Teamwork

I made a somewhat last minute trip to Comox this past weekend. I went to see friends and to see Katy (wife of Dave #1) in her show. She was playing Eliza Doolittle in a production of My Fair Lady. She was fantastic in her part and was by far the best thing about the show. I'm looking forward to seeing her in her annual Christmas show. Hopefully we can make it out to the island to see it this year.

The rest of the weekend was fun and served as a good distraction from the chemo cycle. We managed to make it to the pub on Friday for a few drinks (see video footage below) but most of the weekend was spent relaxing and eating. Unfortunately tomorrow it's back to that blasted chemo and another few days of feeling like crap. Oh well. What can you do?

Its been a while

I don't know why I haven't updated in so long. I think part of the reason was the timing. We got back from a six week tour of BC, to find that the weather here in Calgary was crap and I was facing an indefinite sentence of slow chemical poisoning by chemotherapy. Summing up all the fun stuff we did this summer on the blog while having little to look forward to was a little too depressing. So I just avoided it altogether. I think I'm over that situation now. Chemo still sucks but now that all the kids stuff (school, play school, swimming, music and dance) has started there is lots to keep me busy. I find that distraction is the most effective method of making the time pass while I'm on chemo. I've also found a couple of unconventional drugs that help with the nausea; one is a prescription drug and the other is not. I only need to take them in the first day or two after my treatment when the nausea is worst and after that it gets more bearable.

This summer our computer died. We debated what to get as a replacement and eventually ended up switching up our Dell for a Mac. So far I'm not as impressed as I thought I'd be. I think most of my frustration comes from being so used to running a PC. I'll give it a little more time before I weigh in with my official review but for now I'm not satisfied that a mac is worth twice the price of a PC.

Dad Life

This is funny.