Seeing Our Blessings

Kevin had an appointment with the nurse practitioner this morning.

Paige and Joshua came over to help with the kids. School is out today for Josh and for Hannah and Andrea here. I was a little concerned about Mary and my father dealing with the girls coming in from school at lunch time so I appreciated Paige's offer to help.

Mary didn't want to miss her time with the littles, though, so she took charge of the youngest kids while Paige and Josh did the backyard scene with the older ones.

Kevin is doing well. We had few questions for the NP. Our trust in his willingness and ability to answer is a little compromised at this point. We've pretty much come to the conclusion that commuincation is bad enough in the office that we either hold questions until Kevin sees the doctor or we research the answers for ourselves.

In any case, the NP did give Kevin a thorough check-up and was encouraging about Kevin's response to the treatment so far. He was clearly surprised that Kevin has been working and traveling to do so. But he was very encouraging about Kevin doing that if he feels able and interested in doing so.

The doctor's side of the practice doesn't come with the chaos and tiring waiting of the infusion side. If she or the NP have an emergency with a patient, things can get long, but it's good to know Kevin would get that kind of priority response if he needed it so that sort of waiting takes less of a toll on him. Today was a quick in-out deal which went a long way to boost Kevin's spirits.

Mary was reading to the littles when we came in and Paige had taken Josh and the girls out for pizza so we came home to a quiet house. My father was puttering around with the tuning on my VW, finding his own special way to help Kevin.

The kids barely notice me when we return. They love having Ms. Mary here! Ella and Mary are especially close. I notice Ella making a beeline straight for Mary's lap when she sits down on the floor to read the kids a story. And Mary loves Ella's gentle demeanor.

It's been nice to see our family work together, each within their own talents, to help us. All of this cancer journey has been eye opening and sometimes what it has done is allowed us to see our blessings.