Archive for March, 2007
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
It Was a Very Long Day
Every time I have started to write this story the Gilligan’s Island theme starts running through my head, “A two hour tour,” won’t stop looping around and around. What started out as a simple twenty minute procedure . . . We were planning to stop for a late lunch on the way home from the [...]
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Almost
Yesterday was a very long day. The story is just as long.
I write more easily when I put pen to paper. Fingers to keyboard just doesn’t get the story told as well. The story is written. Tomorrow, I’ll type.
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
A Very Long Day
We are accustomed to playing musical chairs with anesthesiologists. Before I got my first bite of breakfast, we were playing musical chairs with surgeons. Yes, we swapped out anesthesiologists. Lew’s surgery was delayed. Lew’s ultra thin body created a problem we had never given a thought to. I got left alone in the waiting room [...]
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
Pre-Surgery
That’s it! I’m calling Dateline NBC! Pet-her-philes everywhere we turned. It started with the staff leaning over the counter to gawk at Dr. Lymph Node Surgeon’s office. We were surrounded and couldn’t move in Admitting at the hospital. Then a tiny little girl (who politely asked Lew if she could pet Marley), then a Gray [...]
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Here We Go Again
Three appointments on Monday — Dr. Lymph Node Surgeon, Dr. Chemo, and Dr. Anesthesiologist #6. I took an aspirin and canceled my dentist appointment.
Seventeen thousand phone calls later . . . Surgery is scheduled for Tuesday.
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
Was Today Saturday?
Today was Saturday. Tomorrow will feel like Sunday. Two days without doctor appointments — it has to be the weekend.
Except for the phone calls. We have an appointment with Dr. Lymph Node Surgeon on Monday. Lew told me to say we had other plans — I had a dentist appointment scheduled for Monday. Like I’m [...]
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
No Chemo Tomorrow
Lew’s cancer antibodies are continuing to rise. The chemotherapy isn’t working as fast as the cancer is growing. Chemo treatments are being put on hold until the lymph node above his left collar bone can be biopsied. Its very close to the surface, so it should be a nothing procedure to take it out.