Blog of Random Thoughts
Family is revealed most clearly by who arrives when nothing is required of them. When people show up with care in their hands, food, help, time, presence, they are not defining family with words. They are defining it with action. Over the past couple of months we have had a lot of people do this….
Today is family day and we have been pretty lazy today. Mel slept in until close to 10:45am, where she just lounged in bed. We have not had a weekend like this in a while where she can sleep in. I did not sleep in and was up at 3am. It is awesome with the…
I think that I excel in adapting to difficult situations and thinking back it is something that gets me into quite a bit of trouble. A lesson that I learned in life is you need to persevere and you need to have resilience. It is not in my nature to give up or succumb to…
We drove down to Toronto last night and in the vehicle we play a card game called how well do you know your family. It is fairly easy for everyone as we all know each other fairly well. Olivier is interesting. The specificity of some of his answers makes it rather difficult to guess the…
Early in July I started the process of getting Xavier’s goalie mask wrap done. It is now late September and we do not have a design yet. Initially I was informed that it would take 10 days and I had not heard back for a very long time. We had to start the process over…
The way that they show relationships and things within the Chinese shows is rather amusing. It is reminiscent of adolescent love the way that it is presented and acted out. A confession of any sort of affection is seen as a really big deal and there are next to no public displays of affection. I…
I have yet to hear back about my PET scan on whether it will happen or not. My colleague has informed me that the radiologist believes that there is no reason for it to be declined. That is a bit reassuring, but I am not sure if I am getting more anxious about those results…
Yesterday I received a phone call from the hospital. One of my doctors called me to inform me of the cancer and to make sure I was aware. Our of all the doctors that I have this one is the most pragmatic and lays out the facts as they are. No sugar coating. Nothing. This…
Even though that quote is attributed to me, Xavier is the one that said it. Today I started telling more people at work as my presence will have an impact on the work that they are doing. Everyone has been awesome and tell me to focus on my health and not worry about work. The…
Over the course of the last year I have been going in every 3 to 4 months for checkups. During my last scan late summer, they had noticed that I had some fluid in my abdomen and while it normally would not be a concern, with my history they wanted to be careful and schedule…