Friday, July 25, 2008

My Wife is Too Perfect (aka Holding Steady at Four)

This morning Lynn, Dr. Fields' nurse called Stephanie's phone and said he needed to talk to her. Of course she could have said "*kchh* Houston, we are go for freakout, again we are go for freakout. Commence freakout *kchh*" and of course we did. Stephanie asked me to call them back around 12:30, which I did promptly and left a voice mail on the number I had. I was called back by some very nice lady, whose name I didn't catch and was very much NOT Dr. Fields. Undaunted I called MBP and left a message at the nurses desk around 1:30. At 2:30 I called MBP again and this time got to an operator and asked for Dr. Fields. He came on the line very cheerily and said that he had been thinking for a few weeks that since Stephanie had close margins he wanted to add one treatment to the end to make sure we had the best chance of getting all the cancer. He then asked if that was ok and more importantly whether or not we had any cruises planned...then he laughed for probably the second time I've heard him laugh. I told him that we hadn't planned any cruises just yet.

So now the radiation treatments don't end the day after our anniversary, but the day after that. Chemo still ends the day before our anniversary. I'm not sure how we will celebrate, any ideas?

6 comments:

Diane said...

Hi Stephanie,

How we thank the Lord for Dr. Fields who is looking after you so well~!!!
And we thank "THE GREAT PHYSICIAN" who is looking after you perfectly in every way!!!

Continuing to pray for you.

Lovingly,
Diane
:-)

Anonymous said...

Stephanie, we are so proud of you. You are a strong young lady.
Keep going girl, the end of treatment is near. Happy Anniversary to you both! Warner while you celebrate, buy your wife that T-shirt she wants and deserves. We love you guys,
Mrs. Robin, Mr. Troy, and girls.

Anonymous said...

Great things come to those who wait....or some thing like that! You have ALOT to celebrate! The end of this chapter is coming to a close. In the grand scheme of things 1 day is a "nano" second! Have an awesome weekend end and let's continue the countdown. HUGS from Arkansas!

Anonymous said...

hey...mom says she's crying all the time.
but on a happier note
Yay its still almost over

Happy Last Day of Chemo!

love ya

anna

Anonymous said...

There was a nice article about Dr.Pou in Saturdays Times Pic. She's been nominated for a national honor by the Association of National Medical Colleges for Humanism in Medicine. So now she's a national hero as well. I'll save the article or you can find it on NOLA.
Countdown is now three!

Love

dad

Anonymous said...

Stephanie.....ANYBODY STILL COUNTING????? ALMOST DOWN TO ZERO!!! HUGS FROM ARKANSAS! CINDY