Thanks to help from Laurie, the gifts are all wrapped, I have a tortiere in the freezer for Christmas Eve with the kids, the tree is up (at least until I go to bed and the cats take it down. Again.)and the house is in relatively good order. I think I'm ready.
The PICC (not spelled with "Q"!) went in today. Relatively uneventful procedure but it has left me with a swollen and rather irritated left arm - which is covered pink from my elbow to my shoulder. At least they provided me with a sleeve so that I can still take showers and it is moderately less disgusting than the drain. Can you believe that they put almost half a meter of tubing into me? 44 cm (just over 17 inches) of little blue stuff all the way to the other side of my heart from my left arm! Truly incredible. I only got nervous when they told me they were taking ultra sound of my neck to make sure the tube didn't take a left at Albuquerque (a la Bugs Bunny). That weirded me out.
Mom dropped off a beautiful quilt today that will help to keep me warm tomorrow and all the sessions following. Thanks to Elaine, Daphne and Alice for working on it with mother. It is very beautiful and bright and warm and I know that I will be very thankful to have it with me. Also going to chemo tomorrow are LA's crazy cancer socks and all the good karma that you have all sent my way. Apparently I can bring in my laptop so if they have the wireless running I'll try to post from there.
Needing sleep now in prep for the big day. Love to everyone. See you on the other side:)
Hereby sending much good energy to you xo
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