WE HAVE SETTLED INTO THE SIEGE

Remember those old tales of sieges. A castle was attached for weeks and months and years. I often wondered if time was reported in the bible like 40 days and 40 nights. God could not just say that it took a very very long time.

I realized yesterday that we are in the middle of a long seige. We have hunkered down for the winter and will enjoy moments. We are having some good moments. Whitney is here for the weekend. She was able to go to a party last night. A few of her friends got together for some movies for a birthday party. She was tired but happy. We have to have a few moments of fun.

M-E seemed to have weathered this first part of the Consolidation. She has done great. She has been nauseated most of the time and has lost about 5 pounds but will be hungry this morning. She did not have any of the liver problems associated with the Mercrapterprim. She never had a fever with Ara-C. She had a couple of head aches and was very tired but she did not suffer from any the obvious affects of the the radiation. My sister told me not to hit M-E on the head because I might be upset when I hear the sloshing in her skull. She has had some short term memory issues. I now have Dorey. (The Ellen Degeneris character in Finding Nemo)

Of course she and Mom are using "We cannot Remember" for lots of things. It goes like this: Did you brush your teeth? Oh, how can we remember to do that! They are very very bad.

She has only one scheduled appointment this week for the Clinic and we are going to see how much school she can handle.

We are in a waiting mode. Waiting for the troops outside to go home but we know that they are just waiting. Waiting for the opportunity to strike. We are prepared for the next strike.