Community Service Opportunities

Hey friends who keep asking how you can help - see the new events added to the calendar here:  

https://posthope.org/not-a-big-fan-of-pink/calendar

You can sign-up to either give me a ride to a treatment or to pick up the boys from school and give them a ride home!  

Rides to treatment: These are on alternating Mondays and I need to be picked up at home around 9:30 and will be ready to head home from the hospital by 1pm or so for the next three treatments and then between 2-3 PM or so for the last four treatments.  But, of course, these times are subject to change.  You can drop me off at the hospital or you can stay and hang out with me, whatever you prefer.  I may not always feel like being chatty, but when I do, we can make cancer jokes.  Or eventually bald jokes.

Rides home for the kids:  DO NOT sign up for a day if there are already two days covered in that week.  I put it on the calendar for each school day during the weeks of treatments so that you can have your choice of days - not because we need it every day!  I felt woozy a lot the week of my first treatment and I figured it would take some pressure off Dan if he did not have to worry about picking up the kids once or twice during those weeks.  The other days, if I'm up for it, I'll get them. If not, Dan can pick them up!  Also, for friends with kids who have volunteered play-dates, this is a great time for that if you want to do a weeknight play-date and feed them dinner.  Logistics - They need to be picked up from their extended day program before 6:00 PM.  If you are planning a play-date, you can get them anytime after school is out and they should probably be home before their 8:00 PM bedtime.

Food:  We decided against putting meals on here because we tend to have too much in our small fridge already and I am still working through some of the frozen meals from the original post-surgery meal train!  If things change and I decide we could use more help, I'll add it.  For now, I will stick with take-out when I'm not up for cooking. 

Plus, the greatest pecan pie of my LIFE was delivered to me on Saturday and it has to be all downhill from there.  You really can't beat it.  It's torturing me that it's all gone....