More Surgery (not for Brian)

Brian had a complete skeletal survey or scan on Wednesday along with his bloodwork for chemo the next day (The scan/survey are different and I always forget which one is which. I'm not sure which one he had.). The next day (Thursday, yesterday) at chemo we got the results of the skeletal survey/scan and received his chemo. As always after chemo, he is now on steroids for the next five days. While the appointment was not bad, it wasn't all that reassuring. There were some findings from the scan, but we are still letting all of that sit with us for a few days. I'll blog about that later, but today we are up early and headed to the hospital for Fred a spinal fusion. Fred will be having his third back surgery this AM and he is thrilled to be getting a fusion. On Wednesday, his birthday, he had his pre op appointment and he has been trying to finish up some loose ends at work before being out for a while.Throw in a school day for me and the kids, ballet and guitar lessons, me getting sick and you can see it's been a busy week. We are very grateful that God in His good providence, love and mercy had already laid the plans for this week. Fred's mom is here to celebrate Fred's birthday. Fred's surgery, not scheduled for another week, got moved up on Tuesday to this week. With her here we have not had to worry about our children (or me making meals.)  It's been wonderful!!