December 23rd - Chemo Treatment #15

Due to this being a holiday week Peyton had treatment on Thursday. Unfortunately, we were all very tired due to being at the hospital with Landon fairly late the night before. Landon was bitten on the hand by a friend's dog. He had to have x-rays, but thankfully no broken bones. Whew....we are very thankful for that! He probably would have needed stitches but doctors said they don't stitch up dog bites due to the risk of infection. Makes sense, so they put him on an antibiotic and here we are! We made it to Denver and through Peyton's treatment without a hitch. Due to La Veta Pass being closed on Thursday night we couldn't come home until Friday morning. We made it and had a wonderful Christmas Eve with family.
A friend of ours mentioned how rough it's been for us lately. She made the comment, "When it rains it pours I guess." Chuckling, I just responded, "At our house, it's been a constant, steady drizzle for months!" lol....... I can laugh, but ohhhh, there are days!!!

December 17th - Chemo Treatment # 14

This ended up being a really long weekend for all of us. Peyton had treatment on Friday and then started feeling a bit sick late Friday evening. He woke us up at 5:00am Saturday saying he was sick. We gave him more nausea medicine and shortly after that he started running a fever. We were planning on heading back to Alamosa, but decided to stay in Denver and see how he was feeling. His fever continued to rise and we ended up calling the doctor. Due to his fever being over 101 degrees, and it being a Saturday, we had to take him into the emergency room at Children's Hospital. We didn't have to wait long to see a doctor, but we had to wait for all the blood work to be done to make sure he didn't have an infection near the area where his mediport is. Thankfully, there wasn't an infection and the doctors just gave him a shot of antibiotics. A few hours later we were able to head back home. We decided to wait until the next day to return home to Alamosa. Peyton had another high fever in the middle of the night, but by the next day he was much much better. We stopped by the North Pole on the way home and visited Santa's workshops and rode some really fun rides! It was great for Peyton to finally think about something fun and get to do something outside of a hospital. This really got him excited for Christmas.

December 10th - Chemo Treament # 13

We made a very fast trip back and forth to Denver this last week. We left on Thursday after work. Peyton's treatment was 8:30 on Friday morning. We wrapped up with that at about noon, grabbed a quick bite of lunch and were on the road home. Peyton had his preschool Christmas concert at 7:00 Friday evening and we wanted to make it back for that. He was so excited. He was singing the songs on the way home! It was adorable. We made it home at 5:45pm despite Landon getting carsick on the way home in Colorado Springs. Charlie and I tag teamed getting Landon undressed, clothes changed, car seat cleaned up and we were back on the road in no time! We are getting quicker with all that. It's amazing all the new "talents" you acquire in parenthood. Ha! Ha! Anyway we made it to the concert and all was well! Life is good..........
We'll travel to Denver the next 3 weekends. Hopefully we can squeeze in a little fun time for the kids and not be so rushed. That's my goal.