Friday isn't soon enough

We had made an appointment for 1:30PM on Friday to see Dr. Visser. His office called today and asked that we move it to 8:30AM. Mary also has to have a blood panel taken so that means we have to be at Stanford by 7:30-ish when the blood lab opens. It takes not quite an hour to run the panel and he'll want the results while talking to us, I am sure.

Hopefully, this will be a simple matter of the blood test and Dr. Visser poking around Mary's abdomen and saying things "look good." However, my suspicious mind jumped to the possibilities that he wants Mary early in case more labwork or clinic time is needed during the day on Friday. I don't think he knows any more than when we last talked at the end of last week, but who knows? The last time he advanced a meeting he informed us that Mary's path report came back positive for cancer in the lymph node. Friday isn't soon enough.

Overall it was a good day with the trip to Lake Vasona. Later, Mary walked to the mailbox to get the mail. Something she hasn't done since May 9th. Reenie made another superb meal and Mary ate the largest amount of food since the surgery. Unfortunately, it seems like its little to much for her shrunken tummy so she has been feeling stuffed since dinner.

For tomorrow we plan another outing, not as long as today because we don't have the Maids to work around. Reenie suggests a picnic lunch and that should be fun.

As for the healing process, the incision is closing up without infection due to Reenie's superb nursing procedure. Mary's abdomen continues to drain. And, Mary's pain level seems to be concentrated on the zillion staples in her tummy although I am sure there is more source of pain than just the staples.