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All Three Asleep at 2:30pm
By Margot | March 7, 2009
It’s 2:30 on a Saturday afternoon and all three boys are asleep downstairs. Sam finished his last day of irrino today and now he gets a little chemo rest before the next round. Our food honeymoon is over. He’s really not had much appetite this week and threw up twice today. Other than that though he’s been to school every day and tolerated the oral chemo pretty well (easy for me to say). He got an A+ on his Gandhi report. He was so cute and I was so proud of him. He presented the whole thing so smoothly. His last sentence was,”I chose Gandhi because he was a risk-taker and he changed the world.” I don’t have pictures but we did get some video – on my list of things to do is learn video and the website as soon as I have a few more hours. He had a sheet around him and some round glasses but at the last minute decided he didn’t want to wear the mustache we bought him.    The kids asked questions at the end and someone asked Sam who shot Gandhi and he said, “Uh, a Hindu from Britain.” It was funny, slightly confused there. It was good for the kids to learn about Gandhi, he taught a lot of great life lessons. I was glad to learn more about him too.  I used the movie throughout all of high school every time my dad would start to lament when I was going to a movie with my friends about what trashy movies we saw, I would bring up the fact that I saw Gandhi. I think in college,my dad finally started to ask, “How long are you going to use Gandhi?” I didn’t remember much of it and it is an awesome movie if you ever need a rental -not necessarily young kid oriented some parts need to be skipped.
Sam had his first soccer practice this week and both boys went to both practices so they had two hours of soccer practice this week. Tomorrow are the first games for both boys though Andy won’t be playing in his.
 Andy is knocked out from the stomach flu and a sinus infection. Frankly, he’s been as sick as I’ve ever seen him. He hasn’t left the couch for the last three days, he’s had nonstop fever, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, etc.  We’ve been back to the pediatrician twice now and she has called twice today to see how he’s doing. We have to watch for dehydration because the poor guy can’t have many fluids left in his little body.  He’s not big on taking any medicines at all -not even buggle gum flavored tylenol or the melt away stuff, he doesn’t like gingerale, gatorade, bananas, or most things that are soft on the tummy. We’re pretty much limited to popsicles. I keep thinking he’ll turn the corner but so far he’s been consistently miserable for three straight days. Hoping tomorrow is the day and hoping that Sam built up an immunity to whatever it is with his bout with it a couple of weeks ago.
Charlie is asleep because it’s his nap time. He’s doing well – calling people “dufus”, and “nutjob” a lot. “Dufus” comes from Andy and “nutjob” is pretty much said affectionately by the whole family – though it’s funny coming from our two year old. He loves his little gym class and does all the songs and exercises. He and Jett have become fast friends. He’s coming along in swimming – getting a new teacher on Monday to see if he’ll come along any faster. He is a very funny guy.
Sam’s numbers for last week were: VMA: 29 HVA 28 Lowest combined total in quite a while so good we think.  I would rather not have him asleep downstairs in the middle of the day but I push a lot and he’s just finished four days of chemo so he’s having a nap and no need for me to freak out about it. See how calm I am;-)? Really though, he looks good. We have to keep weight on him now.
More later this week. I’ll try not to go so long between updates.
Margot
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Topics: Progress Reports | 1 Comment »
March 9th, 2009 at 12:02 am
Glad the project went well. I need to call you later to ask about lemonade stand. It is becoming quite the event for Magicwaters. We hope to raise some money!!! Angela Rowe (Madison’s Mom)