Everythings coming up Roses… so far

Don’t mind me if I seem to have quiet reservations when it comes to my Wife’s health or our son’s mental health for that matter. While not a Debbie Downer or a Doubting Thomas I am genuinely relieved that things are going smoothly and both my wife and son appear to be doing well….. I can’t help but wait with quiet reservation for the Hammer to fall…again.

For those that don’t know, our son had a large brain tumor and had surgery January 7th 2013 to remove it, the surgery was a success and other being partially blind in his right eye and left an emotional wreck he is doing just fine, he is now 13 years old and in grade 8, he loves school and is an almost straight A student.

February 28 ,2014 my wife was diagnosed with stage 4 (end stage) Lung Cancer,and for the last 8 months she has been in and out of the Cancer center receiving Chemo, we almost lost her back in early March,She is on a 2 month break from the Cancer center and doesn’t have to go back until November 25th for a CT-Scan.

So know you can understand why I have my quiet reservations, after 2 years of constant Hospitals and doctors, and almost losing the 2 people who mean more to me than my own life itself, I find it very difficult to be overly optimistic or to let my guard down,I watch over them like a hawk, I ask both of them how they are feeling and doing multiple times per day, every day.

But at the moment our son is doing so well he doesn’t require bi monthly appointments with his counsellor, he is holding his own quite well and seems happy and able to cope with life quite well.

My wife is also doing very well, she only uses her oxygen machine at night when she sleeps, she’s got good control of any pain with twice daily doses of both Morphine and Oxycodone, she is doing so well that she now can share our bed (first time in 8 months) and we are getting back some normalcy in our lives.

This is all great news, but I still can’t bring myself to relax and get complacent, I worry about every little cough or sneeze, I worry that our son will bring home some virus (cold or flu) and I will have to have him stay at a friends until he is better because my wife’s immune system is so severely compromised from all the Chemo, I worry about me getting sick and not being able to look after them or drive her to her many doctor appointments, the rule around this house is if you have a cough you can’t come in, if you have a sneeze you can’t come in, we ask that you wash your hands for at least 60 seconds with soap and water every time you use the washroom (surprisingly many folks don’t do this) and to use hand sanitizer before touching food or while working in the kitchen.

To say I am somewhat stressed would be an understatement, I keep a full tank of gas in the car and the doctors on speed dial. But despite this, I do enjoy spending quality time and conversing with my wife and our son, I stay positive and upbeat for them and listen with a smile as my wife talks about next year being a better year for us all.

So far everything seems to be coming up roses, and I would like for it to stay that way for awhile, I seriously need to decompress and relax a bit and be able to enjoy life being relatively normal for us at the moment.

I blog quite abit about many different things, some are light hearted some a tad more serious, and yes I’ll be posting more recipe’s again in the next little while, I blog for many reasons, one being it is my therapy, I’d go nucking futs if I couldn’t blog!! another reason is, I want the world to know about my wife and son (and I guess me) and how happy they make me and what a blessing each of them are to everyone they meet. I want the world to know that,yes, it is possible to find and marry your soul mate and to love someone more than life itself, it doesn’t just happen in fairy tales, it happens in real life too ,but unfortunately the outcome is not like the fairy tales, in real life the two lovers don’t always live happily ever after, no matter how hard they pray for it to be. I want the world to know that same sex couples can and do raise perfectly normal heterosexual children. I want the world to know that same sex marriages are not the end of heterosexual marriages and in fact have zero impact on them at all. There are lots more reasons that I blog,and if you stick around for the long haul those reasons will reveal themselves.

Anyway, that’s all for tonight folks, so remember :express your love often,never take tomorrow for granted,and be kind to others.

Butch
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Canada’s Federal Election is coming in October

So it is election year again, a time when we choose our next @sshole er I mean Prime Minister to destroy , er I mean take care of our Great Nation ….

Technically there are 4 candidates to choose from , in no particular order they are Elizabeth May , leader of the Green Party , Thomas Mulcair , leader of the NDP ( New Democratic party) , Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party, and finally … Stephen Harper , Leader of the Nazi Party , er I mean Progressive Conservative Party .

Elizabeth May is out for sure, the Green Party only has 1 seat in Government, they are so hopelessly small and so far out to lunch they don’t even really count when it comes to Politics. I am not entirely sure what exactly the Green party stands for other than Environmentalism, to the vast majority of Canadians who are at least semi aware of the Green Party, they are thought of as an Environmental group playing politics … and seldom taken seriously , it would be like Greenpeace running for office in the USA …. same sort of thing.

Justin Trudeau and the Liberal party… Personally I do think the Liberals should be in power, the last time the liberals were in power, they balanced the budget, Canada was debt free and had a 13 Trillion dollar surplus , they made same sex marriage legal and made sure the LGBT community had Equal rights the same rights every Canadian takes for granted, They believe it is a womans right to choose what to do with her own life and body , they are pro choice, unemployment across Canada was low and the Canadian Dollar was stronger than the US’s ….. their downfall… the Long gun Registry , which basically turned every hunter and farmer into criminals for owning rifles , and did nothing to curb gun violence , it made it easier for criminals to obtain guns while making it near impossible for law abiding citizens obtain firearms. …. as long as they don’t try to force the registry on us again , they would be the best choice for Canada.

Thomas Mulcair and the NDP Party …. I truly fear these @ssholes , they are bad news for Canada, and will completely destroy our Great nation within the first 4 years of power, every single province that had the NDP leading them was left a barren wasteland of high unemployment, everyone who could afford to fled the provinces , they took the wealthiest provinces and turned them into the poorest , this is a FACT , just google them, they destroyed British Columbia and it has never fully recovered, they destroyed Saskatchewan , and that province is still trying to fully recover from their reign of tyranny and policies , they have utterly destroyed Manitoba, manitoba is now the poorest province in Canada, they are now in control of Alberta , which was a very prosperous province, rich in oil reserves and other resources, the NDP have stated point blank that they want to shut the oil industry down , that the Government should own all the resources , sadly the young folks buy into what the NDP are selling with absolutely no knowledge of the NDP track record so they vote for them. If they leave a trail of mass unemployment and poverty in every province they have held power in…. just imagine what they will do to an entire Country . Canada will be destroyed within 4 years.

Stephan Harper , and the Progressive Conservatives … or otherwise known as Satan and the Nazi Regime …. he has been in power for the last 12 years, he cares less about the environment, in fact he has removed the protected classifications on more than 5000 fresh water lakes , shrunk national parks and tried to do away with nature reserves, He deliberately got us kicked out of the UN ( we no longer have the right to an opinion or idea concerning world affairs) , he spent that 13 trillion dollar surplus within 6 months of being in office on big oil companies and other big industry and has put Canada so deep in debt it will take 20 years to recover, he fought against medical marijuana and stopped funding for science and technology , he cares less about global warming and has been trying to shove the oil pipelines down our American brothers and sisters throats , failing that he plans to run pipelines across Canada from the west to the east , right through park land and nature preserves and delicate wetlands , not to mention right through Aboriginal territories and lands with no regard for how they may feel about it, he absolutely does not give a damn about the ecosystem, Aboriginals or anyone for that matter, all he cares about is big oil and kissing the USA’s ass . He was voted in simply because he did away with the long gun registry and the farmers and hunters are no longer criminals for owning rifles.

I will be utterly shocked if Harper gets voted back into power , and sadly I will not be surprised to see the NDP take power, there are millions of new young voters who buy into their social programs and environmental ideals , but they vote without knowing the NDP history without knowing what the NDP have done to every province they have governed. it will be a ruddy miracle if the Liberals get into power again, I think they will be the official opposition ( they will take second place) .

Regardless of who you Vote for , if you are Canadian get out there and Vote , have a say in what goes on in Canada , but choose wisely , we ALL have to live with the consequences of your vote.

So that’s all for now , Remember Folks : express your love often, never take tomorrow for granted , and be kind to others .

Butch
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