Journey To The Land Of Food

      We are back from our epic journey to the land of the north known to us wisconsinites simply as "The Dells". We try to go every year (for the last 13 years) around the time we get our tax returns but this year was different. We didn't know how becca was going to do with chemo. We postponed and waited and by the time it looked like she would be fine the money wasn't there anymore. We're halfway through chemo and just decided we need a breather so I got some extra shifts, a couple small gifts from friends and we were able to pull together a 2 night stay at the Wilderness Resort. This is our favorite resort and we are very loyal. So loyal in fact that we got a 20.00 discount on the Friday night and a free room upgrade from a standard to one with a separate master bedroom and full kitchen! I say this because I like to believe it wasn't because of the beautiful bald woman standing next to me.
      We get to the room and the first thing we do is order in Sarento's pizza. SO GOOD! After we decide to skip any water based activities and head down to the mini golf. Becca won which is odd because I always do but I've been having back issues and my knee isn't 100% and yada yada yada...We played in the arcade for a time but by then it was about 9:30 so we decided to head to bed and get a jump on tomorrow.
      Breakfast buffet first then off to one of the 3 indoor waterparks. Xander quickly noticed it's a lot like a kiddie park and aside from the slides and lazy river it wasn't to his liking. Off to the wave pool area with sun and lounge chairs. We normally get a cabana for a whole day staying in just this park so I looked into it remembering it's usually 75.00 off season. There was 1 left. SWEET! 175.00...NOT SO SWEET! So the cabana is out. Meanwhile Xander is hungry already so chicken fingers it is. After swimming in the wave pool he's tired (poor thing) so we all go down the raft slide. That was fun-ish. More for him. Then we went and got flushed on that raft ride that from the outside looks like a sideways toilet bowl. That was FUN! Xander went backwards (he hates me) and look on his face was priceless!
     Becca and I got our traditional 2-4-1 margaritas and I scored a few lounge chairs and all was right with the world. This is about the time Xander wanted to complain as all teenage boys do. He ended up going back to the room for some time by himself which was fine. Problem being when we got back he still wanted to be alone so Becca and I showered and went back down to the arcade knowing full well we were spending money to make E-tickets for the loner to use to buy some crap. I swear that setup is the greatest con ever.
      We return and then it's off to dinner at the Wisconsin Brew Pub. The burgers were great, fried pickles and potato wedges wrapped in bacon we awesome, and I had a twice baked bacon potato that I kid you not I could have as a meal. Damn was that tasty! After having our meal we headed back for some laser tag and again an early night in. Xander of course pulled the curtain separating the living room and immersed himself in youtube videos. meanwhile I'm thinking of breakfast at Paul Bunyans in the morning after we check out.
      Family style breakfast and lots of it. Good and plentiful. After filling up we headed to downtown dells and caught Ripley's Believe it or Not because you have to at least once. Not worth the money in my opinion but the boy enjoyed it and Becca smiled a lot while taking a ton of pictures. That was pretty much it. We were all tired and just wanted to get home. Xander a bit more. So we waved good-bye till next year.
      Where is all the cancer talk you ask? Where's the update? This is it. We didn't talk of chemo or treatments, bald heads or muscle aches, hot flashes or bills. We were just a family on vacation for a couple days and I tell you it was wonderful. Oh sure we'd get the looks sometimes and a not so subtle whispering. These were quickly ignored. Point is she is not her cancer and sometimes a break to remind yourselves of that is just what the doctor ordered.
     

I married an idiot

      Becca started her 2nd round of chemo on Thursday. Now it's every week for twelve weeks and this first one was no problem. She is having some twinges in large muscle groups but nothing serious and there has been no neuropathy in her extremities which is possible but usually not till around 6 weeks in. All in all chemo has been pretty easy on her aside from the hair loss. She misses her locks. She's hating the scarves at work and can't wear the wig comfortably. Most of the time she goes without when out in public now and always at home. It might be weird later on when she does have hair lol.
      Now onto my dear wife being an idiot. She is at times scatter brained but those times are few and far between. This is not the case anymore. She has issues finding words which is fun because that's usually me and now the tables have been turned ha ha ha. To get a good understanding on what "Chemo Brain" is like I will use her own words.

From Becca:    

      Well, chemo brain has kicked in. It isn't constant, but at the end of the last 2 cycles, I've been hit with it for a couple of days. (Therefore, if my sentence structure doesn't always make sense here, please don't hold it against me.)

Let me give you a snapshot of how my brain is (not) functioning.


Get to work.

Turn on computer, music, digital photo frame

Open email

Stare blankly at email for 2 minutes

Realize I'm staring blankly at email and begin running Monday morning reports

Pause music to go to printer and get reports

Bring reports back to office

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The internet is boring.
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Ooh - I should read up on Captain America now that I've seen it.
Commence reading
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Remember I'm at work, it's Monday, and I have reports to do.
Commence working on reports
Realize halfway through that I'm entering the wrong numbers
S@!t
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Okay, what was I doing?
Redo reports using correct numbers, brain functioning at 100%, all is well.
Finish reports, double-checking information, speedy and efficient as always.
Compose email to boss:
The reports weekly are attached.
no...delete
The resports weekly are attached.
Crap! No! delete...
Your weekly reports...
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s&*t!
...are attached.
Send email without attachment.
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Remember I was listening to music before and start it up again.
Start doing other work. spot on, brain working at full capacity.
Receive email from boss looking for attachment.
Oh, for f@%k's sake!
Hit reply
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Attach reports and send.

      So that's what she has been dealing with and when I say that I mean me as well. I swear she's worse at home and there have been time when I've thought that she is now brain damaged. Thanks Cancer! You Rock!! This post is somewhat of a cop out because I'm lazy and decided to use hers. In my defense though it's better coming from her than me. In all honesty I was amazed she could type it out given her faculties the way they are So I'm actually showing her off lol. Have a great week everyone!!

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