Monday Evening

Hi

Most of you have noticed that Stephen may not have much of an update about Anne posted yet.  I think he is working on his post while I do this one.  The trip was a bit disappointing for her as she didn't learn as much as she had hoped but what she did learn will be posted by Stephen soon.

I did manage today to put my doctor on the spot more than I mentioned earlier but am having trouble figuring out how to say it.

Essentially he admitted that my blood tests were not showing enough improvement for Kingston to do anything to improve my comforts much.  I'll go home with a pain med pump and a nausea med pump as well as a rehydrate IV but there is not much chance that they can do anything else to help me other than wait and adjust the med levels when necessary.  So, basically, they are sending me home to die.

I'm cool enough with that as there had not been any real hope of recovery for some time, so I'm content to "get 'er done" or at least let it happen.  I'm not doing anything to speed it up.

As for timing, they don't know of course and are reluctant to guess but I won't likely be longer than several weeks and I won't be out and about much in the meantime.  We are trying to arrange a ride on Cal's motorcycle as a bucket list item but not sure we can do that.

Speaking of Cal - he is wonderful!!

In the meantime I get all kinds of offers of what people can do to help but honestly cannot think of much.  Most food does not appeal.

You are all wonderful and we do thank you for all your offers of help.

Thanks to my brother-in-law Dan for getting and funding the Internet dongle and to nephews James and Brandon for delivering it.

ps When you put a comment on the blog it gets emailed to me too.  Also, if you are logged in to any google account it will display your name instead of making the comment anonymous.  If you are not a google user, it would help if you sign your comments.

Cheers