The C Word – Day 24 Some degree of normalcy

For at least a few days and, if we are lucky, a few weeks we will get to have some degree of normalcy at home.  With surgery four weeks out we have a chance to take a breath and go about life as close to normal as possible.  A few appointments here and there but no further diagnoses looming in the air will enable us to continue to digest all that has happened and will happen. 

I got up at 4AM and went to the gym at 5, got my twice weekly workout in before the day began.  George was up and out the door for work as usual.  Nothing special happened at work, just “normal” stuff.  I even managed to reschedule a few things from my calendar – things that had to be cancelled and put off until things returned to something less chaotic and I could find the spare time for them. 

To maintain his strength, George and I take a nightly stroll around the block.  Unlike some of the blocks were I grew up that could be quite large, ours is perhaps a half mile long. Today George walked it at a pretty good clip, the best he has done thus far.  His appetite has been good although he now notices that he gets full pretty quickly.  That is due, in part, to the fact that he has masses of “jello” inside his abdomen putting pressure of various internal organs. 

All in all, today was a good day.  It was nice to have a relatively quiet day to just be “normal”.