Harmonic Convergence

Every type of cancer has a different treatment schedule. It is very unusual to have treatment every day as Tim does. The nurses tell us that some days are very slow with very few patients. Then there are days like today when all the treatment schedules come together as a sort of grand harmonic convergence. Labs take forever, pharmacy takes forever and there aren't enough treatment rooms to go around. Tim is in a double room with another patient and I have been relegated to the most uncomfortable chair. So I have sought refuge in the lounge of the Women's Hospital.

Whew. This is the second time that I have typed all that. I enjoy posting from my phone, but it has it's drawbacks. Two finger typing on a touch screen is not the fastest way to type anything of any length. I also ran afoul of another "feature" of my phone. If you hold down the backspace key, it deletes your entire message. I was trying to back up several letters to correct a mistake and accidentally held the key a little too long. However, as I have plenty of time on my hands at the moment, retyping has killed a good twenty minutes.

We're supposed to get another three inches of snow tonight. I actually had to shovel the roof this morning. From the ground with a roof rake, so don't go thinking that I was climbing around on the roof. Just wading through a foot of snow with a thirty foot long rake, which was bad enough.

Hello, Goodbye

Today we said goodbye to Steven, who's been here for the past week. Many, many thanks to Steven for coming to help out. Many, many thanks to his family for letting him make his third trip to Chicago in as many months. Couldn't have done Christmas without you, Steve. Let me know what beer to buy to have on hand for your next trip.

We also said hello to Julie, Tim's stem-cell donor and sister. Julie will be here for almost two weeks. She has a whirlwind tour of the medical establishment scheduled for Tuesday, followed by a weekend of shots to encourage stem cell production, followed by harvesting next week on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The snow accumulation total was twelve inches. That's enough for awhile. We are looking forward to a high in the single digits later this week. Really missing our winter visit to Mom and Dad in sunny Florida. Maybe next year.

Guess What, It's Snowing!

Tim and I went to see the opthamalogist yesterday evening. He told us that Tim's cornea transplant was in good shape, just very dry. So he's adjusted Tim's medication schedule to help with that. What a relief!

Steve took Tim to the hospital today. So I had a normal afternoon at home with the boys. Brendan got to have a friend over. Theo got sole control of the HDTV upstairs. I got to do the laundry, make dinner and pay bills.

Tomorrow will be a busy day. Tim has chemo in Evanston in the morning and an appointment downtown in the late afternoon. Steve and the boys are going out for pizza, since Tim and I could be very late getting home. We've already talked to the chemo nurse about getting some extra anti-nausea medication to help with the drive. Hopefully, by that late in the afternoon, Northwestern will be all caught up and we won't have to wait too long. We won't hold our breath.

Oh, yeah, and there's very pretty, white, fluffy snow falling.