Good Morning

It’s so nice to have a morning where we don’t have to run out for fun or doctors…just hanging and getting caught up on things.

I had a PS to add last night, but I was just too spent. So here is an a.m. PS…

Rudy…Rudy is recovering nicely. She clearly is a trooper and since this got so bad without her complaining she certainly has a high threshold for pain, so we are giving her the doggie ibuprofen whether she asks for it or not. Mike called this morning to find out the results and they did not have it yet. 

Michael and Eva…have been awesome! cooking and cooking, cleaning and running errands. Here are some of the things they’ve done, individually or as a team: cleaned Betty’s gutters, cleaned the kitchen (more than onece!) weeded a huge patch in our front yard and then covered it in mulch from our neighbors back yard (thank you Vince and Lizzie), cleaned the deck, watered the gardens, cut down blackberry bushes, fixed the lights in the laundry room, broke down boxes for recycle, cooked and cleaned and went to the grocery store again and again and cooked some more. And most importantly, they both make me laugh, a lot! Such funny kiddos…I thank you both!

Eva had to leave yesterday morning (we miss you Eva) and Michael is staying a few more days, at least till Betty gets back on Saturday.

Such good kids! And, I’m looking forward to Maggie joining the team when she gets back from Europe. We miss her so, but her pictures and messages make me so very happy! I’m so relieved she gets at least 1/2 of her trip.

Magic Mineral Broth is awesome. When my first wave of nausea came over me yesterday evening it was perfect!!!! Warm and soothing and made with love. I had some nut crackers on the side, had to soak them a bit… too crunchy. Michael does not want me to call them nut crackers for some reason…funny boy!!

Side Effects…

The only problem I had last night at bed time, other than generally feeling a little funky, was the site of the port. It just plain hurt. They cut me open in 2 spots put a titanium port inside me and fed a tube down my jugular…hell yes, it hurts! I cannot ice it because of my sensitivity to cold. So I called the doc to get the ok on Tylenol and was able to take some. I think it helped.

But the weirdest thing is the cold, I can hardly touch anything and I need any water warmed up. Cold surfaces (a cup, a plate, the counter, the iPad) just send tingles up my fingers and it spreads across fingers I didn’t even use. So weird. It passes quickly and is not really painful, but I guess if grabbed something out of the freezer it could be pretty bad. Today I thought maybe this is where the superpower “to freeze things” came from!! So many of my girls choose that super power this spring when we were surveying “What super power would you want?” No I don’t want to be invisible, or super strong or fly…really??? I just want to be able to freeze things…thanks Disney!

The other weird thing is food texture. I cannot crunch on my back teeth. It sends weird reverberations through my jaw. So little bites of warm soft food…or tiny bits of other things, seem to be working. I’m drinking lots of tea because water out of the tap is freaky in my throat. But I still have my hair and i’m not feeling nauseous…so that is all good!

Time to get ready for the social worker and then our 2nd opinion at the Polyclinic. Wish us luck!

OK, disclosure…I am finding that I get great pleasure out of writing this blog. I do not expect anyone to read it, at least not all of my babble. You can look at how long an entry is, maybe skim it a bit..yea, she is doing ok and move on to the rest of the cyber or better yet, the real world…this is really for me, it is therapeutic and fun. And I’m happy to share with you!!