Ray’s Blog

Shawn’s family has a tradition at Christmas of coming up with the most unintentional, tacky gift. I have one suggestion I found on eBay. If anyone has others, please let me know. Just trying to help.

This year, Halloween was very different. It’s the first time I have been a non-participant. I received two shots yesterday, one neulasta and one neumega and those things knock you on your ass! Neulasta effects bone marrow and encourages it to produce more white blood cells. Neumega is to increase my platelet count. Both counts need to be high enough so I can get my chemo. I was feeling not so bad yesterday. I was hooked up to my pump and at work. But after those shots, BAM! Taking ativan is helping me get through it but I’m just exhausted. I took four hours worth of naps today after getting a good eight hours of sleep last night.

I dragged myself to my in-laws for the kids’ trick-or-treating. All I could do was lay there on the sofa. This will be one Halloween with missing video. I sent Christina out with the still camera instead. I just did what was easiest. This was the worst timing. If it had been one week from now or even a couple of days from now, I would have been fine. I wonder how I’ll be for Christmas? There’s no way to tell. I’m starting my shopping now, and online has never been so convenient or needed. Thank (insert deity here) for this laptop!

The future is still bright for me if I can muster the determination needed to get a perfect 44434 score (I think that’s perfect since no one’s gotten higher) in Spoiled Rotten by The Sutter Group. I’m RS listed as #12 in the top 100 which looks like it’s based on the fact that my game was the 12th to achieve this score. So I’m hoping I will always be #12. It also looks like I am the 9th person to do so according to the initials used. First, I cracked the top 100 (which are the only scores that deserve to be shown) with a ranking of #83 at 37327. But that wasn’t good enough.