Honestly, I have no idea what I am doing. I miss blogging though, that’s the real thing here … and I haven’t really found my niche place to blog to be honest, but the fact that I miss you guys more than I want to blog at Livejournal has me once more back on DW.

Shoot me, I know!

I guess I should do a quick update on things – really quick because not much has really been going other than stuff with dad.

Dad - He hit his three month mark of Chemo about 4 weeks ago and about 3 weeks ago he had another CT scan to see what kind of affect the chemo has had on his tumors.

The good news is, that the tumor in his liver (the bigger one), shrank by half. It was 7.2cm and it’s now at 3.6cm. Also, he’d started to get lymph nodes in his neck/lungs (meaning the cancer had started to make its way there—and thankfully didn’t or we’d be down shits creek) … those lymph nodes are now completely gone as well.

While this is very promising and wonderful news, we’re not trying to get our hopes up too much. We know how unpredictable cancer can be … but we were definitely crying tears of joy when we heard this news, don’t be misled! (: He has to do a few more months of chemo still (another 3), and they’ll check the tumor size then. If it’s small enough, they can go in and operate and remove the mass. Or, if miracles happen, and the tumor just completely gets wiped out, so much better.

The not-so-good news? The treatments are starting to hit him harder as he continues to get them. In the beginning the days following his chemo he wasn’t exactly ‘okay’, but his nausea wasn’t too bad and the other side effects were way more bearable. Now? He’s laid up for at least the first two-three days after his treatment because the nausea is so bad he can barely sit up/walk around a lot. And earlier on, he’d be okay after the first two or so days … now he’s not feeling “normal” until about five-six days later.

It’s pretty hard to see someone you love so much barely able to sit up because he’s feeling so horrible. We’ve tried looking up natural remedies for nausea since the meds don’t seem to be working as effectively anymore. He’s tried pure ginger, which some say is the best, and while it eases it a little bit, he says it’s not enough for the foul taste (I love my dad :D). He’s tried teas, he’s tried ginger-ale (which isn’t so natural but less foul tasting) … we just don’t know what else to have him try.

Still … the news is promising. Hopefully it will only be three more months and he can get a short break if they do operate him (which will be a different pain, but at least the chemo won’t be eating away at him).

Vermont – The only other thing that happened recently was my trip up to Vermont with friends a couple of weekends ago. It was so nice to get away for a little while … even just three days. I actually brought my camera with me (shocking, I know), and took a crapton of photos up there. The whole album of photos can be found here if you’re bored but below the cut are my favorite few from the trip. They’ll mostly be the nature pics, but there were people pics too ha-ha.

Otherwise, things are pretty much the same. Classes ended a few weeks ago, so grades should be available soon-ish. I’ve signed up for 2 in the fall, and one of them is a course I ‘have’ to take (statistics). I am really dreading that class because I hate anything having to do with numbers, but I need one more ‘numbers’ related course for my ‘general’ studies *headdesk*. The other is a history course. I’m now in my ‘senior’ year of history courses, so these are a bit more ‘work’, so I am hoping the statistic class doesn’t take away from that lol

Hope everyone’s doing well! <3

Pictures!