Joe Dragging - He said it was cold. Was up by 5:30. Charm and I met at the Boulder Store at 7:30. Charm brought us a big bag of her wonderful chocolate chip cookies. I was going to just leave them in the car for the trip, but I took them in to share with Joe. Charm drove so I could drink the berrylicious contrast. When I got it on my upper lip I asked, "Got barium?" We had a nice visit and got caught up on all the happenings lately. The meetings yesterday went well, she reported. It was a really pretty day all the way there and back. You could see while we got rain, the mountains got lots of new snow.
We went back to Sue's art show at the Fine Arts Center again so Charm could see it. Then over to the hospital. Got my arm punctured, and was sent right on in to the CT Scan. It never takes more than about 15 minutes. We got out by 10:30 and although we could have done some nice things today I said let's just go home. That way I had time to finish getting ready to go to Nevada. We ate lunch at the Chinese place in Pinedale.
After getting home I got the car loaded, and some dinner made - Cornish Pasties with mushroom gravy. Joe has plenty of food left to last him a while. I had made tacos and enchiladas, and a casserole he likes with hot Italian sausage and rice. I'm sure it will be the same as always that a lot of the stuff that's in the fridge will still be there when I get back. I had spent some time and ingenuity on trying to use up the food that was in the house. Made a cheesecake out of the dairy stuff that was needing to be used. It wasn't the most successful thing I've ever done though.
Judy B. from Oncology called after I got home and said the initial reading of today's CT scan is that it is that my liver is between "stable" and "shows some improvement since the last one". That means not worse and looks like the liver tumors are smaller. No mention of the pancreatic tumor. That is probably all I will hear until I go to the next doctor appointment after I get back and by then I will have had another scan.
Well, then I don't know what went wrong, but when Judy the head of oncology tried to make the arrangements and fax my records etc. to Nevada Cancer Institute which Debbie had said would take me, they said they don't do that. So Judy got other phone numbers and has made my appointment at the Nevada Cancer Center. She is setting up two treatments there. I figured I could cancel the second one if I want to come back home and have it at Jackson. I am supposed to call Judy on Friday and call the Nevada Cancer Center on Monday. http://www.nevadacancercenter.com/ It's took about 6 phone calls back and forth so far so hope its all going to work right. A good thing is that it is very close to Debbie's house.
Betty called so we're all up to date for me probably arriving at her place tomorrow night. If I get tired I've promised everyone I will stop at a motel and get there the next day. Remember Dr. Meno prescribed a pill in the morning to keep me awake, and hope it works o.k.
I'm about exhausted tonight. Have a few small things left to do, and then will be in bed.
I'll keep blogging and let you know each day's adventures. And will get my email on my laptop. If you write to me I can click "reply", since I don't have "address book" when I go to the hughes.net email page.
"The world," said Robert Louis Stevenson, "is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." - This was one of the first verses I ever learned. Whatever we were doing I always said, the Queen couldn't be any happier than this.
