Seasons Greetings to Our Family and Friends,

From our home to yours, we wish you a Merry Christmas! Keeping you up to date, here's the next installment in the Dennis Family blog.

Myron is currently undergoing sessions in his third attempt at chemotherapy. He has had two sessions of it to date, and so far it seems to be going quite well. This chemo is one that is normally given once every three weeks, but Myron's doctor felt that he might tolerate it better if it was divided into smaller doses, so we go once a week (every Monday) for his treatments. There have been no major side effects to date and Myron is feeling quite well. We are hoping that the doctors have finally managed to get the correct level of painkillers established for him so that he no longer suffers the constant pain he was enduring. This past week or so has been much more comfortable for Myron, so we remain hopeful. Of course, Myron still tires very easily, so we must plan our day's activities accordingly so that he doesn't become completely exhausted. But, Myron being the man he is, we have accomplished a lot in these past few weeks. The house is decorated for Christmas - both inside and out, most of our Christmas shopping is complete, and most of that is already wrapped.

Myron standing in front of our house

Myron's brother Junior and his other half Bernie were up from Newfoundland last week and they came to visit with us. While here, Bernie made some homemade bread for us, so Myron has been in seventh heaven.

A visit with Junior and Bernie

We have been keeping busy both inside and outside of the home. We attend Mass at St. Justin's most Sundays, we still bowl on Monday evenings, and we have had dinner with friends, both at their homes and at ours. We held our third progressive euchre of the fall here a couple of weeks ago. Last Friday evening we participated in our neighbourhood's annual "Lighting of the Lights", our home being one of the stops in the evening's fun and fellowship.

 Enjoying our annual treat of "Moose Milk" outside Derrick & Miriam's home

 

Last Saturday evening we attended a Christmas party at the home of our friends, Reuben and Mary, and this coming Saturday evening we plan to attend the Elgie Bus Lines annual Christmas party, and from there go to another Christmas party at the home of our friends Chris and Gina. This upcoming Friday evening, our friend Derrick has tickets to the London Knight's hockey game, and Myron, Chris, and our friend Tony are attending the game with Derrick. This past Sunday, the Sanderson family came to London and we had a visit here and then we went out for lunch at Crabby Joe's.

 



The Sandersons out for lunch at Crabby Joes

 

As you can see, life in the Dennis household remains busy. In addition to those activities we have already mentioned, there are of course Myron's myriad of medical appointments, the annual Christmas baking, and our daily chores of meal preparation, housework and the never-ending laundry. As we have stated previously, we are trying to live our lives as normally as possible within the constraints of Myron's illness. We basically are living a day at a time, trying to live life as fully as possible. We set mini targets for ourselves, giving us something in the near future to look forward to and aim toward. Right now, we are joyfully anticipating Christmas, looking forward to spending it with our children and their families. We pray daily that Myron's health will remain good, and that we will reach each mini target we have set for ourselves.

 

That's about all the news for now. We'll attempt to get one more posting of this blog published and out to you shortly before Christmas. Please continue to keep us in your prayers. Love to you all.

 

Myron and Wendy