Day 245, Year 9: Cleaning, Planting, Playing
Date: Monday, June 23, 2014
Weather: Same, Same—Gorgeous Summer Weather, High Near 80 degrees F
Location: At Home with Bruce and Jane Woodin, Falmouth, MA
Today was another low-key day. Jed is still on full-time single-dad duty, so I went to Windbird this morning to do a little late spring cleaning. I guess I’ll have to call it summer cleaning since it is officially summer now. I finished up around noon and went to pick up Mark and we then went to Heather and Jed’s. I really needed to spend some time in the garden doing some late planting, so Mark went with me to stay in the house and listen for Ollie to wake up from nap. This gave Jed the freedom to go outside and play soccer with Jonah and work on the pirate ship project. He is building an addition to the tree house that will turn it into a tree boat. Mark, Ollie, and I walked to pick Sam up from school and then Mark and I headed home via the grocery store. We wanted to have tacos for dinner so we needed no fat cheese, 99 per cent fat-free turkey (instead of beef), and white corn tortillas that are almost fat-free (and taste terrible). The tortillas were so bad that the whole dinner was just not as good as we had hoped, but it tasted somewhat like tacos. If Mark has to stay on this diet, I guess we’ll adjust, but I’ll make home-made fat free tortillas next time.
Early tomorrow morning we head to Boston for Mark’s post-surgery check-up. Since the chyle leak has stopped draining, we are hoping they will remove the drain. They will definitely remove the 20 metal staples from his stomach and hopefully they will tell us that he can go back to a normal diet. This no fat diet is challenging. We’d be very happy with low-fat, but we’ll just have to wait and see what they say. Mark will meet with his surgeon and then he will meet with his oncologist and radiation oncologist who take over his care once the surgeon releases him. We have no idea if they will be recommending chemo or radiation as a follow-up to the surgery. So we are obviously anxious to hear what all the doctors have to say tomorrow. Once we are done at Mass General, we will go to the airport to pick up Heather who returns from her trip to Florida tomorrow afternoon. We are so anxious to hear all about her trip, so I know we will talk all the way back to the Cape. And I know Jed and the boys will be so glad to have momma back home.
