Let Summer Begin!

Since moving to Abilene, summer typically means no schedules! Go to bed when you want, get up when you want, play golf if you want, travel when you want. But, this summer has been a bit different so far.

Most of you know that Mark had a malignant tumor this past February, had surgery, some complications and then a slow recovery which meant missing most of his classes in the spring semester. Then, he started what was suppose to be 30 rounds of radiation treatments which turned into 45 rounds. Now, some of you know what this means....his treatments were at 9am Monday thru Friday for nine weeks. So, we were pretty much held hostage in Abilene with the exception of a few weekend trips or one business trip for me that they gave Mark a two day reprieve to go with me.

Mark has done so well with his treatments. Very few side effects and nothing that kept him from playing golf or eating at Rosa's when we all went there! I would say he's been a poster child for radiation! The immediate and far future holds some blood work, body scans, MRI's and the such to make sure nothing sneaks back up on us.

But, now he's completed all 45 treatments and so.....LET THE SUMMER BEGIN! He has to be back in his office in about three weeks, so I see him spending a lot of time at his favorite place....Diamondback Golf Course!

I must share how thankful we are and have been this whole way! So thankful for his prognosis, his resilient body to handle all the treatments so well, all our friends and family and church who've prayed for him tirelessly and for our kids, Katie and Will who've been there and done what was needed when we couldn't and who kept us cheered up and made us laugh and took our minds off what was happening at the moment!

So, perhaps this will be my last posting on Mark's journey with cancer and from now on you can spend your time reading other folk's blogs of worthy reading and I can go back to just journaling my random thoughts and feelings on subjects important to only me!

Thanks for stopping by!