Thank You

Thank you so much to everyone who planned, helped with, attended, or somehow otherwise supported the spaghetti dinner on Saturday. We had a great time visiting with friends and family, and meeting new people who heard about the benefit and wanted to help out in some way. We are so blessed by the many friends and family that we have supporting us.

We got to Columbus yesterday morning around 10:00 for Ryan's appointment at 10:30. It took about an hour by the time the pharmacy got the drug he was to get upstairs and they gave it to him, but Aubrey loved running around the room and the nurse didn't seem to mind her at all. We then found our apartment and got things moved in and tried unsuccessfully to get Aubrey to take a nap, so we decided that a walk in the stroller might help. Just as we were headed out, we got our first visitors. Curtis and Karen found us and so they walked with us and then we visited with them in our "vacation home." That's what Ryan has termed the apartment. It is a very small vacation home if that's what it is to be :) We had a trip to Wal-Mart and dinner and then gave Aubrey a bath. It took our "good sleeper" about 45 minutes to decide that her pack and play was ok to sleep in and she finally went to bed. I was ready shortly after.

This morning Ryan was supposed to have about a 2 hour appointment, so Aubrey and I went along. After we'd been there 45 minutes and they were just taking him to his room, Aubrey and I decided that we'd come back for him when he was ready. We finally picked him up around 1 and then he got sick on the way back to the apartment, so while he was supposed to be enjoying Aubrey today before he went into the hospital, he's hardly gotten to see her at all.

I'm hoping that when he wakes up that he'll be feeling a little better and be able to play with her a little while before she goes to Papaw and Grandma's house.

Ryan gets admitted tomorrow morning at 7:00. (Another early one!) He will then go to surgery to have his central line put in. He also has to get his third dose of the medicine they started yesterday to help prevent mouth sores from the radiation. Otherwise, he has a "free day" in his hospital room tomorrow. Radiation begins on Wednesday.

I'm a little disappointed that today hasn't gone as planned and I've spent some time praying this afternoon. I know that God's plan is for the good of all, so I know He certainly has everything under control, but we continue to ask for your prayers for Ryan's quick recovery and my strength to do everything else!

-a