Saturday, February 9, 2008

weekend update

The Berlin mom is doing extraordinarily well! 5/8 finished with her first course of chemo, Edith was happy to see us, is ready to go home Monday morning after her last infusion Sunday evening, has to relieve her bladder more often than usual and is a bit puffy faced from all the fluid she's getting, but has yet to have any queasiness, perhaps due to the anti-nausea meds she's receiving, and consumed a big bowl of green-bean soup in front of us to prove it, is joking that she doesn't even need the wig yet, and announced we should head on out so she can have some peace & quiet.

May she continue just as spunkily and go on being spared side effects!

She even sympathized with me about my hand; admonished me for not having scrubbed every last trace of the surgical disinfectant paint from my hand, then accepted the explanation that I can't wash it freely and only today did the first home-change of bandages - a real hassle -but thereby had the opportunity to preserve photographically the stitchs for posterity.

Towit:

2 comments:

  1. well i've actually been toying with the idea of a complete blog overhaul. change of address, title, focus.

    but then i thought maybe i would do that once i got my acceptance letters back from grad school.

    but then i think all my discontent has to go somewhere, and the last month has been a doozy

    ps: thats a gnarly scar youre going to have. quick make up a story about an altercation with a pirate

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  2. The pirate concept is intriguing...
    Hmm..
    (And I wish you SOOOO many acceptance letters that you only have to discontent about picking among them...)

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