Chandra's Journal
December 10, 2005
11:55 PM
Yea! No fire alarms last night! Canon did wake up at 4:00 anyway, though. I laid him in bed with us (one of the benefits of a king-size bed!) thinking he would probably just go back to sleep. However… he thought that was pretty fun and would really have preferred to crawl around the bed in the middle of the night. So I made him a drink of water and when he finished that I put him into bed. Thankfully he did fine after that.
We had a pretty uneventful day today. Besides not being at home, and loading Canon up on medicines, it was a pretty normal Saturday. The exciting part was when Drew and Canon went to the lobby and brought back an armload of mail! It was so fun to open cards and read notes from friends everywhere. It’s an amazing thought that so many are praying for Canon still and sharing in our thanksgiving and joy. What a perfect time of year to share Canon’s story, our thanksgiving and joy with people we love. We have all of Canon’s cards and Christmas pictures of friends taped to our kitchen cabinets. It helps so much not to feel so far away!
Canon had a fairly moody day today. Jaymee told us that the same medicine that makes him very hungry (the Prednisone) will also cause some pretty dramatic mood swings. He wanted to be in the same room as I was pretty much all day. I have a hard time with this part of the recovery process. I always tend to assume that he’s hurting or it’s the medication causing the crying, so I rush over to him and pretty much give him whatever he wants right now. That’s just how it’s going to have to be for a while, though, because I just have to be sure that he’s not hurting and that he knows he can trust us to respond when he needs us. I’m praying that he sees more comfortable, happy days than these kind.
Perry, Melissa, Brittany, and Madison Flowers stopped by to visit tonight! Our first real visitors at our “home away from home”. We had actually seen them visiting Amarillo for Thanksgiving right before we got the call to come down here. Brittany and Madison had raised about $75 for Canon’s fund and brought it to me at church. Brittany was in my fourth grade class several years ago, and even though she’s grown into this tall, mature young lady, still has a childlike compassion and emotional connection to us. She’s the kind of student and friend that every teacher wants to see again!
I’m anxious to get the boys to see Santa… just not real sure where to go. I don’t want to take Canon to any malls during the crowded Christmas rush – talk about a germ fest. I’ve gone from trying to forget about it being the holidays to wanting to make sure that this Christmas is extra special for the boys.
Every time I think about Christmas lately, I wonder about and pray for our donor’s family. If there’s a harder time of year to lose a loved one, I don’t know what it would be.
Chandra