Christmas Faux Pas

Gosh, I haven't had a lot to say lately.  I've felt almost "normal" lately as the itching I've endured for about a year is finally basically gone.  I've cut way back on the antihistamines, I'm sleeping much better now!  I don't know how acupuncture works, but I'm a fan!  My next challenge will be to straighten out my sleep schedule.  The itching would prevent me from going to sleep, by 2 or 3 a.m. I would pass out from sheer exhaustion.  And then I wouldn't wake up until 11 or 12.  That made 9:00 church nearly impossible to get through.  Sometimes I could make it for Sacrament meeting, but I hardly ever made it to the rest of church.  I just needed more sleep.  I'm grateful our time changed to 10:30 AND that I'm sleeping better.  😃

On the Isaac front, he went back to school on Friday, he's got a lot to catch up on.  He's going to court on Tuesday to face the charges, so we'll see what the consequences on the legal side will be.  Now that there's some distance between us and the "getting caught incident," he seems ... almost relieved?  He's more calm, almost pleasant -- he seems to be taking it seriously.  I'm almost positive he hasn't done drugs (because they'll do a drug test at school in 30 days) and he's very aware of the consequences of a dirty test.

How pathetic am I??!  I just got these off Mat's
phone and laughed my guts out.  I can't believe I
participated in Christmas like this!

He still wants to be somewhere else besides home, but when he's here he seems OK.  He left this morning after we left for church and didn't come home until it was time to go to work, had to get his uniform.  McKinley saw him and said, "Isaac, you're awesome!"  He got a chuckle out of that, and I did too.  He IS awesome and we love him.  We hope he'll use what's happened as an opportunity to turn things around and get back on track.  I don't know that I'll live long enough to see him come back to church, but if I could see him drug free and on some kind of career track, I'm HAPPY!

I have acupuncture again tomorrow, which makes me happy!  My group is on Wednesday, I have chemo on Friday, my next CT scan and ECG are next Monday.  EEK!  I'm praying everything is still stable!  I did a real poor job of taking pictures at Christmas.  I had to get up before I was ready, so I laid on the couch and watched the festivities in a horizontal position from the couch.  Not very successfully!  Mat took pictures!
We probably over-compensated a little this year, spent a little more than normal.  I really made an effort to find things Isaac would like.  We wanted him to feel that despite everything that's happening, we love him, we support him.










































I am conspicuously absent after the presents were opened.  oh. my. HECK!