Daisies and Rainbows

As I type Ashley is receiving her 3rd chemo drug of the day. This last one will not be finished until around 11:00 tonight. Ash has been sleeping most of the day and thus far all seems to be tolerating the chemo just fine. If she is going to have side effects we don't expect them to show up for a few days or a week. Tonight I pray that we will be able to get our Gherkin through this cancer and that before long we will all be sitting together in our home looking back at this chapter in Ashley's Story.

Trish and I recently had a conversation concerning Ashley's cancer. Trish was telling me that she guesses that we are going to just have to learn to not live in fear. I was telling her that I already don't worry and don't live in fear. I told her I was kind of encouraged during our meeting last Friday with the oncologist. It was this point that she turned and looked at me like I was some kind of space alien. "How could you possibly be encouraged?!? our daughter has cancer!" Then she told me I was living in a land of daisies and rainbows but certainly not in reality. I don't know about the rainbows, but I do try to look at the glass as half full. I think deep down inside Trish does too. I was laughing tonight because Trish was telling me that I have turned my kids into little daisies and rainbows.

Tonight I am very thankful to my parents and to God for giving me a spirit of daisies and rainbows.

DAVE