Day 223, Year 7: Travel Lag
Date: Monday, June 18, 2012
Weather: Mostly Cloudy with Drizzle in the AM, Some Sun Late Day
Location: Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
It’s been a slow day. The long days of travel over the past few days have
gotten to us. Mark is really feeling terrible and has been in bed or
sleeping on the settee all day. His cold is just not getting any better,
and that plus the fatigue from the chemo has him pretty much wiped out. If
he doesn’t start getting better tomorrow, we will go to the doctor, but I
think the doctor is just going to say he needs more rest. So we’ll keep
doing that. Fourteen hours of travel on Thursday and seventeen hours
yesterday was probably just a little too much.
I got up and went to Heather’s this morning to help Jed with the boys. This
morning was Heather’s first Living Lab program. It is currently a half-hour
science call-in show that will be on the air at 9:30 am and 7:30 pm every
Monday. Today’s show was about the BP oil spill. Heather interviewed a
senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute that was a member of
the team of scientists who discovered the underwater oil plume. There is a
huge lawsuit underway, so there was much that could not be talked about, but
there was enough to make a really interesting show. Sam and Jonah listened
to the program with Jed and I, but their attention started to drift about
half-way through. We made it to the end of the program, but then I took the
big boys outside to play while Jed stayed inside with Oliver. We had an
early lunch and then I read stories. Heather got home about that time and
Jed took off for work. I got Jonah down for a nap, but Sam didn’t sleep.
He rested and then got up and went outside to play after I left. I know
Heather really needed a nap but I had to leave to go to the store and then
go home and fix a late lunch for Mark. So unfortunately, I couldn’t help
her. I’m planning to go over in the morning just long enough to pick up
frozen chicken broth for Mark. Then I will go back in the afternoon and
hold Oliver so Heather can hopefully get a nap.
Slowly, ever slowly, life will get back to normal-if there is such a thing
as normal in this world.
