Through The Waters

     Wowsers, it's been a while since I've sat myself down without babe in arms (she's sleeping in Timothy's arms over on the far side of our living room - we are both quietly working away on our own things, yet remembering to have time together, the two of us, the four of us, whatever that means.  In the midst of the busyness and schedules of the day, it's so good to turn the lights low, gaze across our newly rearranged living room and find my eyes laying on our newest piece of furniture.  A bookshelf and a baby swing made room for a piano - a wonderful gift from a new friend and certainly I never believed that we would be a piano owing family but there is in, in all it's ivory and wood glory, just waiting to be played.  Our afternoon Ava-cuddler was the first one to wring an actual song from the instrument, hopefully with time and a lot of patience I can learn a little more about music and playing it.  Martha is very musical and we'd love to be able ...

It's early evening and the girls are asleep. Martha's had her bath, Ava's just fed, and Danielle's also made her way to bed. She's been dealing with a lot of nausea since she had chemo on Monday... Yes, it's Timothy, Danielle's husband, writing this post. After we met with the oncology team at Sunnybrook there was about a week where we were waiting for another CT scan, bloodwork, an ECG - all of the stuff that needed to happen before they could tell us whether Danielle was in the trial. We went in on a Monday for all those appointments and we were told that it was then a matter for them to input our data into a computer, answer a few questions, and then the answer would come back as to whether we would be included in the study. Tuesday came and went and we learned on Wednesday: Danielle had been selected to participate in the study. Since it was an open study we knew that Danielle was receiving the experimental drug, a stem cell inhibitor in pill form th...