What a difference a week makes! Everything seems to be breaking my way!
Mom is home from the hospital, and feeling better. The house is a mess, but she doesn't care. Next week she'll be visiting doctors for two days, but driving in is better than being trapped in a hospital bed. She still has hoses and such strapped to her, so the dogs need to adore her from the foot of the bed, or put their chins on the arm rest of her chair, but they learned the rules fairly quickly, considering they had incompetant trainers.
My big girl is off to Maryland for a week with her team (a relaxing vacation of running at 5 am and putting in an 8 hour day of rowing, then another 4 hours of preparing for competition - I suppose it will sort out which girls who don't enjoy rowing). My baby girl is proving to be a very good nurse. She is dispensing medications and nutrition and hydration like a pro, logging everything and taking care of the dogs and her homework, too. (Hard to forget she is 15 when she is acting so cool under pressure. She even yelled at her Nana for taking the stairs when we were not home to help. It takes backbone to tell old-battle-ax Nurse Nana that she is acting foolishly.)
So we are all overtired but happy, except maybe the dogs who want longer walks and more attention from the invalid. They'll need to leave her some space for another little while and amuse each other. The good news is that it looks like no rush to start radiation or chemo. She'll heal up from the surgery and then they'll decide what she needs. Maybe nothing else :)
I have my grad school class approved at work! Now all I need to do is get through the waiting list, and get up to speed in Apple operating systems so I can keep up with the kiddies. I'm going to learn how to code iPhone aps! I feel younger just saying it, like "The Cloud." Two more months, and with luck I'll be a student again! Only three people have to drop and I'll be in! I don't wish for lottery wins this hard. I hope the kids in front of me on the waiting list get trips to Europe, or National Science Foundation grants, or something wonderful that makes the choice to skip summer school really easy for them. I really want this course!
I'm planning the Camino de Santiago a little more seriously now. I expect that we will not finish the whole trip in the time I have, because I want to bring everyone now. We can park my mother and my baby on a boat for a week and the big girl and I can hike for a week, and then we can meet again in France or Germany or Switzerland or Italy. Wherever my mother wants to go. We've been watching the Viking River cruise ads on PBS and she thinks she could stand that. She just needs to pick an itinerary. They all look great - a Christmas week floating down the Danube, or Spring watching the flowers bloom in Holland or Giverney. No need to rush from one place to the other - just stay in the floating hotel and let the towns come to you. Anyway, studying my geography now (and letting the hounds take me out for an extra couple miles tomorrow. It's almost Marathon Monday - I'll be in the mood.)
My big girl is off to Maryland for a week with her team (a relaxing vacation of running at 5 am and putting in an 8 hour day of rowing, then another 4 hours of preparing for competition - I suppose it will sort out which girls who don't enjoy rowing). My baby girl is proving to be a very good nurse. She is dispensing medications and nutrition and hydration like a pro, logging everything and taking care of the dogs and her homework, too. (Hard to forget she is 15 when she is acting so cool under pressure. She even yelled at her Nana for taking the stairs when we were not home to help. It takes backbone to tell old-battle-ax Nurse Nana that she is acting foolishly.)
So we are all overtired but happy, except maybe the dogs who want longer walks and more attention from the invalid. They'll need to leave her some space for another little while and amuse each other. The good news is that it looks like no rush to start radiation or chemo. She'll heal up from the surgery and then they'll decide what she needs. Maybe nothing else :)
I have my grad school class approved at work! Now all I need to do is get through the waiting list, and get up to speed in Apple operating systems so I can keep up with the kiddies. I'm going to learn how to code iPhone aps! I feel younger just saying it, like "The Cloud." Two more months, and with luck I'll be a student again! Only three people have to drop and I'll be in! I don't wish for lottery wins this hard. I hope the kids in front of me on the waiting list get trips to Europe, or National Science Foundation grants, or something wonderful that makes the choice to skip summer school really easy for them. I really want this course!
I'm planning the Camino de Santiago a little more seriously now. I expect that we will not finish the whole trip in the time I have, because I want to bring everyone now. We can park my mother and my baby on a boat for a week and the big girl and I can hike for a week, and then we can meet again in France or Germany or Switzerland or Italy. Wherever my mother wants to go. We've been watching the Viking River cruise ads on PBS and she thinks she could stand that. She just needs to pick an itinerary. They all look great - a Christmas week floating down the Danube, or Spring watching the flowers bloom in Holland or Giverney. No need to rush from one place to the other - just stay in the floating hotel and let the towns come to you. Anyway, studying my geography now (and letting the hounds take me out for an extra couple miles tomorrow. It's almost Marathon Monday - I'll be in the mood.)