oncologist we talked through "the numbers" that is, the survival rates and we assessed again how well my tumour is responding to chemotherapy (not as well as we'd hoped). So these last two weeks have been quite a challenge mentally. It doesn't help that one of the side effects of all of this is a decline in disciplinary standards at our house. Over the course of the summer I w...
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Kevin
Yeah..I found the reactions funny too :)
take it easy,
Sal