Hockey and More Hockey

Karlee has been enjoying her little bit of freedom and has been going on the bus run with Mom the last few mornings.  We don’t know if this is related to the treatment, but Karlee has been getting up very early every morning and generally not napping in the afternoon.  Many mornings she is up between 5:30 and 6:00.  Before Christmas she was routinely sleeping until 7:30 or so.  We have heard of other cancer patients not sleeping well either, so hopefully this is something that will pass once Karlee gets into maintenance.

Early Saturday morning the snow started.  When we go up Saturday morning (Dad let Mom sleep in) there was about 7 inches of snow on the patio table.  Needless to say there was a fair bit of cold shovelling.  Both kids came out and helped with Ryley going across the street and starting to shovel the neighbours sidewalks.  Dad ran out in the morning to pick up some Lego people for Ryley from a Kijiji ad.  We got 8 brand new Lego people for $25, which is a really good deal.  Dad also delivered a pair of slippers for Mom.  It is interesting to see that the slipper sales are starting to pick up a little again after Christmas.  You can check out Slippers by Jennifer at http://www.lewislinens.ca/slippers/.

Saturday evening Ryley had his last game of Esso Minor Hockey Week.  With Karlee’s counts being a little higher we figured she could reasonably safely come.  She was happy to finally be able to get out of the house and be with other people.  Ryley’s team had a great game with everyone playing very well.  After the game both teams got their medals and then we took a few team pictures.  Fortunately someone was thinking and had Karlee come out for a few pictures with the team.  The team wanted to have a picture like this to use of the Skate-A-Thon.

The reach of the information for the Skate-A-Thon continues to amaze us.  We have lots of people talking to us about it and are getting a lot of hits on the blog from the Hockey Calgary and the Shaw Meadows websites.  Lots of people have expressed interest in joining with the team and getting pledges and skating.  If you are interested (or your children) let us know and we can get you in touch with the right people.  Drop us an e-mail at ronlewis@telusplanet.net.

Sunday morning Dad headed over to a friends to borrow his band saw for a couple of hours.  He cut out a bunch of “Hope Stars” to continue to give to everyone who keeps supporting us in so many great ways.  Sunday afternoon we headed to the Hitmen game with Ryley’s hockey team and most of the other Novice hockey players in Calgary.  Fortunately all the kids and parents seemed to have a good time because the Hitmen didn’t play a very good game and lost 5-1 to Prince Albert.
 
Tomorrow morning Karlee has to hit the lab again for another CBC.  This is the first time Dad has been concerned that the counts might not be high enough for her to go for treatment on Tuesday.  She needs to get her ANC up to 750 otherwise she will be delayed until her counts come back up.  Most kids are delayed several times during treatment, but so far Karlee hasn’t been affected by that.