Time Keeps Moving!

Hey everyone Happy Saturday! Well I am very excited to say that I am feeling pretty good today. This is the second month of the newer treatment and it is better than the previous first month. If you remember, the first month took two weeks after the chemo week to get better. Then I started the second month of chemo pill, which last 5 days. I finished on April 11th and it took just one week before I started to feel a little better. Today I feel pretty good and am excited that during this second month I got better quicker. It was also nice to have an idea of what body changes could be coming. Month number 3 is just around the corner and maybe that will be even quicker to return to normal. We 'll have to wait and see just what happens.

I am also excited that today I got to be involved with some of my extended fire family as the City of Riverside participates in a cancer walk that will last for 24 hours. What is cool is that the fire department will have people walk around the track for the whole 24 hours. My name got put in as a survivor which was really nice. It was really wonderful to see some of the extended family, which I miss by not showing up at my station and running calls. Thanks to those that included me and thanks to those that organized the event for the department.

As a small bit of interesting info last Saturday Hallie and I were featured in the Press Enterprise newspaper on the front of the Local section. Pretty incredible to get to be interviewed and share my story with the reporter. They also did video so that video section is on their site. If you want to see us on video then use this link, http://www.pe.com/video/riverside-index.html?nvid=237362&shu=1, or you could just use this link to see the article. (www.pe.com/localnews/rivcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_S_firefighter19.429bb83.html) It was very nice having some people who I have never met see the blog. It has been a great way for God to allow some others to see and hear some of HIS words. This seems like a great way to share some of my thoughts and feeling with many different people.

Lastly I previously spoke of our family addition. Well, we have added CeCe, a wonderful chocolate lab puppy. She is almost exactly opposite of the 7 year old chocolate lab, but a wonderful growing addition to our fantastic family. We got her on the Saturday before Easter and it was a nice surprise for Hunter. She was 7 pounds and after only three weeks she was 16 pounds. Whew, growing faster than we were ready for, but she is awesome. I hope that everyone is great and continues to take time to share moments, events and thoughts with their families as truly that is the most important thing that God has for each of our lives. Take care everyone!