Full Time Job

Nik's surgery was postponed until Tuesday--hoping they don't postpone it again. You would think they would realize that his family has to schedule taking off of work and arranging for someone to watch the other kids while his mom and dad are there at the hospital. It's not like major surgery is an appointment to get your teeth cleaned or something easily rescheduled. Oh well... just want it over with and for him to be okay.

We had two doctor appointments again today, so I took Mom out to her eye appointment with Dr. Rice, which she had scheduled for months, and then had to go back out to the Cancer Center across the street three hours later. It's a full time job, I tell ya.

Today's session was at 6:00 PM and they took me in almost right after I arrived, at 5:45 or so. Hey, I need about five minutes to mentally prepare myself for The Mask!

I was thinking my head had grown over the weekend because again The Mask felt super tight. When will I get used to this thing? You would think after having it on four times for fifteen minutes minimum, each time, I would be getting used to it. At least I took my deep breaths before they snapped it down this time.

They sent me to the other room today. There are two different rooms. I had been going into the one on the right. When I went in 2007 I had always gone in the one on the left... so it was deja vu today. I noticed it was cooler in this room. The tech said that he agreed and he talked to the manager and mentioned that the other room was too hot later in the day, and maybe it was because they didn't usually schedule late appointments for that room so the air conditioner might have been turning off at an earlier time. I hope that's the case and next time I go into the room on the right it is cooler.

I've been having some pain in my left arm and shoulder and that side of my neck. I don't think it's psychosomatic since I have noticed it before, and come to think of it, there were times before I found the lump that I felt pain there. It's not a sharp pain but more of a dull ache... the kind you might get if you hold something for a long period of time and you then put it down because you can't stand to hold it any longer because it hurts to. Does that make sense? But really, nothing too terrible to complain about that's for sure.

I am really enjoying the weather and though I don't really love having to drive so much, I am enjoying the beautiful trees with all the leaves and all the wonderful flowers people plant in the city.