We now have a slide!!!
The perfect rainbow (taken from our front porch).
We are still missing the swings (we are on step 75 out of 99).
I can hardly believe that we are 2 radiation treatments away from the end! Dan and I will not know what to do with ourselves without that trip to the cancer center each day. If you have to get radiation, the Cancer Institute is a wonderful place to go. The staff treat us like family and we have grown very fond of the patients who share our general appointment time. The doctors are more like buddies than anything else. It is fun to sit and visit with other cancer patients and their caregivers. We all get excited when someone "graduates" from treatment, or gets a port removed, or gets their radiation dose lessened. I have to say that if you want to hang out with some pretty remarkable people, hang out at a cancer treatment facility. Most of the people you meet will have their priorities in order (or they are actively looking for a way to do it).
Danny is out in the yard working on the playground with his friend, Erec, as I compose this blog. I just took a couple of photos that I will add. This playground will be better built than our house. The directions say that it takes 2 moderately skilled individuals to put it together. The directions fail to mention that the 2 moderately skilled individuals will be master craftsmen by the time that the project is completed. Tomorrow we will get in a 13 foot magnolia to try to block the mega playhouse from street view.
As you can tell from our playground, Danny doesn't do anything by halves. He attacks every project (including his cancer) head on. Dan is pushing through these last few days of treatment with the same intensity. He has had to take some afternoon naps, but all in all he is astoundingly tough. I know that he is looking forward to some real rest and healing over the weekend. Our prayers for this weekend are specifically for the chemo and radiation to have been effective and for God to use Dan's body at a cellular level to destroy any of the cancer that may have been left behind.
Thank you for your prayers for travel mercies. Danny's parents made it safely to Odessa, and my parents and our children arrived in Highlands this morning without a hitch. Danny and I will head up the road on Thursday following his "graduation" from radiation.
Dan and I have spent our time together (without children) discussing the many blessings in our lives. We are so appreciative of all of you. It has been humbling, to say the least, to see your posts each day. There have been many early morning hours that were warmed by the gift of your written words. We even go back to the beginning and re-read your messages on really hard days. Thank you.
Lots of love,
Leah
P.S. It is now 9:30 PM and construction crew #2 has arrived! ("Thank you," Erec & Jimmy)~L
