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Thanks for visiting! From Home and Back, our Ukraine adoption journey.Finding the missing part of our hearts and family, our Ukraine adoption journey.
May 10 What a beutiful Saturday...We have been enjoying watching the Big East Conference for the past three days. UofL Ladies Softball is awesome. As well as the other teams. We have been able to watch Kelsey and her friends enjoying the game and meeting all those great softball players. However watching it in person is GREAT!!! TV does not do this justice. Those girls can play now.
She was also able to meet the Uof L head coach and talked about the summer camp that they have going on as well.
The weather has been very rainy here and has canceled a few games this week, which was actually nice. I am getting caught up on laundry today and doing other things that have needed to be done as well.
Tad has gone back to work and I must say that Kole has certainly missed him and so have I. I had a mini vacation while he was home, but it sure is nice that he is back to work, financially that is.
We are currently planning our summer vacations and we can't wait.
We hope your all doing well and I'll try and do better about updating soon.
K April 20 I'm sorry that it has been so long since I'ave updated...Things are going well here. Tad has done very well with his surgery and returns to the doctor this week and hopefully he will return to work soon
Ball season is in full swing now. Not only is Kelsey playing, but this is Kole's first year of playing as well. Of course, he keeps saying he is going to do it all just like Kelsey. He is going to hit the ball far far away, just like Kelsey. He is going to slide just like Kelsey and he has. But the best part is when he got to come out in the catchers gear just like Kelsey.
Not only did Kole love it, but Kelsey got to see for herself how much her brother thinks of her, first hand. Kelsey is Kole's hero. So, we are busy at lease 3-4 days a week with ball games and practice now and I'm not sure how I'll keep up with other things once Tad goes back to work. I must admit it has been nice having him here and he has gotten to see how my days are full with all the kids.
Kelsey is doing great in school and softball. This year in ball its a whole new set of rules and we are all getting used to them, especially Kelsey.
I must tell you all what Kole is singing as I'm typing this, it goes like this....
Twinkle Twinkle Lilttle Star how I like to ride in your car.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, pick your toys up where you are.
He is always good for a gigle. Until next time.
Kristi
March 18 Oncologyoncology
Definition: (on-KOL-o-gee) Oncology is the branch of medicine that deals with tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. This includes most cancers. An oncologist (on-KOL-o-jist) is a doctor who specializes in oncology.
I know it sounds silly saying this now, after the fact, but I've had this post mulling around in my brain for a few days.
Tad did well during his surgery and they removed the whole prostate. The doctor said he didn't think that it had gone outside of his prostate, but we would still need to wait for the pathologists results on Thursday at his appointment. I can't tell you the sense of relief that I had after speaking to the doctor after his surgery. However that relief was short lived after I found out that I would not be able to see Tad until he was in his room for nearly over 3 hours. I simply needed to see him, to be able to touch him and kiss him to know that he was alright. So I waited and made phone calls and then recover called and said that they were moving him to his room and we decided to meet him there.
As I came off the elevator on the floor that he would be saying the above is what I saw, Oncology Floor. Somehow it kind of shocked me, to see that he was on the oncology floor. Yes, I know that he was diagnosed with cancer, but actually seeing that he was admitted to the onocology ward was like a kick to the gut. I took a few moments for this to digest and yes I know it sounds wierd.
I decided to wait outside the elevators, you know to shorten the wait time for me. I was relieved when those elevators finally opened to reveal my husband and what does he say to me? 'There she is, where are my glasses I can't see a darn thing.' Finally at this point all my nervousness, anxiety, worries or what ever you want to call it simply melted to the floor and I felt so muich better.
He was suppposed to have been sent home on Friday, but we finally made it home on Sunday afternoon and it felt so good to sleep in my bed. Right now he is doing well, just a bit uncomfortable. He has an appoinment later this week for a cystogram and if all is well then they will remove his cathater, which we both look forward to.
So, thank you all for your thoughts and prayers and please keep them coming.
February 20 A Funny from KoleYesterday as we were driving Kole insisted that he needed to call his Daddy on the cell phone. The following is his side of the conversation.
Of course Tad was on the speaker phone. Keep in mind that Tad doesn't really catch on too quickly to Kole speak. Yes, Kole does a great job of speaking, so yes that means that Tad needs to listen a little more intently.
Daddy, you need get new tires for you tuck(truck).
Tad: Yes buddy I'm working on the track.
Kole: No Daddy, you need get new tires for you tuck.
Tad: Yes buddy I'm working on the track.
Kole: No Daddy! You need get new tires for you tuck.
Here is where I interject and translate for Tad, who is a little slow - or hard of hearing
ME: Tad, Kole says you need to get new tires for your truck.
Tad: Oh, yeah buddy probably so.
Kole: Daddy you need get new tires for you tuck so you go faster.
Tad: Yes buddy I'm working on the track
I interject again
ME: No Tad, Kole says you need new tires for your truck, so your truck can go faster.
Kole: Yeah Daddy new tires go faster.
Tad: Oh yeah buddy do you think so?
Kole: Yeah and higher up too.
Tad: What buddy?
My interjecting again.
ME: He says that you need new tires for your truck so you'll go faster and your truck will be higher in the air.
Kole: Yeah Daddy go higher and faster.
Tad: Yeah buddy I'm working on the tracks.
LOL I laugh every time I have to listen to Tad on the speaker phone talking to Kole. It's quite funny.
As I said Kole speaks very well, there are only a few instances where your not quite sure what he says, but he makes sure that you get it. Thank goodness for Tad that I can translate huh?
Cancer update:
Tad has surgery March 13. After that it will be about a week until we get the results to see if the cancer has spread outside of the prostate. Please keep praying that it is contained to the prostate. The doctors say that Tad's chances are great that it will not come back. Which is comforting. Please keep praying. February 05 It seems like more and more people are being affected by cancer.More and more so every day, or at least that's the way it seems to me. I fully believe that it is because that there have been so many advances in medicine that more and more cancers are being detected earlier. Thank Goodness that Tad's has been detected early. It is unheard of that some one Tad's age is even found to have prostate cancer. Most men aren't even checked until they are 50-years-old.
So, I do believe that God had a hand in it. I do believe that early detection is the key. So, as a PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT to all!!
Go get your yearly exams, both men and women, including mammograms. Early detection is the key, even though there is not a cure for cancer yet.
On another note, Hopeful Hearts (who helped with our adoption) is having their yearly benefit this weekend. This is the first one that Tad and I will be able to attend. I have helped with the flower arrangements for the past 2 years, and this year will be the same in addition to actually going. For those of you that do not know I do have a link to the Hopeful Hearts web page and I do request that you spend some time perusing their site, please make sure that you watch their videos. They are simply heart breaking and really shows the need in Ukraine and shows how Hopeful Hearts is steping in to fill in the gap to help these wonderful children, who otherwise are lost souls. (Not to mention that we are breifly shown in one of the videos while we were in Kiev with Kole)
I would also like to encourage you to give to help the cause., no matter the amount. A little goes a long way over there. One year we were able to buy a bed for one of those beautiful children at a very small cost. There have been several who have given in Kole's name and our family name, will you please consider giving too? Here is the link to Hopeful Hearts.
Until next time ~~ Kristi February 04 Stage II canceris what Tad has. His prostate cancer is at stage II and he has a Gleason score of 6. His options for treatment are radiation or surgery.
I must say that we have had appointments with two out of three doctors so far and the patientce and the time that they have spent with us has simply been amazing. Teh radiation oncologist spent over 2.5 hours with us alone. He made sure that he explained everything in great detail with us and he did not rush us one bit. He did not push radiation treatments over surgery at all. Right now Tad is 95% sure that he is going with the surgery. We meet with the surgeon on Friday to discuss the surgery and he fully expects to leave there with an appointment for surgery.
As Kelsey says 'I just want it out and gone Daddy.' That is the sentiment that we all share right now. As she simply stated, we can't help but feel that it needs to be gotten out. Which also leaves an additional treatment for him should it come back in the future.
Cancer is a scary word anyway and when it ends up being your husband its even scarier. But as Tad and I keep saying to each other 'Me and you!'
Meaning that no matter what happens its the two of us going through this. So every doctors appointment, every conversation, every discussion about treatments its Me and him.
I'll update more after Friday. January 22 What do you do when the world as you know it drops out from under your feet?Tad and I went in to the doctors appointment today prepared to hear that the biopsy results were positive. I am so glad we had that mind set, it really helped when indeed the doctor said that the results indicated that he does indeed have cancer. I must say I am so impressed with this doctor. He spent over an hour talking to us alone, when he had a waiting room full of patients and I do mean full. He rushed not one bit, he took his time and answered all of our questions. Not to mention that he has a great sense of humor about him.
So now on Tuesday Tad has to go for a bone scan and a CT scan to find exactly where his cancer is, how big it is and to see if it has spread elsewhere in his body. After that we take those results to two different appointments. One is an oncologist to discuss radiology and the other is a surgeon to discuss removal. Based on that info then we will decide how we want to proceed. So keep those prayers coming.
Tad and I were talking this evening how its funny that God has a plan, and how he continues to show is His plan. If we had gotten pregnant and had a child not only would we not have Kole, but Tad would have never found out his testosterone was low and then they would have never done a PSA test. I highly encourage all you readers to insist that the men in your lives have a simple little blood test called a PSA done (Prostate Specific Antigen). Most men routinely have one done in their 50's. Tad is only 37. So see, God really does have a plan in all of this.
So insist on PSA test for all your loved ones. This is our public service announcement to you dear readers. I'll update more on Tuesday.
Love to all~~ T, K, K, & K Today is the day...We find out the results of the biopsy today.
January 13 The waiting game has begun.The biopsy has been done, now we wait - some more. We go back to the doctor on the 22nd. Please continue to pray.
Thanks January 04 Prayers and Positive Thoughts are needed again please.Yet again we face the possibility of cancer rearing its ugly head. We will know more on Tuesday when we meet with the doctor, but until then please keep our family in your thoughts and prayers.
Thanks!
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