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For those of you wondering about my daughter's last trip to the hospital:
Her biopsy went fine. We met with the doctor a week later for the results; it was exactly what he'd expected. The short version: She will need a liver transplant at some point but not yet. There's no way to gauge when, but it could be several years away. I've decided not to worry about it until the time comes.
In the meantime, she does have various other medical procedures coming up, so that will keep us busy. I'm so glad that we live as close as we do to CHOP (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia).
I've been on a real reading jag lately. The latest (read it yesterday) was The Charioteer by Mary Renault. (She's the author of The Persian Boy.) This book is unusual for Renault since it isn't set in Ancient Greece but in WWII England. Loved it! Hated to put it down! I happened to have to go out for about an hour just when I'd reached the point where the main character, Laurie Odell, has to choose between the two men he loves--the suspense until I could pick up the book again nearly killed me.
Chapter Two of The Charioteer is set during Laurie's boarding school years--when I read it, I immediately thought, "This is going to plot bunny an R/S story."
I got online last night and saw on Ballyharnon's lj a request for a drabble plot bunny. I sent her one based very loosely on the above chapter. She did write it--you MUST go read this.
Her biopsy went fine. We met with the doctor a week later for the results; it was exactly what he'd expected. The short version: She will need a liver transplant at some point but not yet. There's no way to gauge when, but it could be several years away. I've decided not to worry about it until the time comes.
In the meantime, she does have various other medical procedures coming up, so that will keep us busy. I'm so glad that we live as close as we do to CHOP (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia).
I've been on a real reading jag lately. The latest (read it yesterday) was The Charioteer by Mary Renault. (She's the author of The Persian Boy.) This book is unusual for Renault since it isn't set in Ancient Greece but in WWII England. Loved it! Hated to put it down! I happened to have to go out for about an hour just when I'd reached the point where the main character, Laurie Odell, has to choose between the two men he loves--the suspense until I could pick up the book again nearly killed me.
Chapter Two of The Charioteer is set during Laurie's boarding school years--when I read it, I immediately thought, "This is going to plot bunny an R/S story."
I got online last night and saw on Ballyharnon's lj a request for a drabble plot bunny. I sent her one based very loosely on the above chapter. She did write it--you MUST go read this.