Exhausted!!!!

March 8, 2009

Hello everyone, this is Marie. My mom is too tired to write the weekly letter so she has delegated me to do it for her. :) This week has been normal I guess, just the normal stuff going on.

Jolene had Chemo and Radiation every day this week in the mornings. Thank you for taking her Ruth, Linda, Grandma, Savanna this week and Stephanie next week. Thanks a ton, it helps out a lot! I know that she has appreciated it a lot, and my dad appreciates it too. My mom is feeling really, really tired. She sleeps pretty much all day. I think her routine is to wake up, go to Marv’s, shower, eat breakfast, go to her treatments, come home, eat, and then she goes to bed until she wakes up for dinner or a snack or whatever. When I get home from school she’s asleep, and then when I get home from practice she’s eating dinner. Then at like 7 we have prayers then she’s asleep by 7:30. So basically she sleeps a lot. She also doesn’t have a lot of energy. She’ll get better though. And I know that she’s excited to be done at the end of this week. On Monday I think the doctors will tell her what is going to happen after this round is done. She thinks that they’ll probably give her some time without any treatments to let her body recover, and then they’ll do the scans all over again. We don’t know for sure, but we’ll find out. Thanks for thinking about her and praying for her, it really is helping.

Ron is finally done with his hours!!! He is so excited to be done with all his administrative hours! Now he just has one more class I think, then he’ll be ready for graduation in May. He is also looking forward to be able to do what he wants to do when he goes off track. Pretty sure he’s going to be going to Moab for like a week in May. That’s what he did last year with Cleo and he absolutely loved it. I think that he will probably miss being at Bingham though. It was funny to see how excited he was about getting to wear one of those walkie talkies in his ear, and being on the inside of everything that goes on about Bingham. It was kind of nice to have him know everything about Bingham cause then I could get some information from him, like what the basketball schedule was and everything. Congratulations Dad for getting all 450 administrative intern hours!!!

Savanna was busy this week too. On Tuesday she took the day off from school to take Jolene to treatment. Then she had coaching lax all week and school. I think she likes her new class of 2^nd graders. It’s funny to hear all the stories she tells about what goes on in the life of a 2^nd grader. She is going to be a great teacher. I’ve realized from her stories, that it takes a ton of patience to be a teacher. Good for her for having that patience. Savanna is also turning out to be a pretty good lax coach. At the beginning of the season I didn’t think she’d do that great, but she’s proving me wrong. She really does know a lot of stuff about the game and now I wish that she would’ve told me some of this stuff 2 years ago! Oh well, its fun to have her be there everyday and coach, I like it.

For me this week it was a normal week. Busy with school, lax, homework, and hanging out. It was sad for Bingham this week. We did well at basketball but lost by like 20 pts in the semi-finals to Lone Peak. We also took 2^nd in Debate which is really sad cause we’ve won state for like the last 3 years in Debate. Oh well, maybe next year. Ha ha but it was really funny at the basketball game cause we had a theme of superhero’s so the fans all dressed up in superhero attire and aw man, it was great. There were these two kids that were dressed up as Luke Skywalker, and the red guy, Darth Mal? But anyway, they had their light sabers and the force, so during half time they had a duel with the force and their light sabers, it was so good. Ha ha, I guess you had to be there, but it was pretty funny.

That’s about it for our family I think. Daylight savings started today so that’s weird but it’s exciting cause that means that summer is closer! It’s still freezing cold outside though, but oh well. Thanks for all the support and the prayers that you give our family! It helps us out more than you know. We love you all and have a great week!!!

-The Davidson Family :)