Staying busy

I talked to home today and John, Jesi, and AJ are settled into the Perrysburg Stanford household with Mike. John had his blood levels checked Monday before they left Marysville and the platelets were up to 170, well over what is needed for the temodar (chemotherapy). Temodar is a pill form of chemo that has proven successful in treating brain tumors because it crosses the blood brain barrier better than many other chemos. We are hoping it has some effect on the heart tumor too. If not John will have to go back to the other combination he was getting in addition to the temodar. The beauty of this right now is that it can be done in Perrysburg as opposed to Columbus. It will be interesting to see how long nurse Mike waits on John. Probably only as long as John loses to him in Nintendo. I am happy they can be staying in our house while we are gone and hopefully their Marysville house will sell.

No jobs for Mike yet. One possibility last week was in Bowling Green working at the courthouse but it disappeared when they found out transportation wouldn’t be available. Mike could work in BG without transportation but it would involve moving there so he could drive himself. He is reluctant to leave Perrysburg and we feel there are probably opportunities that will work for him in town.

Now for the Florida update. Steve is working hard and I am playing hard. I have finished one book, played tennis, and been to the fitness center twice. I have also walked the beach and worked on my digital photo albums. I am beyond relaxed and now will have to work to keep from getting bored. Tonight Steve is working so I am having dinner with mom and dad and then going to BINGO with mom. Mom is a very lucky BINGO player so I will probably just be glad to be with a winner. The weather here is fantastic. It is so hard to believe that it can be so cold in other parts of the country when it is sunny and warm here. I can understand why people want to come here for the wintry months.