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Do you have any?
Thanks.
- Location:my office
- Mood:
busy
On July 4th, Debbie got the results of a spinal tap that showed cancer cells in her spinal fluid. She was diagnosed with carcinoma meningitis.
While my sister seems to be reacting positively to the radiation she is receiving, her husband was told today that there is no cure and that the radiation is only treating Debbie to give her some more time. Her condition is terminal and with the aggressiveness of the cancer, she probably only has a few weeks to live. While it's possible she could live longer, she will not survive another year.
My sister has been fighting diseases and medical problems all of her life. I am just devastated to hear out loud that this is a fight she can't win. I cannot imagine what my life will be like without her.
Ok. She's not on a good schedule, whatever. We'll go in, she'll get her cavity taken care of, set up a normal cleaning schedule and be on our merry way. Right?
So I watch as she goes into the office. As I'm sitting in the waiting room, I can see her getting the x-rays through the glass into the office. I'm waiting. And waiting. And waiting. I'm watching as people come into the office, go in and have x-rays and then a little later come out. Meanwhile, I'm still waiting. I was wondering if they did indeed find a cavity and were filling it without asking me.
Um. No.
Kim was correct in that she has a cavity. It was the other 8 cavities that she wasn't aware of.
Yes. The kid has 9 cavities + 3 to 4 teeth that were marked in the x-ray as black, meaning they're probably going to be cavities. Oh and she needs some molars sealed because they're in danger of getting cavities, as well. They think the sealing is capped at age 15 so we're going to be paying for that out of pocket most likely.
When we were coming out, they gave her a toothbrush and dental floss. I told her that was because they didn't think she had any of her own.
Ugh.
All I can say is that either she brushes her teeth with sugar and rinses with soda or her last dentist's appointment was only a cleaning and did not have any x-rays because I can't even imagine what one person would have to do to get 9 cavities in under 2 years. The kid even brushes her teeth, too, usually twice a day. She doesn't do such a great or thorough job, but still, 9 cavities????
Again, ugh.
- Location:my office
I'm just waiting for the hubby to finish showering and we'll finally be able to make our way out of the house to go have some fun. Happy, happy!!
- Location:living room
- Mood:
happy
- I went clothes shopping last night for non-work clothes. We have a Fashion Bug right up by our grocery store and I just love it. They always have my size, unlike some places like Lane Bryant where they usually have the size below mine and then the rest of the clothes on the rack are usually 3-4 sizes above mine, not to mention that LB is usually expensive for the clothes I do want and most of them I don't really like all that much. Fashion Bug is awesome.
- 4-day weekend! I took off Monday because I figured most people would take today off. It's like a 5-day weekend for me, practically. Plus, my office usually lets us out early the day before a holiday.
- New-New-New HVAC guy stopping by at noon today.
- I get almost daily text messages from my step-daughter about things like "Hey, I invited my friend Amanda to the mall!" and "I remember our zip code!" It's incredibly adorable. Of course, she's exceeding her 250 a month so I may need to opt for more.
- Day is at least 1/2 way over. Hooray!
- Location:my office
- Mood:
restless
The hospital will arrange for her radiation as long as she's there.
She got out of the hospital yesterday and now she's nauseous and vomiting again. My BIL called the hospital and is waiting to hear if this is something he should bring her in for. Her response? "No." No matter what the doctors say, she is refusing to go back to the hospital.
I tried to talk some sense into her but she isn't saying much other than "No."
Now, this may be something as simple as her needing more steroids to combat the brain swelling. Still, though, the general attitude of refusing to go back no matter what is a Big Problem.
I'd sedate her and carry her myself if I didn't think it might cause more problems.
UGH. She is just like our mother and it's bugging the sh*t out of me!!!
- Location:my office
- Mood:
aggravated
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We planned for Kim to take her written test today for her driving permit. She passed the test in NJ on the second try and pretty much forgot most everything in the meantime. She's a PITA when it comes to studying but I told her no one would take her up there if she didn't study so she put minimal effort into it. I set her up with an online test to prove to her that she didn't know as much as she thought she did. That took away some of her leverage for not studying since obviously she needed to. Steve went through the entire manual and quizzed her on most everything, then explained it all to her so she wasn't just memorizing it.
So.... yay, she passed the test! (God help us, why did we want her to do this again???) Anyway, now starts her 6-month clock. She's supposed to get in 50 hours of behind the wheel time and we have to find a driving school to send her to before she can get her license.
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Work sucks.
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Since our spontaneous OMG-We're-Having-A-Party-Memorial Day party seemed to be a hit, we're planning a Labor Day weekend party. It'll be the Saturday before Labor Day and go till whenever. We'll probably make it a sleepover for Kim's friends and whoever else needs it.
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Heading home for lunch and to make sure the kid eats something besides potato chips before dinnertime.
- Location:my office
- Mood:
exhausted
Entire new AC system getting installed on Saturday.
Cost = $1800
Woohoo!
- Location:living room
- Mood: pleased
As for the rest of the time, we drove Kim over to her mom's house so we could give a late birthday present to her 11YO sister. Kim did not want to go. Poor kid. I hope the weekend went better than she was dreading it would. How it goes is going to have a long-term impact on her relationship with her mom. I, on the other hand, am counting down the days until she turns 18 and she is free to make her own decisions (503).
Other than that, I feel like I got very little done. I think I need quite a few 5-day weekends just to catch up on what I seem to miss getting done during my 2-day weekends.
- Location:my office
- Mood: exhausted
I will try to remain hopeful because someone has to do it.
- Location:living room
- Mood: sad
There are a few tumors they have to go in now and remove. It sounds like they're all on the outside of the brain, which is good, at least. In a Duh doctor moment, they declared my sister's cancer "aggressive."
The plan is for surgery either late in the day tomorrow or sometime on Monday, wait 10 days to heal and then rush off to radiation. The surgeon seems confident that radiation will work wonders because breast cancer is very responsive to radiation. We just have to make sure we can get her through those 10 days with nothing else showing up to get in the way.
- Location:my office
- Mood: worried
My sister is back in the hospital. She had some brain swelling and nausea that they thought was a result of stepping her down on her steroids too quickly.
After an MRI, though, the neurologists are suggesting that there may be more brain tumors. They'll do a more thorough review tomorrow morning.
I just don't understand how these keep coming back so quickly. She's had two surgeries already and just had the staples removed after her second surgery. I really don't know how much more one person can take.
- Location:bedroom
- Mood: worried
+ Today is Kim's last day of finals and tomorrow is her last day of school. Hallelujah. I can't wait to sleep in again. I especially can't wait until I don't have to direct someone to get ready every morning. An hour is a long time to get ready in the morning and I don't need anywhere near that for myself.
- Getting her up and ready for school by myself is a royal PITA.
- Tonight is going to be busy.
+ Tennis for Kim.
+ Shopping for a few minor things for her weekend Girl Scout camping trip.
+ AC guy is supposed to come out again tonight. Don't ask.
- - - We still have no AC. It was fixed for almost 24 hours and broke again. Wah. I'm tired and wussy! Give me my AC!
- Not enough time to enjoy my evening.
- Tomorrow, instead of going out to lunch with coworkers, I need to take a late lunch to head Kim off to Philadelphia to meet up with her troop for the camping trip. Why are all of these types of events so inconvenient for parents who work? Tennis is at 5:30 so I need to leave a little early even for that.
+ Tomorrow is Friday so at least that's good, right?
- Mood: irritated
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