3 Wonderfull days in a row!
3 days – no day hospital, lab or infusions – except the twice a day IV meropenum at home
3 days – Teri goes out
3 days – Teri has vim, vigor, sings, rediscovers her joie de vivre
“I had a wonderful day” she says when asked what her main message is tonight. I’m eating wonderful food made by Grace. She expresses genuine exuberance at being alive and relatively pain free. Grace and she are in sync and she knows all of Teri’s routines and foods – congee or won ton soup, fresh watermelon juice, blended protein-fresh fruit shakes (freezes aliquots) – and Grace decides to spend an additional week. Grace made “dropped” panko chicken last week. This week she blended “dropped” protein shake, what a sticky mess. She’s dropping food like flies – mixed up metaphors.
Edema and ascites persist, renal bleeding continues, intentional tremulousness and bladder spasms tingle but she’s looking beyond…
Teri bought an iPad2 and is enthralled with this little computing device or enlarged iPhone however you look at it. She attended a session on how to use it at the Apple store and is also helped by niece Grace who also just got one. She ate out. Some children and adults stared at her. She said “I don’t care!” She went to the mall mostly pushed about in her mobile walker. She invited company – Grace’s close friends – and actually cooked one dish, sweet and sour ribs.
She is returning to woman in charge.
B: “You should wear slippers or sandals to protect your swollen feet.”
T: “I’m OK in my [hospital] stockings.”
G: “I agree with uncle B, it would be better to protect your feet.”
T: “I’ve made up my mind, I’m walking in my stockings!”
T: “Take these metal clips back to work. I don’t want them on my bags, they are too hard to open.”
B: “I’ll put them on my bag of chips.”
T: “I don’t want them in my drawers!”
It was a gorgeous weekend, sunny and in the upper 70’s, light wind. I rode 38 miles at an average of 17.86 mph. Exercise is still my only healthful and mindful space besides Tai chi.
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