Mom had Flue

Mom had a terrible case of the flue Sunday. She was vomiting, diahrea and just miserable. I was quite worried if it was the flue or something else. It only lasted a day and she seems fine now. She is strong. We got her gaterade, to keep her electrolites up and she drank a lot of that yesterday and was careful what she ate, but it seems to have passed now. I was going to stay home from Oregon, but she seems ok and said she would feel bad if I didn't go. We have people calling and visiting with her every day, so I guess I'll go unless something happens between now and tomorrow. We will only be there a couple of days and it's only a 6 hr drive if we had to come home earlier.

Thanksgiving!

Stacey's family and possibly Josh's family are going to be at Whitnie's for Thanksgiving, so we really wanted to go to visit everyone. I have people lined up to visit mom every day and our bishop and his wife are bringing her Thanksgiving dinner. They wanted her to join them for dinner but she doesn't think that she will feel up to it. I tried to talk her into letting me get someone to stay the night here, but she wouldn't hear of it. We will only be gone a couple of days, and we will wait till the last minute to see how she is feeling. We will make a big Thanksgiving dinner here the following week end.

Flowers for Mother

My sister Dolores's son, Scott Derrickson and his family sent mother beautiful flowers. They were in such a beautiful vase, the color really doesn't do it justice.

Mother loves flowers and that was so sweet of them to think of her. She seems to be doing well other than her neck is really getting big. She says it doesn't hurt and it doesn't seem to affect her eating. I guess all we can do is keep an eye on it. If it was painful, I'm not sure she would tell me until it got unbearable.

Blanche and Les hanging out!

I'm in Arizona with Mark and Molly who just had their baby girl. Les was kind enough to stay with mom, while I am here. He will fly out for the blessing. It's hard for us to go for any length of time with mom. She is doing well, but her neck is getting really big. I don't know if it is from steroids she took for a few days a month or so ago, or if it is because of the cancer. She didn't take the steroids for long and it seemed to help her neck, that is at this point her worst problem. It's just hard for her to keep her head up for very long. She's not in pain if she lays down. Anyway, the steroids seemed to help that problem for awhile and even shrunk her stomach quite a bit. Now her stomach is getting bigger again. Who knows, as long as she's not in pain, that's the important thing.