On Tuesday, Jaxson and I went and spent the day in Gowrie with G & G Cathcart. We had a great time with them. Papa Cathcart is now back to work delivering mail after his hip replacement surgery. He is doing quite well, but isn’t a big fan of the real bumpy roads. On Wednesday evening, we took Jaxson to a walk-in clinic because I suspected that he might have another bilateral ear infection. He has had a runny nose for a few days, but once it got to the point that he was putting his fingers in his ears and saying, "Mommy owie" and "ears hurt," I figured we had better take him in. So he’s back on ATB. Brad took yesterday off, and to much to my surprise, he actually got the whole day off. His boss keeps telling him that he needs to take more time off, since he has somewhere around 475 hours of PTO. When he does manage to sneak in a day off, it’s quite common for them to call him and need him to come in. If I remember correctly, I think that he even managed to get through the day without getting a phone call from work. That’s enough on this subject, because as a lot of you know, I could go on and on about this. So it was nice to have him off so that I could go into work and attend a colorectal cancer conference. I know this isn’t too interesting to a lot of you, but I loved it. We had a psychologist, social worker, pathologist, colorectal surgeon, medical oncologist, and radiation oncologist come and talk to us about their role in colorectal cancer. I could have listened to the pathologist talk all day, she was very interesting. She even brought a piece of a cancerous colon that was removed during an autopsy. It was very cool. Today we are just hanging out and waiting for the nice warm up that we are supposed to be having tomorrow. Our 2 goals for tomorrow are to get outside and play and to wash the cars. OH! Our big exciting news for this week is. . . we got a Cosco membership!! I’ve heard a lot of people talk about how great Cosco is, so we decided to go check it out. We couldn’t believe the prices on some of the stuff there. They also have a lot of samples out; you could almost get a full meal just from their samples. It’s a great place, but I think it might also be a dangerous place for me. We’ll find out.
