Thanks and Giving

Happy Thanksgiving!  This was such a tough day but it ultimately reigned triumphant!  Jeff and I got up at 5:30 to go to the hospital this morning.  We knew that it could be a long day and we wanted to start and be finished as soon as possible.  We arrived by 7:30 and were greeted at the Out Patient room by a nurse that said, "We are closed today, what are you doing here?" We have felt that sting before and told her that our Dr had told us to be there for blood work and possibly  a transfusion.  To make a long story short, our Dr arrived, blood work was done and Jeff received a unit of platelets.  They also gave him some IV nausea meds for all the holiday vomiting.  Luckily we were home by noon.  The kids and I cooked Thanksgiving and Jeff was able to sleep all afternoon.  He was able to eat a couple of bites and the kids and I enjoyed the rest.

I was sad not to spend the day with all my crazy family but we were okay.  I was prepared to enjoy the quietness of "just my family". Thankfully my kids fussed and fought and teased one another all day and I wasn't faced with any quiet moments.   Just as I was about to feel sorry for myself and think of all the things this day wasn't, I received a message from a girl that Jeff and I went to high school with.  She had read our blog and related to it because of health issues of her daughter.  She wrote to thank us for touching her. Wow! Its hard for us to imagine how we can be helping someone else. We actually feel our needs are great and we ask for a lot of help and support.  I feel like this blog is just a place to update things with Jeff, gripe, complain and stand on my soap box.  It's often not even about Jeff.  But it's nice to know that our circle of friends and family is ever growing.  We are thankful for that.  And we are thankful that our story has touched someone else.  We're not always happy about the way things are going but we do feel blessed. And we were so thankful to receive that message tonight.

So even though this wasn't the best Thanksgiving I've ever had, I will continue to give thanks.  God bless you all tonight!  I hope you are filled with  the love of family, a belly full of food and contentment with the life you  are given.

Jeff and Leta