Tuesday after the river

Hi We came home about 10 pm last night. I slept well and am some what rested. It's a steroid day and I'm a little jittery. I'm on my way to work this morning. I ran out of test strips yesterday so im guessing on my insulin medications. I have been taking 4 to 5 ml quick acting shots about 4 to 5 times a day. I think I'm doing ok. But we will see. The river was good. I took Ron and Debbie Jensen out on the boat on Saturday and right at the launch ramp I hit an under water curb with the prop. Banged 3 blades so we were only able to go about 10 miles an hour. We made our way to the dam on lake Mohave. We pulled into the cove near the enterance to Katherins landing. We hung out for a couple of hours and then came back in after lunch. It was a real pleasent day on the water even though we hit the prop. The rest of the weekend I rested. I am on day four of the steroid. Usually an uneventful day but we will see. I need to get to work and produce some sales.

Jill will be happy about that. The Covina Auto Electric seems to be going well. We have had a few cars in and out. I have to go have a blessed day. Peter Get well. (Step brother 3pl by pass)

Sunday

HI everyone. Jill and I are at the river. Its sunday and I'm having Blood sugar problems, Most of the day I have been at about 200+ in my readings. I'm trying to eat right but its hard to keep the sugar in line when the sugar is so out of wack. I hit my prop at the doc yesterday with in 5 minutes of being in the water. I bent to of the four fins. So we had a hard time getting the boat running. I took it for a few a little run with the Jensens. We went to a cove and had fun just sitting and swimming. Ted and the kids finally showed up and we sat and had lunch. I took a little nap and then Ted took us back to the launch ramp. For a holiday weekend it was very busy. So I was very sad when I hit the prop. I was pulling out of the launch area when a boat almost hit us. That made me pull forward so that I would not get hit by the boat. I hit a curd under the water. I thought I was done hitting props in the water. Anyway we did get out a little and had fun. Today is day 3 on the steroid. I have one more day and have one more day of test strips. I took 4 shot of insulin today and have 2 more to go. I hope to get things in line before I go to work next week. 

Wednesday Aril 21

Good News, Thank the Lord for his provision. I receieved a  bill for Dr Chmelowski's first visist when I was doing poorly. The bill was paid by the insurance and all I need to do is add the copay. The Copay's have been pretty expensive these days. But I'm glad to have insurance. Jason had his birthday this week. 15 years old. He is growing up and becoming a man. I thank Jesus for his love of his family. Kevin is getting married and has found a nice paying job with Parson's. This is a big company that has different engineering jobs. He starts this in June. Alina is working at church and hopes to get more hours for the near future. Brian and Kristine are working and living in Pasadena. They are doing ok. Brian is passing his exams for CPA and should have everything done for his CPA by the end of Next year or early 2010. I'm doing ok for now. I have started insullin for the days I'm on the steroid. I took two shots on Wednesday and hope I dont have to use it again until next Saturday. I'm feeling week and old when I'm not on the steroids.  Monica is looking for a job today and hopes to be working in the mall. I hope it works out for her. I hope she finds a job soon.

Monday a good day

Monday, I had a good day at work. I worked until 5 pm which was all day. I did a measure in Alhambra at 3:30 for carpet and linoleum. The day went fairly well with a short nap at 10:30 am. I had a good nights sleep last night again with about 7 hours of sleep. Thank you Lord for the rest I have been getting. I feel refreshed in the morning and I call upon your name to restore my strength. You are to be praised and glorified so I do that this morning. It's Tuesday 6:49 am and you are to be trusted. Jason is 15 years old today. Im proud of the man he is becoming. Lord bless his day and give him the strength to do your will in his life. give him wisdom to know what is right and wrong and courage to follow your leading all the days of this life.  He is having friends coming over for a swim this afternoon. We are having a BBQ for his birthday and he wants to eat a stake. I'm happy to have stake as well. 

Satuday and Sunday

I had a quiet weekend. No major or minor issues. the blood sugar is still a problem when I'm on the steroids. I talked to the doctor on Wednesday. He thinks it is best to get on insulin for the days i'm on the steroid. This will help blance out my days so that my blood sugar will not create high and low spikes. Today i had a reading of 244 and yesterday 299. These are very high and can cause long term problems if not corrected. Strokes, heart attaches, kidney failure. right now I take a pill metrormin 500 ml. This helps the natural insulin in my body absorb into my blood sugar. I'm not sure how quickly this works but it is the most prescribed diabetes pill on the market. Monday I'm going to work and see how much I can get done before 2:30 pm. Jill and I bought into an automotive repair business in Covina. Covina Auto Electric. 341 3 San Bernardino rd. Ron Welch and Jill are the owners. Kevin -23 engineering student is starting to work for Parsons Engineering in Pasadena. This is a large engineering company. He will be paid intern. Nice, he needs the job because he is getting married in August.

Wednesday April 15th

Wednesday was a difficult day. Tuesday night I was up all night with the runs and then I started my revilmid in the morning. The revilimid has sever side effects so I slept all day on Wednesday. I finally feel okay this morning. I was able to eat a little oatmeal and bread. I'm planning on taking the revilimid later in the day so I can get some work done. Tomorrow I start the dexamethodone again. Hopefully I'll be able to make it thru the day without problems.  My blood sugar is okay right now. I have to watch it when I go on the steroids again.  The doctor wants me to take insullin on the steroid days. This is to keep my blood sugar closer in line so that I dont have the big mood swings. Prayer request - as I start the chemo drugs again balance in my life. Help me to get to work and then back home without being sick.  

Today was a day without energy. I had a dr's appointment at 1:30 today. Jill and I went to visit Chrissy in the hospital. She had a apendix rupture and had surgery. She looked good and was sleeping ok. The doctor said that I needed to get my blood sugar in line. This morning I had blood sugar at 70 this morning. I'm way off this afternoon. I need to get things together with this blood sugar.

Steve

Mothers Day

We had a nice day yesterday. JIll and I went to the 11:00 service with Jason. Then came home. Kevin bbq'd the stakes and we had lunch out side on the patio. I slept most of the afternoon until company started coming over. MY Mom and Loretta, Patty came over for games and pizza. I slept some more and finally went to bed. Jill and I were in Newport Beach on Saturday. We rode the bikes to Wilma's for lunch and then went to the beach for a little sun and reading, and resting. I made it thru the day without a problem. We had a nice weekend here and enjoyed a little relaxing. Sunday was good as well altough I was worn out from the day before. Hope you had a nice mothers day.

Steve

saturday morning. i'm on the dexamethodone and i have more energy. I'm hoping to get a good day of rest.I did walk with Jill yesterday. Its day 2 on the steroid. I want to get out and maybe ride the bike at the beach today. Its hot and i need to get out and exercise some more. I am still having problems with my blood sugar when I'm on the steroid. This morning my blood sugar reading was 191. this is really high. I am having problems with diaareria when I'm on the steroid. 

Tough Day

Hi Everyone, It's 4:30 am this morning. I'm up and recovering from a head cold and cough. Yesterday was not a good day. I spent most of the day recovering from the cough and runny nose as well as the flu. I had trouble with the adjustment from the steroids this time. I dont know why this happens but it does. I tried to work yesterday but had problems concentrating on the measurements. I have a few jobs going this week so I'm okay for now. I just landed a 30,000 job for unfinished wood which will be installed. It will be a very nice home in Glendora, and I'm excited to get this one done and installed. I am quoting a nice job for a staircase of wood. It looks like it will be about 9,000. So hopefully, I'll be able to get both started and installed quickly. I have a few more bids to finish if I can concentrate on getting the bid done. My head keeps spinning which makes me lie down for a rest. Today I get my bone strengthener shot. For some reason my body is my making enough Calcium. This shot takes the calcium in my body and welds it to the bones. So somehow I need to get more calcium into my body for today.

Still getting thur

Hi I'm still trying to get thru the adjustment period for the chemo drugs. I keep having to run to the bathroom for the first day or to. Today I;m still working but have been home most of the day recovering from the flu and a bad cold. I have my bone strengthener tomorrow in which i need to have more calcium in my stystem. I am planning on taking suppliments and iron for tomorrow and hopefully I make it thru. My blood sugar is better when im not on the steroids. Today I was able to eat my regular food and not be effected by the swing in blood sugar. Leslie Hans the former owner of the house stopped by and visited.  Prayer reqest - My blood sugar is still a learning curve for me. I need to know how to deal with it effectively. My bone strengtherner will be a challenge to manage. I need more calcium in my system for tomorrow.

Steve 

Saturday Morning

HI All. I made it thru this week. Monday to Wednesday were recovery days at home. I was pretty sick with no energy, and I picked up a bug over the weekend. I'm on an anitbody this week for a broncial infection. Thurday and Friday Jill and I went to work toghter. She drove me to my appointments. I made some good headway on the Quotes and some orders. I did enter about 10 orders this week. I did a couple of walk thru and finished up a couple of refinish jobs. The high light was the house in La Canada, We put in 1400 sf of walnut and finished to a amber brown. the carpets were installed this week and the house was turned over to the customer to move in. It came out beautiful. I just quoted a 1400 sf project here in glendora. I believe we got this one too. I'm doing okay my meyloma blood work is showing a slight improvement. its a slow process. The hard thing is getting used to the cycle of drugs. My revilimid drugs have so many side affects that are causing my the main problems. but I have to take them. I did sleep 7 hours last night. I'm happy to be alive today. let the sun shine in your life today.

Steve