Opposite Day with Erin

Yesterday was my birthday so I gave myself the day off from blogging. So there. Actually, I've been tired, and this week seemed to last forever, so I haven't had much energy to post. I had a wonderful birthday and spent the evening with my sibs and their spouses, except for Jay and family, and Lisa made a yummy carrot cake, and I was spoiled rotten by their incredibly generous gifts.

On Wednesday, I thought I had my head situated in the pillow perfectly, but the therapist kept telling me to scoot up a tiny bit. I don't think I succeeded and so the mask was tight. But it must not have bothered me too much because I almost fell asleep!

Today, for reasons I won't bother to get into, my niece Erin drove us to the center. She's a very good driver by the way. We got there kind of early and I noticed when I signed in to the computer the time for my appointment had changed from 10:45 to 11:00, so I knew they must have been running behind.

A woman in the waiting room, a breast cancer patient, had a little girl with her. I guess she was there the day before too but I didn't see her, mom did. Anyway, it is hard to see that someone who has a little girl with her is going through cancer. This little girl was so well behaved, she just sat there in her chair quiet as can be, and she looked like a little doll... just adorable and perfect in her little dress with her curly black hair in a headband.

I asked Erin if she wanted to come back and see how they do everything. I don't know if she really wanted to but she must have seen that I really wanted her too. I tried to enticed her by telling her that there are good looking guys back there... which was funny because I didn't see any of the regular girls back there at all today only the guys. I also thought it could be a field trip type of thing.

Today was like opposite day. I had to use the other room today. He said they were running behind in my usual room. So everything is on the opposite side, and it is hard to go from doing everything one way and now having to do it the opposite. Just a little weird.

It's pretty cool to have someone besides myself to see what it's all about, so thanks Erin for sharing the experience with me today.

I am not sure really what she thought of it... you have to quiz her about things because she's not a big talker ;) But we have a lot of laughs together.

Afterward I got her lunch at LeeAnn Chin, one of our favorite places to eat! Then later we tried to Skype with Allie but she wasn't online. Another reason it was opposite day... on the webcam we were both agreeing that we hated how when you look at yourself on the webcam everything is opposite. You try to fix your hair and you end up messing up the side that didn't need fixing, etc. But smarty-pants Erin figured out how to change that so now everything is right with the world.

(BTW, I am able to Skype because my brother Larry and his family got me the webcam for my birthday - thanks you guys!)