A PORT IN EVERY STORM
A "PORT" IN EVERY STORM
Let's see, where was I? Oh yeah, commenting... I believe that you can leave a comment by simply going to the very bottom of my post where it says COMMENTS, click on that and fire away. Posterous takes care of notifying me when someone leaves a message. Hopefully it is as simple as that.
On Friday I had my port put in, which took up most of the day, but at least it was outpatient surgery and I was able to come home after I woke up. The woke up didn't last very long though, as soon as I walked in the door I curled up on my favorite chair and went back to sleep - see below (after taking a pain pill, that is - nothing like drugs to put you in la-la land). The pill is more for the pain in my bones than for the surgery. Apparently the cancer is predominantly in the ribs on my right side, which makes even a light touch hurt. My first chemo will be this Tuesday so with the port the nurses avoid poking away at my veins; the drugs are administered straight into the port which has been imbedded in my chest. At the end of the treatments it will be removed.
The only "good" part of this whole procedure is that I will get to read alot. I am an avid reader, sometimes having several books going at the same time. Right now I am just finishing an amazing book by Wallace Stegner, "Angle of Repose," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971. It is a story consisting of many layers - a memoir of the main character's great grandmother, a vivacious, cultured young woman from the East who marries a handsome mine engineer and finds herself living a very rough life on the Western frontier. Their triumphs and disappointments are told in a prose so beautiful and tragic that you long for their happiness but realize it is slipping from their hands. The son born to that couple is the grandfather of the man researching and writing the memoir, and that writer has his own personal history to tell, as does the young woman who has been hired to serve as his typist. She is a 1970's Berkley hippie with her own serious issues. The contrast between each generation is masterly done.
Thanks to all who read my post and left a comment. I surely appreciate your concern, in particular the Buerger family who have been through this so recently. I love you all!
Nancy

