11.28.22

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We were able to spend time with both sides of the family during the week of Thanksgiving. On Tuesday we were down on the farm. Everyone was back so we had a Hestekin family dinner. The guys did pretty good hunting. Seven deer total in four days!

This year it was our turn to be in Iowa for Thanksgiving so on Wednesday we headed south. Everyone was able to make it. 22 people in total! It was great getting to spend time with family. The last couple times we’ve come down I’ve helped Dad and Mom with putting up Christmas lights. I wasn’t going to let my current situation stop me from doing that this year haha so I climbed up on the roof and helped too. Many hands make light work. I’m pretty sure this was the fastest we’ve hung lights!

Sadly the “flu bug” hit our family. We had three kiddos wake up with a fever Saturday morning. Given what’s going on with me, we decided to head home early. And to top that off, Kade cut himself while he was skinning a deer Tuesday. We thought we had it cleaned up pretty good when it happened (he bled a lot, I figured it had flushed itself out pretty good.) But Friday night it really started bothering him and by Saturday you could see his finger was pretty swollen. Once we got home Aaron ran him in to urgent care to have it looked at. Long story short he’s on a 7 day antibiotic, they marked the swollen area to make sure it wasn’t getting worse. (It’s not) He’s happy about that! They talked about doing a surgical clean out if it didn’t get better! He can now open his hand almost all the way. The poor kid was helping unload the van with his cut hand on his head because if he put it below his heart it would just throb!

Thankfully the kids being sick doesn’t really affect my chemo schedule. I called on our way home to ask what their protocols were when it comes to having sick kids. The triage nurse I talked to said as long as I was feeling ok we could go through with it. So round two is down in the books. Everything went well. I can tell as the day goes on I’m getting more tired. But that’s what happened last time so it’s expected. If you are looking for specifics on prayer requests. You can pray that things go like they did last time. I really can’t complain with how well things went the first time. And two you can pray that whatever the kids have I don’t get. Or if I do, it doesn’t hit me like it did them!

** Can you believe with all those kiddos in Iowa that we actually had a left over caramel apple that I got to bring home!! haha.