Getting ready...

I called the ENT's office yesterday for a note regarding my treatment for the acid reflux-related cough. Ed has visions of me being pulled out of line for our flight because the over-anxious officials might think I have swine flu -- oh, sorry, it's now called H1N1. He apparently has dictated a note, which I hope to have faxed to me so I don't have to go to Shrewsbury on Monday to pick it up. Won't I be busy helping Ed choose his clothes on Monday?!!

After my bout with nausea on Wednesday, I'm feeling better although the sciatica is still a problem. I'm not supposed to take too much ibuprofen while I'm on chemo, but it's the only thing that relieves the pain, which is sometimes shooting and burning and makes for an especially difficult bus ride. I can just imagine what seven hours on a plane without any medication would be like. Yikes! I'm trying to keep it at one dose or less a day. Hopefully, the walking in Paris will loosen everything up and I'll be a new woman when I return to the states.

I can't believe it's May already. Where did the first four months of the year go?? When I received my follow up appointment date for August 26 with Dr. Yamada, I realized the summer would be practically over by then -- and it hasn't even started yet. It's funny how time drags when you're a kid and when you become an adult and really need more time (for chores, for seeing friends, for relaxing, sleeping, working, etc.), time just rushes by and there's never enough of it. Too bad we don't learn to appreciate all those "boring" days when we're kids. What I would give for a day to lay around on the front lawn, watching the clouds and complaining to my friends (and my mom) that there was nothing to do. LOL

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I'll try to be in touch before we leave.