On March 9, 2007--the 2 year anniversary of our triplets' births--a judge in Oklahoma signed permission for Xavi and me to leave OK so that we could go home and begin living as a family. My arms had been empty for exactly 2 horrible years. Xavier came home, made it impossible to not fall head over heels for him, and healed our hearts.
And now I sit here exactly 3 years after that, with terminal metastatic cancer. making it absolutely impossible for me to deny that things can change at any moment without me having any control. The second life altering (life killing?) event in our lives as the Santaballa-Marcum family.
To update, I am feeling a million times better than I was last month. Tarceva was a monster at first, but my body settled into it and I'm moving along. I have been able to resume some of my childcare responsibilities. Tomorrow I will be allowed to drive, albeit with a bunch of restrictions in place. This will greatly improve the quality of my life. I have to get a ride to go to the MJ dispensary. How humiliating is that?!
As for the Audi, it is definitely out of the running. $69K??? I could buy 3 decent cars for that. We're looking at some other alternative fuel vehicles with the 3rd row.
That's it for now. I will let you all know how it goes on my first day of driving in 6 months tomorrow.
