Christmas Visit

We had a wonderful trip to Nano & Pops for Christmas! We all piled into the mini-van and headed North on December 21 and finally arrived in Snellville on Dec 22. It was so good to see Nano & Pops... seeing them on Skype just isn't the same! Zach and Mia had so much fun running around the house chasing after the cats, especially Cleo! We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day together as a family with Uncle Ichie of course. And Frank and Linda also joined us for dinner on both nights.

Despite Pops being sick and much weaker he was always in good spirits. He is strong and such a fighter. However, it was evident especially on this visit how the cancer has effected him. He was much weaker and at times his nausea kept him from eating, but we all (especially Richard) kept him eating as best we could. The hope is for him to gain weight and build up his red blood cells. I think Zach and Mia were the best medicine of all to lift his spirits. They love their Pops (and Nano) so very much.

We hated to go, but we headed back to South Florida on Dec 27 arriving home on Dec 28. We spoke to Nano, Pops and Richard on our way back home and they informed us that Pops had unfortunately gotten Bells Palsy again. He went to the ER on Dec 28 and got some medicine which hopefully will relieve his symptoms.

Pops does not go back to the Dr. for a couple weeks so I will update his status again soon.