Well what a busy week I've had. Chris required surgery for his indirect inguinal hernia, so I hopped in the car and drove to Houston, dogs and all. Jay had flown in so he beat me there, so Chris had someone to hold his hand prior; I arrived after. I discovered then that he had quit his job—15 hour days driving 2500 miles a week for what netted out to be 5.00 an hour: it just wasn't paying the bills. I had wondered how long it was going to take them to part ways, it was a great first job, but not somewhere you'd want to spend the rest of your life.

But he is resting at home, and the only thing I worry about is depression, he seems so fragile in his emotional state. He did seem better yesterday; h called to tell me the Lone Gunmen had all been killed on the X-Files! I forgot to watch it, and drats. Maybe in re-runs.

I had to cut my hair. Long huge hanks of hair were coming out, and it was tangling so badly that I couldn’t' even comb or brush it. The first thing I saw when I caught my reflection in the mirror was "Oh My God I'm my mother!" LOL Scary thought in a lot of ways. When I was in Houston, I stayed at Nancy's house- I couldn't bear to stay at they Animal House, even thought there was an empty bed, so I had breakfast with Nancy and Jenna both mornings. Jenna allowed as how she thought it was going to be ok if I had to cut my hair as she thought it looked cute when it was short. Thank you Jenna, I needed that! At any rate, I got a lock of it in an envelope for the scrapbook, and here are some pictures from April 6, the wedding reception for the CEO held at the office in Little Rock.

I had to come back on Friday, as I was already 2 days late for lab work, but I discovered they are open on Saturday. I went in, and got a chance to thoroughly study my chart and the previous lab results. Everything is out of whack, naturally. I have copies of most of it o there wasn’t anything that surprised m except the correspondence. Dr. Nair has been sending out update letters to Dr. Wijewardarne, and copying in various Gastroenterologist, Dr. Garner, etc. I'm the very pleasant lady from Texas with upper right quadrant pain, if anyone asks.

And, still I wait for an appointment with the gynecological oncologist surgeon. I had one with Ramon for the 23rd, but he was out of network on my insurance, and the cost was way too high, the stop loss was 5,000 higher and the co-pay was 20% higher—on hundred of thousands of dollars for surgery, I think that it was unsupportable. Dr. Ramon's office did recommend a former professor of OG that was in private practice at Baptist. He's in the phone book, so I recognized the name, Dr. Bard. Dr. Garners' office is the one to refer me, and Beth was going to check and make sure that was acceptable to Garner, then make me an appointment. So, I'm back to waiting. I hope I don’t miss my window of opportunity after this chemo and have to wait three more weeks! For me personally, I hate the waiting. For me at work it would be fabulous. I'm having a hard time finishing up the projects I need to before I take an extended leave of absence.

I got some new books, a listsib had recommended a series by CS Friedman, and I am so looking forward to that. I got another in the Nick Seafort saga, the 2nd in the Honor Harrington series (the only one I could find, I need #1!) and a replacement copy of the first SF book I ever read, Corridors of Time by Poul Anderson. He passed away last year, and I was so sad, he had been such a pillar and landmark for me. I have a ton of books on tape, Jay suggested I put them all on CD. Huh, go figure. Never occurred to me. I'll have to put that little project on hold; I'm never going to finish the ones I have already!