day 59 (course 2 day 4)

hi everyone!  i'm here with mom and dad in buffalo... it is great to see mom!  she is so much stronger than she was even a week ago. 

she had a pretty good day today, she balanced her checkbook.. wrote a few thank you notes and rested a lot.. dad got here around 4 and amy taught him how to do the chemo shot.. that was not as bad as he thought it was going to be... but it is a bit scary.. after all.. we're injecting mom with poison!  amy left shortly after the chemo shot.. mom said she did such a great job and she's so thankful that amy is able to be here with her.

I got here around 6:30 and by 7 mom had me making a spaghetti dinner.. like camp style spaghetti.. we cooked meatballs in our rice cooker, then added sauce and let it simmer.. then we boiled pasta in a small saucepan using our new double burner.. this whole process made me a little nervous: 1st because our largest pot only holds about 2 cups of water... so boiling pasta was more like making wallpaper paste... 2nd we are in a a small room with a large smoke detector.. so we were quite sure our frying meatballs were going to set off the alarm in the hotel.. 3rd.. to prevent smoke from reaching the alarm, we moved our cooking to the bathroom.. that just is weird in itself.. right?  after some strategic planning we pulled it all together and it wasn't bad at all!  mom was happy and that's what counts!

shortly after dinner we had to give mom her potassium... amy made the orange liquid sound like a magical donut in Homer's eyes.. it's more like orange poison and now she hates orange anything... figures.. we gave her the 1 1/2 teaspoons she's supposed to get, lightly diluted with orange drink and she immediately threw it up and might never take it again. so now we're trying to think of all the other ways we can hide this terribly salty orange liquid sweat.. in smoothies... in v8 juice... in applesauce... cranberry juice... nothing sounds good.   let us know if you have any suggestions!!

tomorrow is going to be a good day we hope.. some more thank you notes.. maybe a day trip to wegmans and if we get really inspired, maybe a drive to niagra falls.

mom is so grateful for all your prayers and support.. she can't believe all of the groups that are praying for her.. many of the people don't even know her and she's very touched that you are all out there praying for her..

k.. that's it for now..

love.