Motherhood doesn't stop for Cancer

I think someone forgot to send the memo to my childrens' teachers that I have cancer.

I do keep trying to remind the University of Utah OR schedulers and all my family and friends that "the world does revolve around me...I mean, I HAVE CANCER !!!" Doesn't anyone running the clock, calendar and events scheduling know that I need more sleep, more attention from my husband and kids and way more time to just sit and read books and catch up on all those soap operas that I haven't even thought about watching for the last 20 years???

Everyone keeps telling me that I need to slow down and rest...but they forgot to tell that to the laundry, dishes, Santa projects, the school projects, the reading assignments, book reports, piano practicing, soccer games, basketball games, birthdays, haircuts, band concerts, early days at school, ...you know, all the daily living stuff.

So when I get done taking care of the very basics like making sure my child has had a bath in the last week...you will find me sitting in the recliner with the pile of good books and handiwork projects that I put in a "recuperating from cancer" pile just before I went into surgery (which was October 22nd...where has the time gone?). The up side of all this daily living is that I don't have much time to worry about how chemo is treating me or what is coming next round (hopefully much of the same!)...the down side is that rest is still a bit elusive. So until the bathing of a 6 and 9 year old no longer depend on my help....I guess my resting moments will have to be spent cuddling with a youngster that still needs to complete the daily 25 minutes of reading...well, 25 for today and who knows how much more for all the other days we missed this week--It could be worse, I could be sitting in a green lounge chair in the infusion room at Huntsman for 1 1/2 hours of REST and chemo. I think I choose homework!