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December 30, 2004
Good News Tuesday (and the other days too)
Now one would think that because there is no school this week, and therefore I do not have to work, I would have the time to be able to update this on a daily basis as I do when I go to work. For some reason, other things come up and there is not enough time to update and let y'all know what's going on. Some of that is probably my own fault for agreeing to do things that I would normally not do during the week.
So on Tuesday morning as I was getting ready to head out the door on my run the phone rang. My mom picked it up and it turns out it was her surgeon calling to let her know what had come back from the lab. He told her not to expect to hear anything until Wednesday at the earliest, probably later in the week due to the holidays. He told her that the cancer had only spread a little bit into the first node, the sentinel node, and had not spread to any of the other nodes. He told her the tumor was larger than it had looked on the mamogram, but he had gotten most of it in the biopsy. Basically he told her that this was the best news she could have other than it not being cancerous. This news pretty much set the tone for the rest of the day. My run was fantastic compared to other runs, probably because I was in such a good mood. It was cold, but not as windy as Monday.
We spent most of the day waiting for my brother and his girlfriend to arrive. They had originally planned to pick up the rental car at 11 and get here a little bit after 1. We knew that wasn't going to happen when he called at quarter to one and his girlfriend was in the shower. Then they apparently had some trouble at the rental agency, the car they were supposed to get had not been returned yet and they finally agreed to pay for an upgrade. Then they stopped on the way and ate. Of course, we were all hungry and I had prepared chicken, risotto, and green beans. P chowed down because he doesn't get home cooked meals all that often, but his girlfriend just picked at a bite of risotto and a nibble of chicken. Since they weren't eating much, I felt like a pig eating, but in reality I did not eat very much at all.
This leads into the lousy run on Wednesday morning. Lousy with a capital L. It wasn't as cold as we're having an unusually warm end of year. Our neighbor accross the street came over to visit my mom and we ate lunch with her. Somehow I got invited over to their house for a dinner party last night. I spent the day at the mall searching for something to wear to a wedding in a few weeks. That was a big strike out, but at least there are a few weeks left. Everything that I liked was absolutely hanging off of me.
T had two couples over for dinner, myself, her daughter and a friend of her daughter's. She made two pounds of spagetti and meatballs for everyone. We all enjoyed lotsa pasta and red wine. It was not as enjoyable this morning while I ran with J and his older brother.
This morning it was much warmer when I ran with J and his brother. We had a nice relaxing run. Burping up homemade sauce and red wine is not my idea of fun. Luckily, we were just running very easy and chatting. Trying to push through a run when my stomach is acting that way is not my idea of fun. J gave me a training log as a New Year's gift. He doesn't trust me to train, so I have to keep a log for myself and a log for him. He doesn't realize that I've been slacking on keeping my log.
I'm going to look for an outfit to wear to the wedding later on this afternoon. Then I'm taking my mother on a field trip. She hasn't been out of the house since last week, so I'm taking her to Target and Trader Joe's this afternoon. She wants to get a new book to read and look at DVDs and I need to get food from Trader Joe's. Then we're going to visit her mother since the nursing home is on our way back to the house. Hopefully tonight is going to be a chillin out in front of the TV night. New Year's Eve looks like either going to a friend's house or accross the street. It can't be too wild and crazy a night since we have our 7 AM Saturday run! The contest is to see who is still drunk for the run!
Posted by Blondie at December 30, 2004 11:22 AM
Comments
Glad to hear of the good news in your family! Here's hoping that your New Year's is fun but not too wild! Meghan
Posted by: Meghan at December 30, 2004 07:20 PM
Glad to hear the good news about your Mom. Hope you have a nice time tonight! - Mary
Posted by: Mary at December 31, 2004 12:28 PM
I'm so happy to hear the good news about your mom. I hope you get lots more of it in 2005!
-Jessie
Posted by: Jessie at January 2, 2005 05:17 PM
Glad to hear about the good news!
Your plan for 2005 sounds great, good luck and I am looking forward to reading all about it. I want to do broad street some time and if I can come out for it we will have to hang.
Posted by: barb at January 3, 2005 03:14 PM