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- oh, good.. did you see byron? - yeah. - [kate] nice job. you get a chore sticker. - [shane] poom, poom, poom, poom, poom, poom, poom, poom i ve been working from home for well over a year and almost three months now. (laughs) there s one option. covid has helped us be able to spend more time together that we had actually not really had even right after matthew was born. - thank you. - we had 2020 be our year of kind of putting our family bond above everything else. good morning, good morning how are you this morning good morning, good morning to you - [kate] 2020 was a hard year. i went through three different treatments that didn t work out so well. there was a period of time where i was on a drug ....
- in this house, we say the word cancer, cancer, with a little lilt in our voice because we don t want to scare matthew. he doesn t really get yet that we re talking about it just being him and daddy at some point. we haven t really gone there yet. - if you want. - sure. (somber music) - he knows that my natural tendency is to move fast. you know, the phrase i always use is power through. you ve gotta power through some hard things and with cancer that s kinda dangerous. (laughs) now we re gonna get up, right? now we re up. now we feel good. i don t wanna lose my image of myself as somebody that takes care of other people. like, that s always been such a big part of my identity that the idea of slowing down and letting other people do for me feels like losing myself. ....
- it s actually not bad, right? you re pleading the fifth? (laughs) - i ll let the middle of the night tell me whether or not- - [kate] it s not bad. you re not gonna get food poisoned. - no. - no way. - you re right. - that s right. - [kate] good? thank you. - matthew teaches me well. (soft music) (siren wails) (monitor beeping) (people chattering) - why can t i get a recliner? husband chairs aren t made to be comfortable. - yeah. - except in the mall. - yeah. - then they are designed to be comfortable cause a happy husband means a happy wife. - mm-hmm. ....
(person speaks indistinctly) it was like i was . i don t know when he s gonna lose his mom and i just, i hope it s at an age where he understands that i m not leaving him. i love him and i will always watch over him. he s my world. those boys are my world. and i would do anything for them. and so, to be letting them down like this is so hard. - there they are. - there s max and matthew. looked, but he won t wave. you know me. you know me. - max is smiling. - i just hope he knows that i loved him with everything i had and i will do whatever it takes to stay with him as long as i can. (psst psst) ahhhh. ....
We always talked about growing old and being able to see our kids and our grandkids being able to play out in the front law after a knockout career. i m not ready. i m not ready to be a single parent. i don t know where to go from that point in time. we have chemo thursday, chemo thursday, and then i m supposed to be in richmond to work on the book. i ll go straight to virginia cancer specialist to do my labs and then come home, hopefully, in time to pick up matthew. - we need to make sure that this date in particular you ve got some kind of rest cause this is a lot. - but then, we move into february and stuff slows down. - that looks like an empty calendar. - yeah, we ve got- - are you okay? are you gonna live? you have an empty calendar for february and it s already in january. - we have basketball. - oh. ....