Productive day...

Thanks to Tonya I have officially finished both of my baby registries. We went to Walmart today and completed that one, boy for someone so little they need a lot of stuff!

Let me just say I hope that you all have a friend like her in your life, she has been amazing! She has been there for me through years of fertility treatments, a month of bed rest, this pregnancy, and most recently helping me through Ben's diagnosis and begining of treatments. She has 2 kids, 2 jobs, goes to school and still is there night or day, no questions asked. I am very fortunate to have many good friends in my life but I really don't know where I would be without her. Thanks Tonya!

This evening I have been working on bedding for the babies. I couldn't find any that I loved that would work for both genders so I decided to make them all. I know what some of you are thinking, I am CRAZY! It gives me something to keep busy doing as we are home relaxing.

Ben is having a good day, still worn down but Ryan came and got him out for awhile today and he was glad to be back doing something other than sitting around the house. I am sure that sitting around here doesn't help keep his spirits high and I am sure he will sleep well tonight!

Here's an opinion question for all my readers...
Tonya and I were talking about Godparents today and in my opinion the true reason for choosing Godparents is because they have the same values as you as far as raising the child therefore that would be the type of couple we would choose. Now having four coming is it too much to ask one couple to be the Godparents of them all? Is it better to choose 4 couples but ask one of them to be the gaurdians of them should anything happen? What do you all think?

Picture time!

Here is the much requested belly shot!

Preliminary Results are in!!!!

3 boys and a girl!!! The u/s tech was very confident in her findings. We will have 100% confirmation at the anatomy scan in 2 weeks but this piece of good news was much needed this week!

The appointments went great and all looks good. The babies are getting so big! The ride home was torture! Having a sealed envelope in my purse for the whole ride almost killed me, sitting in traffic going 6 mph for a couple hours didn't help any.

Ben is quite tired after a long day of moving around with no naps. He waited up to read the results but he is comfortably asleep now and hopefully will stay that way. He had a great night last night so hopefully that will continue.

I will scan and post pics tomorrow!

We are home!!!

Ben had a good night and was fever free for over 36 hours so we were let go this afternoon. It is so good to be home. Right now we will be traveling weekly or biweekly to Dartmouth for his appointments and chemo and are hoping that he will be feeling more like himself soon. He already looks so much better than he did a week ago, I hope that is an indication that the treatment is going to work already.

In other news I get to see the babies tomorrow! I have been far to spoiled by seeing them weekly that when I have to go a week without seeing them I miss them. This week has been a big growth week for my belly too! I will post u/s pics and a belly shot for all those who requested them on Thursday.

5/25

Ben got his last med for his chemo cycle yesterday afternoon and he had some reaction to it. He pulled through ok and after some blood work they decided to do a platelet transfusion. He reacted fine to that and had a pretty uneventful night. Some night sweats, but not like the last couple nights. Today should be a quiet day, no testing other than blood, maybe a transfusion but he can go outside for a bit and he is going to do some walking around the pod and get a shower.

Tomorrow morning he has a PET scan at 7 am so with any luck by noon we should be headed home! We are both ready to be home in our own bed and able to get a good night's sleep.

rough night

They did 3 out of 4 of Ben's chemo drugs last night and the 4th one will be done this morning. He wasn't able to eat anything afterwords and ended up with the chills for some time then night sweats kept him up for a good part of the night. They gave him something different to sleep this around 4 this morning and he has been out ever since. Hopefully he will not have a reaction to today's drug and will be able to have a fairly relaxing day.

Update 5/23

We were given the final results today and it is Hodgkin Lymphoma in stage IV. He begins chemo tonight and will do it every other week for the next 6 months. He has a 60% chance of being cured and then there is a chance that he will treated but not cured. So now we work on recovery and getting him back to his old self.