Monday, September 3, 2007: Round 9

Another week has come and gone. Tomorrow we go in for round 9. Round 8 wasn't too bad after the fatigues and nausea passed. We're hoping that this round doesn't bring more nausea. One nice benefit with this new chemo is the constipation. Kristi has been struggling with diarrhea lately so a little constipation would be nice! Seems a little weird talking about this sort of stuff, but hey, it's what we live with on a day-for-day basis. The past 2 weeks has brought 2 serious bag "malfunctions" so the constipation has been nice.

One more thing. Not sure if Kristi is just getting tired of being bald and getting more sensitive or if she just ran into a larger crop of rude people recently, but she's growing tired of the stares. I have noticed it as well. When we went camping a couple weeks ago apparently some kids just gawked at her. She was pretty upset by this. She has ran into this again recently as well. On the bright side, her hair is starting to grow back a little bit with this new chemo. We're hoping that her hair continues to grow so she can have hair by Christmas.

Here are some pictures from my camping trip with the kids (we camped about 5 miles East of Hart on private property - my friend Brian's uncle's stable & farm ):

Nathan enjoying "Blue Moon" ice cream!

Nathan & Ashley at bedtime

Our camp sight

The stable

A panoramic of our camp sight