My friend Mary Challis asked me today how I was doing. I told her "all right" She said, "Kind of melancholy?" I thought that was a great way to say how I'm really feeling.
Each day there are so many phone calls and details to take care of and you talk with people who do this on a daily basis. So they know what they are saying, yet it's new to me and I don't always follow what they are talking about. I usually end up with more questions than I started with. Or I realize I haven't asked the right question in the first place and I have to start back at square one. I can sometimes hear the impatience in the voices of those I talk to. What can I say? I'm new to all of this.
Honestly, this is an education I could have gone without for the rest of my life. Is that a selfish?
I've seen more doctors in the last two weeks than I have in my entire life. Family doctor, cardiologist, oncologist, surgeon--ologist. And that's just the beginning.
I spent a good half hour on the phone with the nurses at the oncologist's office because I still don't know what to expect. I had a page long list of questions and I have to say, she was wonderfully patient and answered as many as she could. A few had to be passed on to the doctor.
We did put together an accordion file with all the papers and information I've received so far. So, at least if I need to find a paper I will know exactly where to go to get it.
Thank you for prayers and phone calls and emails. I love getting each one of them.
Keep the Faith!
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