Its official...he's a Skinhead!

Just look at that Good-lookin' head! Well, I missed taking the picture right before he went to the Mansfiled's and borrowed Trents electric shaver...dang it! So by the time I got to him, he had already started shaving his head! But if I had gotten a picture, you would have seen that he had completly gone balled, in just 4 spots on his head, he was starting to look like a cancer patient! Soo we shaved him smooth! It looks really good, he's lucky he has a perfect head for baldness..ha ha! Except for his scar on the top, which is a little lumpy-bumpy! But he cant see it, so it dosent bother him. But I think he looks a little mean and rough with no hair! The girls are sad though, cause they love to do their daddys hair, but I told them it will grow back before you know it!

He is now more than half way through his treatments...yea! The doctors are still so amazed that he is doing soo well, and feels so great! Jared told me just last night, I know his sounds crazy, but I feel better right now on Chem & Radiation, than I have felt in years! Weird huh? He used to kinda drag his left leg, and stumble when he walked...now he is running up the stairs (something I havent seen him do in a really long time!) It is such a miracle to us! Hopefully its a sign of things to come!

Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and prayers, we are soo blessed to have each of you in our lives..we feel your love!

13 Treatments down....20 more to go!

This Picture was our inspiration for wanting to do puzzles....it hangs up in the Huntsman Cancer Center. This puzzle was bought by Jon Huntsman, and given to one of his 18 year old grandsons as a joke. But the grandson looked at it as a quest! It took him 6 months to complete and has....get this.....24,000 peices! It is amazing to look at...and it makes our little 1000 peice puzzles look easy! See we can do hard things!

After 3 weeks, we are almost half way through Jared's Radiation & Chemo treatments. He will have a total of 33 treatments, so if everything goes as scheduled, he should be done sometime around, monday February 7th. The only thing that will change that is if he gets sick or if his white blood count goes down too low. They take a sample of his blood each week, and so far his count has been above normal, so thats great! He has been really lucky and he has felt really good! The only side effect he has had is that he sometimes feels a little dizzy at night after he takes his Chemo pills. But other than that, he has done great! But because of the Radiation he has a few balding spots on his head. The doctor said he will just loose his hair where they are radiating him. Its hard to tell in the pictures above, but its getting a little thin...we cut it short again last night, because hes finding hair everywhere!

When we go up to the Huntsman center for his appointments, they have puzzles in all the waiting rooms, at first I thought it was a little strange, but one day while I was waiting for Jared I sat down and started working on one, and I realized it was very relaxing, and very therapeutic. Sooo, weve been doing puzzles at our house! I think weve done a total of 5 puzzles, 1000 peices each! Its really fun and its been good for Jared...and It keeps him using his brain!