Monday, April 27, 2009

Heading to Disney!

Derek with his hives!!


We are getting packed and ready for our trip. We will drive to Orlando early Saturday morning and be back on Saturday the 9th. We're so excited to go and Troy said that he isn't even going to look at his phone! Troy has been doing really well. He has been going into work like he used to do before his diagnosis. He started on Monday of last week and has been doing it pretty steady. He stayed home Thursday to work from home, but besides that he is up and out the door by 7am. He struggles a little with his eating and wishes he could just enjoy food the way he used to. We will be going to Cobb Hospital on the 18th to have his port removed, so he will have to recover from that, but all in all things are really a lot better. My sister, Tonya, stopped by with her family while vacationing around the South. She was only here for a couple of hours, but it was so nice to see a piece of New York/family. Olivia, Christopher, and Logan (the cousins) are shown above with Ryan and Derek. Derek has only a couple of weeks of school left. He finishes on the 15th of May. He will be going to Kennesaw Elementary's Kindergarten orientation tomorrow. Ryan is signed up for the Fall to go to St. Catherine's Preschool on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Derek went to the doctor (and the hospital) last weekend for hives. He was on all kinds of medicine for 5 days and he is going to the allergist on the 12th. I actually think he may have an allergy to sorbitol. It's a long story, but he had an allergic reaction a couple of years ago and we linked it to fluoride tablets that he had taken with that inactive ingredient in them and this past reaction I found the same ingredient in some frosted animal cookies that he had chowed down. We'll see what the doctor thinks. Anyway, he is doing fine and his reaction, luckily, was just cosmetic (not to mention he was extremely itchy) and didn't affect his breathing or anything. We have a week of doctor's appointments when we return from vacation. Troy has to go to the ENT Monday for his monthly visit, Derek sees the allergist Tuesday, Troy goes to the dentist for a post radiation visit (who knows what damage the radiation may have done), and on Thursday, Troy sees Dr. Knauer for his pre-op visit. Ahhhhhhh, vacation is only 5 days away!!! We will leave the chaos behind us for a week.

2 comments:

Mimi said...

Oh my! That's a lot of information! You will not believe how nice it will be to have a few hours by yourself! We'll go for coffee one day after school starts!

Have fun in Disney. Let me know if you need me to feed the cat.

sammi said...

Aw, poor Derek!!!! Hope he's feeling better!!!