Today we’re packing and trying to remember everything we need for a road trip, because tomorrow morning will arrive before we know it, and we will soon be making tracks for Durham, North Carolina, and Duke. Peter is having a good day, and for the first time in a long time, his voice sounds almost normal! Either the chemo or the radiation had made his voice scratchy and low in volume, sometimes barely above a whisper, but today I notice that it’s much stronger. He has been eating better, too, and we took a 20-minute walk around the block.
Peter’s brother, Gaby, and Gaby’s grandson, Erik, were with us and with Lis for the last two weeks, and they are leaving today to return to Germany. Gaby was here in Athens with us for four days, and he and Peter had a chance to catch up with each other. Lis had an accident at home and broke a bone in her right hand, so she’s now wearing a cast, and then she came down with a bronchial bug, so she won’t be able to drive with us to Duke tomorrow, as she had planned. Our good friend, Ed Levine, has offered to accompany us as a second driver, for which I am so grateful. It’s an eight-hour drive, one way, and although Peter is much better now than he was in December, it will be reassuring to know that Ed can take the wheel when my knee locks up, as is its wont, or when I get sleepy, after too many hours of superhighway. We’ll be on the southern edge of the latest snow storm, so I’m hoping that it will stay out of our way.
The dialysis cycler malfunctioned last night in a new way, necessitating a late call to Technical Support, and we lost three hours dumping out of the dialysis in progress and starting over, after which the night went fairly smoothly. Peter is trying to pace less, but he says that he has to work so hard not to get up and pace that he can’t sleep! ??? Are our problems intractable, or what? Or are they merely intricately baffling, in a Zen-like way?
I’ll try to send an update some time Wednesday, after we’ve seen the docs and have something to report.
Peter’s brother, Gaby, and Gaby’s grandson, Erik, were with us and with Lis for the last two weeks, and they are leaving today to return to Germany. Gaby was here in Athens with us for four days, and he and Peter had a chance to catch up with each other. Lis had an accident at home and broke a bone in her right hand, so she’s now wearing a cast, and then she came down with a bronchial bug, so she won’t be able to drive with us to Duke tomorrow, as she had planned. Our good friend, Ed Levine, has offered to accompany us as a second driver, for which I am so grateful. It’s an eight-hour drive, one way, and although Peter is much better now than he was in December, it will be reassuring to know that Ed can take the wheel when my knee locks up, as is its wont, or when I get sleepy, after too many hours of superhighway. We’ll be on the southern edge of the latest snow storm, so I’m hoping that it will stay out of our way.
The dialysis cycler malfunctioned last night in a new way, necessitating a late call to Technical Support, and we lost three hours dumping out of the dialysis in progress and starting over, after which the night went fairly smoothly. Peter is trying to pace less, but he says that he has to work so hard not to get up and pace that he can’t sleep! ??? Are our problems intractable, or what? Or are they merely intricately baffling, in a Zen-like way?
I’ll try to send an update some time Wednesday, after we’ve seen the docs and have something to report.
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