I'm back... again. We moved out of our apartment and into a house, so our internet was disconnected and we just got it back yesterday.
My trip to China and my aquisition of a tenor saxophone made this the best summer ever, but the last week has rapidly balanced out all that good.
Our move was incredibly disorganized, we ran out of time to pack and had to just kind of go. The new house is furnished so we had to huck out a lot of furniture, but each of us had stuff we wanted to hang on to, so because of that the new place was a complete write-off, filled floor to ceiling with an impenetrable wall of furniture and boxes for a while. More stressingly, there are four of us, we were moving out of two apartments. Our efforts to rally the troops got us ONE friend to help out, so it was a twelve hour move. Also it poured rain for an hour and the rest of the day was over thirty degrees.
But the absolute worst, was that midway through I got a call from my sister. My nephew, who you might recall was premature and has cerebral palsy, along with a shunt, has liver cancer. Sick Kids Hospital actually has never seen this before, so it' s new territory, but they are a very competent medical staff and they seem confident. Dexter's chemo started Saturday and this coming Sunday will be the last day of chemo for this cycle. He's expected to have 4 chemo cycles, which will be aproximately 8 months, after which they're hoping the tumor will be broken down enough they can surgically remove it.
