Well folks, the Big Dance has officially come and gone. It took all of 2 hours, including the prep. If you don't believe me, check out the picture Leslie posted earlier today. Speaking of which, I received a call from church member Donna this evening telling me that picture was truly ugly and in fact she said I was ugly- huge round head and no hair. She was laughing but stopped long enough to make a comparison by saying I was uglier than she was, when she was undergoing chemo for her cancer and lost all of her hair. I'm lost for words!
In any event, this wasn't "The Big Dance". It was one dance of many more to come related to "stan and leslies texas adventure". I had a good talk with my nurse today about what can we expect next and it all revolved around stopping infections- fungal, bacterial, & viral. So we have been preparing for that since last week and that work continues today with new IV treatments and a new batch of "oral medicines", we use to call them pills. The other little dance that has to occur is my new stem cells have to find nice places to live in my bone marrow in order for them to reproduce and eventually kill any cell they determine is foreign. It seems so simple but of course, as most things in life, it isn't. We'll take life one day at a time and see where we are tomorrow.
On a lighter side, I may hold another record aside from being the ugliest. It seems the first 3-4 days as an in-patient, I gained 19 lbs. all liquid of course. Well finally the powers to be decided I need to shed (perhaps in the term watershed comes to mind) some of the liquid. Yep, I got Lasix and they got yellow liquid gold, 5 liters worth overnight. One nurse heard of my feat and said that he was told I gave back 10 liters that night. In any event, beat that Donna!
More dances to come. I pray we will be prepared. Keep asking the Lord to prepare Leslie & I for whatever dance is next in this big adventure. I feel so lifted up, not by any good deeds of mine, but by all of your prayers. Asking the Lord God Almighty to watch over us. Leslie & I are truly blessed and highly honored.
Stan
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Stan-okay now the whole world knows I called you ugly. I'm glad you at least told the bloggers that I called myself ugly! You beat me on the lasix. They made a mistake with me and I ended up ruining about 6 pair of undies before they corrected it! Seriously, take one day at a time through the dance and try not to get ahead of yourself. You and Leslie are in our prayers. Remember Matthew 19-26 - with God all things are possible. He can even turn ugly people back to beautiful. You are beautiful on the inside always. Always keep your humor. It helped me get through the rough days. We love you Stan and remember God loves you too!!!
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