Sometimes there just aren’t enough surgeries – or doctors – or chemotherapies – or prayers. And you have to wipe the tears from your cheeks and say the words that you were hoping to never have to say…

Enough.

 Joey has had a rough last week or so since we’ve been home.  But the last couple of days have been much better and her sweet smile and energy is returning.  She and her mama June are flying back to CTCA tomorrow for the next phase of chemo therapy.  It will just be an overnight trip, so I’ll keep Indy here with me until they get back on Thursday evening.

After five long weeks of chemo and radiation, Joey got to ring the bell today…

They have a ceremony at CTCA where when someone finishes their last treatment… they get to ring the bell, and they make a celebration of that part of your journey being completed.

On Monday while we were home from the hospital, we picked a shady spot in the front yard and celebrated my beautiful wife Joey’s first 40 years of life.

We celebrated it with family…

My wife Joey still has a song to sing.

In fact, she has lots of songs that she wants to sing in the future.  It’s part of what gives her the strength to push on through all the nausea and pain that she’s been experiencing as she goes through cancer treatment.

That, and a sweet little one that makes even her toughest day, oh so much easier…

On Sunday we made the drive down to the Cancer Treatment Center of America in Newnan, GA – just outside of Atlanta.  We have been looking so forward to this trip, not because it’s going to be easy… but because it’s the next important step in Joey’s treatment to get her body rid of all the cancer that might still be lingering in her body after the surgery.

It’s been over three weeks since my last blog post and update on my bride.  Not because anything is wrong – honestly, it’s just because we’ve just been enjoying being together at home, and every day of every week since Joey got out of the hospital has had some ups and downs.  But as of about a week ago, things have started leveling out and it’s now easier to see where we are, and where we’re headed from here.

This morning Indiana and I walked from the hotel to the hospital to have breakfast with Joey in her room.  Afterwards, when Indy started getting fussy and Joey needed to get some rest, I took Indy outside to walk around the park that’s across from the hospital.  I pushed her in her stroller and we walked and walked as I sang “I Surrender All” to her while she enjoyed the morning breeze and talked to her hands.  It was still early in the morning so it was just us, no one else was around.