Thursday night update

Well, today didn't end quite as well as we had hoped -- don't panic, no real setback either -- Trish was eating and we did walk. In fact, Dr. Meade caught Trish walking and stopped in the room later in the day to cheer her on and congratulate her. However, lunch and dinner, made encore appearances after going down well. She was nauseous most of the day, we are both betting against her release tomorrow and think she is in for another day or so.

I also noticed that she is on precautions for the chemo regimen through September 2 -- which in my mind would mean that they wouldn't release her till than -- but you never know. The protocol that she is on for this treatment can be done as an outpatient, so maybe that's not an issue. Bottom line is Trish needs to be a little stronger and a little more nausea free before she gets out.

Trish was funny, despite the interruptions in the hospital, she says that she sleeps better in the hospital than at the Hackerman-Patz house (halfway house as one of her co-workers calls it). The house is noisy in the middle of the night: the people upstairs from us seem to wake up in the middle of the night and pace across the creaky floor or decide they want to rearrange furniture almost every night; the dumpsters located underneath our windows appear to be emptied every night at 2:15a.m. without fail; the room unit air conditioner is much louder the the HEPA filter in the hospital room (and of course it is too cold for Trish and too hot for me).

Speaking of noises. I have a new project, I am recording sounds from around the hospital to give you an audio essay of our experience (kind of ala NPR, but without the high brow commentary). Ok, I know, it's silly and I have enough else to do between work and Trish, but I thought it would be a fun diversion until I can fix my Sling box and watch TV to relax -- oh yeah that's another in-patient advantage Trish has - when she's in the hospital she has cable TV, at Hackerman we have rabbit ears and no channel comes in clear. And yet all of this is the silly stuff.

I hope that all of you have some real good plans for the holiday weekend. We'll be here. If you get bored give us a call. Check the website for where exactly we are. Have a great Labor Day weekend.