The Road Home

Okay, I'd intended to write a post following Deb's check-in appointment on Monday, but things got a bit hectic with packing for travel on Tuesday, my own medical appointment late that afternoon, and various other last minutes stuff.  In other words; I didn't write anything but I don't feel too bad about it.

I also didn't write anything yesterday, but we spent most of the day traveling and without wifi, so I really don't feel bad about that at all.

Now it's Wednesday, so here I am.

Deb's soreness following her revision surgery has been improving, but it has also continued.  The nurse at Dr. Paige's office, Louise (more on her later) looked Deb over and seemed pleased, so as you can guess, air travel was allowed to get back to Knoxville.  She is still restricted from air travel for four weeks, though, in part because I won't be there to carry stuff and lift stuff and et cetera.  She will still travel some, though it will only be by car for a little while (such as a scheduled trip to Atlanta next week).

The bandages have been progressively staying cleaner as well (I won't throw too much detail out there about that) to the point that she went today (for the first time) without bandages over the two points not covered by SteriTape.  Her post-surgical bruising has improved dramatically as well.  She no longer looks like she was at a stick fight dressed as a piñata (her analogy, not mine).

We were headed out to dinner with our friends who actually live at the building we were staying in for the last half of our trip (we were in the guest suite) when a lady came in the door that looked a little familiar.  I'd just figured it out when she did a double take at me.  It was Deb's nurse, Louise, who apparently lives in that same condo building.  Deb joked that if we'd known, we could have just had her stop by the guest suite on her way home instead of us taking Uber up to their office.  Small world.

Our travel day started yesterday at around 05:00 when a car picked us up and took us to the airport in Seattle (actually just south of Seattle).  We then flew to Nashville and picked up the car we had left at the Embassy Suites there (with their knowledge and permission, of course) and drove back to Knoxville - with a stop in Cookeville along the way - where we are currently staying in a downtown hotel until we close on a house on Friday, 3/31.

So the last thing is that Deb had her first infusion this morning without the benefit of having a port, but she only has one more infusion remaining so I think that having it removed last week during the rest of the revision surgery was the best possible timing (so she doesn't have to be put under anesthesia yet again to have it removed later).

One final follow-up appointment with Dr. Paige remains, and that's in mid-July.  I hope not to have anything to report between now and then, nor anything afterward.  Nor ever again.  Cancer has really put us through the wringer this last fourteen months, as  it did eight years ago for around six or eight months.



Dear Cancer, Deb has had enough.  Go kill off some mosquitoes or something for a change. Thanks, George