Ok, you all knew that. We did too. But getting a stomach bug while dealing with cancer and chemo side effects is like suffering a traumatic leg amputation the stubbing your toe. It just sucks…
Little things have big consequences with cancer - tiny tumors have huge effects, small colds turn into life-threatening events, stomach bugs cause you to lose even more weight... Kim's doing ok, is able to keep food down now, but it's just even more unfair than it needs to be.
Her doctors ordered a new chemo drug to add to the mix last night, so now Kim has IV chemo twice a week. It's a low dose supplement whose name escapes me right now - I'll try and update it later if I remember (!) to bolster the effects of the others. Nothing untoward came up in the results that caused them to panic or anything, just a slight adjustment of the dosages and protocols based on her general health.
So, how is her health? Well…
She's doing ok. Her weight took a bit of a knock back and she looks somewhat worse than she feels, so please don't panic! I'm trying to get her to rest and de-stress, but as I'm sure you've all figured out by now, getting Kim to de-stress is a battle in itself.
We're getting there. Kims slowly on the mend from the stomach bug, and I'm trying to get her to eat more. She says she wanto to be "fat again". Did I mention that I adore this woman? There's slow improvement, and many months of the trial yet to go. We're hanging in there!
Thank you once again to everyone's kindness, support and extraordinary generosity. We are profoundly touched by every message and kind word. We're fighting this for you guys as much as ourselves and the kids now.
Thanks to some extraordinary people, our GoFundMe has grown, and between that and our PayPal (churlygurl (at) gmail (dot) com) we have raised $1200 of our new $2500 total. We can't express our gratitude... there need to be words than mean more than thank you in our language.
Every day is hard, but every day is a blessing, too. Every day reminds us of why we chose each other in the first place, and why we're still here, sixteen years later. Our anniversary is coming up on the nineteenth of this month, and if being together us the only way we can celebrate this year, it will be the best anniversary ever. We'll raise a glass of cold milk to you all this year.
Thanks for everything; we appreciate each and every one of you. Take care of yourselves, and hug the one you're with, because sometimes that's all they need.
Until next time, we remain your friends,
Callum and Kim