Casey is AWESOME!

Casey has been feeling great!!!  We had a great long holiday weekend with the kids and our families!! 
His next chemotherapy is December 4th.  Hopefully, the nausea won't be so bad this time!  Cross your fingers!!

On a Roll

Casey is addicted to painting!  LOL!  He is painting another accent wall!  We loved the color so much we decided to paint one of the living room walls!  He's awesome with a paint roller!!

He feels really good today...not a hint of nausea all day!!  He says he knows he's got this thing beat because he feels and looks so much better!  He has even gotten compliments from his friends and coworkers!!  He is filling back in quite nicely!  He had lost so much weight in such a short amount of time!  Thirty pounds to be exact!  He has gotten his appetite back!  Last night he scarfed down a triple meat triple cheese Whataburger!!! 

Productive Weekend!

Casey felt great this weekend...with the exception of late last night when he felt a little nauseous and this afternoon when he threw up his breakfast and lunch!  We were able to have a very productive and FUN weekend with the kids! 

We went to the last DAYFL game between the Bengals and Mean Green and watched Asher receive the Best Defensive Player of the Year Award!!  Woo hoo!!  Then we went to Texas Roadhouse for lunch and afterwards went to watch A Christmas Carol in 3D!!  Then for a few minutes at the park! 

Today Casey was in the mood to paint!!  Yay for me!  Because I have been wanting an accent wall FOREVER!!!  It's looking good!!!  I'm so happy that he feels good enough to paint, not to mention good enough to do all the fun things we did this weekend!!

Morning Sickness! ;o)

Casey is not having a very good morning today.  He just told me he threw up his toe nails!   And he was at work!  Poor thing!  He said he felt the sudden nausea come on like a freight train! :-(  But he felt a little better afterwards!

Not feeling so hot!

Casey is feeling nauseous today! :-(

Casey Losing His Hair!

On November 18, 2009, Casey began to notice he was losing his hair... in clumps!  He had an itch on his head so he scratched it...next thing you know his trashcan at work is full of hair!  Ewww.....
The back of his head looked like a dog's with mange!  Ha Ha!  If you look closely at the picture you can almost see a butterfly!

So...he decides its time to shave his head!  Not a bad look for him.  I think his nickname will be Mr. Clean from now on!

First Chemo Treatment

Casey's first chemo treatment was November 6, 2009.  About a month or more later after being diagnosed with cancer!  Ugh!  But I won't talk about that again!  It took 5-6 hours.  He laid in a bed in a small room that was hot as hell!  And then the nurse offered him a heated blanket!  LOL!  Ummm...no thanks...but can you turn on the AC in this joint!?  I sat in the chair across from his bed and played on Facebook almost the entire time!  That's when I discovered some of the iPhone apps that I have been making crazy pictures with!  It's so fun!  The chemo procedure was practically painless for him...with the exception of the nurse hurting him when inserting the IV into a vein in his hand!  OUCH!  His vein is ROCK hard right now! 

The nurse informed us of what to expect as far as side effects go.  Casey should expect mild nausea, pain in his joints, losing his hair, and fatigue.  The day after his treatment he felt GREAT!  He said he felt better than he had in a very long time...even before he got sick!  That great feeling didn't last very long.  The day after that he started feeling very very tired and nauseous!  A few days after that, the pain in his joints started and he threw up. His side effects come and go but he has felt great for almost a week straight now!