Home Sweet Home

You know i'm a dreamer
But my heart's of gold
I had to run away high
So i wouldn't come home low

Just when things went right
It doesn't mean they were always wrong
Just take this song and you'll never feel
Left all alone

Take me to your heart
Feel me in your bones
Just one more night
And i'm comin' off this
Long & winding road

I'm on my way
Well, i'm on my way
Home sweet home
Tonight tonight
I'm on my way
I'm on my way
Home sweet home

You know that i seem
To make romantic dreams
Up in lights, fallin' off
The silver screen

My heart's like an open book
For the whole world to read
Somtimes nothing--keeps me together
At the seams

I'm on my way
Well, i'm on my way
Home sweet home
Tonight tonight
I'm on my way
Just set me free
Home sweet home

-motley crue

All Quiet on the Eastern Drewry

The blog felt a bit neglected so I decided to add a post. The holiday season has been busy and we're doing well.


We bumped the final treatment back one week so I could enjoy Christmas with everyone rather than experience chemo Christmas, holidays in the hospital, whatever you want to call it. I think I might have celebrated a little too hard already, seeing how I'm home with a cold for the first time since I started this whole trip back in April. Tis the season. It's not bad, I'm just laying low to make sure nothing gets out of hand. The hand sanitizer tables have turned.

I'll keep everyone abreast of any changes and the progress of the final treatment. I will go ahead and confidently predict that the scant remainder of my eyebrows and eyelashes won't make it to see 2007. I've gotten so used to the look that I'm going to miss the big bald guy in the mirror every morning. I've gone from "Who the hell are you?" to having completely adjusted to the look. Rubbing moisturizer all over my head and face after a shower is pretty fun too. Who knows, maybe my hair will grow back black and curly enough to grow an afro. What's life with out dreams...?

It's almost surreal to visualize the rapidly approaching finish line. Completing the year and all my treatments together has a nice feeling of closure about it. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone.

CP

Hairless Holidays

Home again and feeling better already. I think just knowing that I have one treatment left makes everything seem different this time. Our 5th year anniversary will be memorable to say the least, seeing how it was the same day that I came home from the hospital. Somehow we managed to make it a great day and weekend. I couldn't imagine going through this without Ashley. She has been incredible throughout the whole process.

As for now... Get stronger. Enjoy Christmas. Finish Chemo. With luck, enjoy an Orange Bowl victory. After New Years, move on.

We'll be in Raleigh until Christmas weekend then Wilson. Hopefully, I'll have a chance to see many of you.

CP