Happy Mother's Day!

Sorry for this late update. I actually wrote this before I wrote Brodys Last Day but I guess it never got posted. I'm still trying to navigate around this thing. Anyway here is the post.


I don't even know where to begin... We left on sunday, yes mother's day! I got to spend 8 wonderful hours in the car with my children, it was quite the treat ;) All kidding aside it actually wasn't that bad, Mia slept most of the time and Brody watched DVDs. They are better at traveling then I give them credit for. My mom followed us up in her car as well, which was a huge help. We made it to Reno about 4ish and headed straight to our rental apartment. (I now remember why I was so happy to move out of a apartment 5 years ago). Apartments are so dang noisy. But it's really nice and perfect for what we need right now.


Side story: this story is just kinda typical of my life :) So about a hour before getting to town my back was bothering me, so Donnie said he had some pain pills (he's been having really bad headaches). He said they were non narcotic and to take two, so I did. Well about 30 mins later I climbed in the back seat with Mia because she was starting to get crabby. I started to feel like I was getting motion sickeness from sitting in the back, which happens to me a lot. When we made it to the rental place I was coming out of my skin and I couldn't figure out why. Finally I figured out that it had to be the pills donnie gave me because by the time I made it into the leasing office I was as high as a kite. My mom kept telling me it sounded like I had cotton in my mouth. Cool, cotton in my mouth, just what I wanted to sound like. I'm sure the office lady thought I was a looney toon! She gave us the keys and we started to unpack, well my mom and Donnie started to unpack. It was so awful, I had so much to get done on our first night. I felt like those people you watch on intervention, where they are falling asleep during the interview. And the uncontrollable itching was enough to kill me. Seriously though, that was the worst experience, who would ever want to spend every day like that. I'm sure mine was some weird reaction but really. I was having hallucinations of cutting vegetables with Katy Perry. I just kept thinking Happy Mother's Day to me ;) Anyway, thank God for my mother because my children and husband probably would have went hungry with no clothes!


Back to the real story :) Donnie started treatment Monday morning, he had a really bad migraine that morning so they decided not to do chemo that day and do immune boost iv treatments instead because they didn't want to stress his body out more than it already was. The first treatment went really well, he has just been really tired. He had his first chemo treatment yesterday morning and that went really good too. His treatments normally take about 3 hours. I was able to sit with him for the first 2 because my mom was here to watch the kiddos but I'll be just dropping him off from now on. Which he is fine with, he just plays on his iPad and reads and stuff, it's really not too bad. Overall, he's tired and doesn't have much of a appetite, he's lost a good amount of weight but that probably due to his diet change. Other than that he's doing really good. Happy that treatment is finally started and excited for the end results. We are still trying to get settled and find our way around Reno. But so far so good! xoxo