"Like most of the world's population I'm into coffee, but in a properly big and important way. My perfect weekend would start with a pint of coffee." - Jimmy Carr
Lots happened the last couple of days but now were into the weekend and not much is scheduled.
On Thursday we met with the Dr. responsible for the radiation therapy. She went over a list of potential outcomes and had us sign a couple consents acknowledging the potential side effects and long term complications. Nothing sounded good, for example a trivial one was cataracts and a serious one was "death". The Dr. said cataracts was something they didn't worry about because it could be easily treated with surgery. But all in all she was positive and pointed out that the dose of total body irradiation Elise would receive was well below the levels that Leukemia patients undergo, so she thought most of the side effects and complications wouldn't be nearly as bad. With one exception...apparently lower doses of radiation can lead to painful salivary glands for a few days. She said they weren't sure why.
Elise also had an appointment with the nutritionist. Given her diet (typical 13 year old) this might be a worrisome event (mostly for her parents who harbor guilt about her diet), however Elise's over processed diet is exactly what they want. Organic, unpasteurized food can result in just what those processes came about to prevent: sickness. We often forget that the diets that are currently in vogue (organic vegetables, etc) actually killed a LOT humans over time due to infectious agents in the food.
In the evening we had a nice meal outdoors at a "Neapolitan" pizza joint. (See picture). It was beautiful weather and the food was pretty good too.
Today was the Verizon FIOS install at our apartment, a ophthalmologist appointment, and moving into our apartment for the duration (ie leaving the Doubletree). All took longer than expected. FIOS rocks - the speed is something that I'll miss when we move back to Ridgecrest (where cable modem is about the best it gets.) The eye doctor didn't find anything unusual although Elise got to sport those cools shades they hand out when they dilate your pupils. And moving out of the Doubletree was a good trial at what it will take to pack the care to get home. Very full.
Tonight we're spending or first night at the new apartment. Becky and I were surprised that you can't get wine at a supermarket here in Maryland! We figured out the process but it just made us remember that we aren't at home.
Tomorrow morning will be interesting. I was real careful to make sure we had a coffee maker, coffee and foo foo creamer on hand for Saturday morning. Becky just pointed out that we don't have any coffee cups yet....aaaaaaaaggggggghhhhhhh! I guess that just mean we'll go for a morning walk and stumble across a Starbucks or some other caffeine establishment.
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