I guess I’ll keep posting here on open facebook, as it allows the girls’ friends to know what’s going on. So we got Sonny through his first chemo and Mik through her surgery. Mikaela met with the surgeon today to discuss the results. I couldn’t imagine any answer other than “We got it all and your lymph nodes are clear. Now all you have to do is a little radiation in a few weeks and you’ll be fine.” What mother can imagine anything else for her 30 year old daughter? But that’s not the way it’s gonna go. She has to have chemo as well, as there are some irregular cells showing up in her lymph nodes. As Mik pointed out, the good news is: it’s not like the old days where they had to remove lymph nodes in the arm pit and upper arm, which often resulted in chronic discomfort. Even so, tonight this Mama feels very lonely for her girl, so far away. I hope she can get home real soon, maybe somewhere between the two forms of treatment. And at least she is holding the winning hand at the poker table. So that helps when she can’t work. I swear that girl is channeling Boy Pineau! For those of you who didn’t know Boy, he was an entrepreneur, a card shark and a great humanitarian in his own quiet way. He was Sonny’s uncle and died of ALS a few years back. He was a big supporter of Mik and a lot of young people and is still missed. As for Sonny, he’s still charming the nurses. I notice every time I take him home from the hospital, he’s a little more spoiled. I really think he should do the breakfast dishes tomorrow. He did have one very bad night though, a couple of days after the chemo treatment. Like the worse case of the flu you could imagine, but it only lasted one night and the oncologist said we shouldn’t see a repeat of that. Thank Heaven for small blessings. Speaking of small blessings, we walk by the doors to the maternity ward and often see little babies, including our pharmacist’s newborn. It does your heart good to see the tiny little ones and all the smiles they generate. There are so many people at the QEH ‘in rough shape’, as Sonny calls it, and some of them are a lot crankier about it than Sonny(so far). Does it ever give you an even greater respect for nurses! And all the people, from cleaning staff to doctors to kitchen helpers to the 500 volunteers that make the QEH run. Islanders are great people, no matter what their quirks and faults and you really appreciate it at a time like this. Makes me want to do more to help out with the sick, once we get all this bullshit behind us. Oops...do I sound a little less Pollyanna-ish tonight? Yup. As Mik said, our family is due for some good news on the health front. And that’s a fact. So keep those prayers and healing happy thoughts coming, ok? Oh well, at least the dog’s healthy. Although he did throw up on the grass. But that’s only because Tracy overfed him. And Sonny and I bought him way too many chewies and treats on the way home from the hospital. God bless Ollie and little children. They make us smile.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 02:17:04 +0000
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