Last weekend was moving the rest of Dan's stuff out of his apartment in Bristol, RI. We rented a cargo van and packed it to the gills and Dan packed more stuff in his car. Amazing how much he accumulated in 1.5 years. Unpacking took much less time than I had expected. Some things ended up upstairs in the garage, some in the basement, some in Dan's room, and some is still in the garage or on the back enclosed porch. But Dan is sorting through things and some of his stuff is being blended into the household (like cleaning and laundry supplies, some cooking utensils, etc.).
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| Ed and Dan loading up the van. |
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| The van mostly loaded. We did add more... |
On one of his days off this week, Dan rearranged his bedroom to fit in some more furniture that he brought home with him. It actually looks good. Dan continues to chip away at his thesis book. His goal was to finish by last week, but that didn't happen. So now he's attempting to finish it by today. He spends time working on it at night after work and on his days off and weekends. Of course, moving and packing/unpacking kinda threw off his productivity last week. He's planning to go to Long Island next week to see his girlfriend, so he better have his book done or Mom won't allow him to go!! lol
Ed had another treatment this week on Monday. Bloodwork still looks good and the Dr. B. believes his liver is shrinking again (although I don't remember him ever saying it was getting larger again...but whatever...). We will plan for another CT scan in March. Ed hopes that if things look good we can cut back on one of the chemo drugs. Time will tell there...
Dan and I were all prepared that Ed would not be feeling well when he got home Monday so we planned dinner and I also lectured Ed that he shouldn't plan on running errands afterwards but instead come home and rest. It seemed to do the trick since he was feeling okay Monday evening and Tuesday. But by Wednesday, he was feeling queasy and tired again. Thankfully Dan cooked dinner on Wednesday (since he had the day off) and so Ed could come home from work and rest. By Friday he still wasn't feeling great and so came home from work early. Hopefully he'll be feeling better by Sunday. We'll see. At this point, we're just planning to lay low over the weekend.
We are beginning to take into account in our plans the fact that Ed doesn't feel well the week of treatment. If we're looking to do something (such as go away, go out to dinner, etc.), we are now avoiding treatment week. But, all-in-all, certainly nothing we should be complaining about. We are still much more fortunate than others and need to remind ourselves of that during this tougher days.
This weekend we celebrate our nephew Nick's 13th birthday (not sure how he got that old) and we'll be staying home to watch the Superbowl. Ed's friend Mike invited us to his house, but since Ed is not feeling 100%, we're planning to just stay home. Can you believe it's been 6 years since we've watched the Superbowl with Dan?! We really are so happy to have him home with us right now!
Go Patriots!!
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| Dan and his roommates (Matt & Nate) on the front porch of their apartment. A good group of guys. |
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