My 44th birthday

Today I'm thankful for...

Feeling better then the last two days

Flu medications

Soft bed

Loving caring wife

Yesterday October 20th was my 44 birthday. I woke not feeling so good (sore throat, deep cough), and by the end of the day I was running a fever, my body was aching, and I had a severe case of the chills. As soon as I was done with the last patient, I was out the door to get home to my bed and fight this. Today I'm feeling better, but still have a cough and slight fever. I'm thankful for when I'm healthy, because this being sick isn't much fun. I'm planning on taking it easy the next 24 hours, so I'll be ready to travel to UCSF for the last chemotherapy appointment tomorrow. I was thinking that maybe I'm lucky that the bug hit me yesterday, and not tomorrow, because if that was the case, I would have missed the trip down with Lulu. (maybe it was a higher intervention?)

My birthday was great (besides being sick). The team at the office got me a cake and card with many nice messages written inside. As for the patients, luckily it was one of those really smooth days where everything just seemed to flow just right. Today was also Hawaiian day at DFK, so everyone was dressed in their best Hawaiian shirts, or dresses. We even had one of the assistants wearing a grass hula skirt. I love how our office gets so excited about these kind of events, and I can tell the patients and their parents really enjoy it too. Last week we had pajama day, and the week before that was crazy hat day. (I wore my kids goofy hat that they gotten from Disneyland last year). We always seem to think of more crazy and fun events to make the practice just a little goofy and a lot of fun.

I'm hoping to get better real soon, so I can hold that Lourdes. I haven't really gotten a chance to care for her the last four days. I certainly don't want to get her sick, and I'll probably have to wait another day to hold, snuggle, and feed her?

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