Back to Work

Yesterday was my first day back to work since the 19th. It was difficult leaving Stephanie, even in the very capable hands of her mom. If I had enough vacation I would probably have taken off long enough to be done with radiation even. Work has been great to us. First of all they gave Stephanie a job, then when all this happened they have given both of us all the time off we need for appointments and such. They have been much better than one of the girls in ICU waiting room. Her dad had emergency open heart surgery with 5 bypasses, and when she told her office she would be going to Baton Rouge her boss told her "Well this is a really busy time". Later they sent her a text message asking if she would be in the next day. That really makes me appreciate these guys all the more. Regardless, now that I'm back from my twelve days off I don't really know what to do with myself. It's been difficult getting back in the swing of things, especially since most of what I did every day is located an hour away from here, and someone else is covering for me right now. So Im stuck in the office doing inside work, which is very hard after spending every day outside for teh past 6 months. Stephanie continues to do better. Yesterday at Dr. Kaplan's we learned Stephanie will have the permanent skin graft done to her arm Monday June 9th, and a week later will be off the wound vac (one less tube, yippee!). Today is also the start of chemo for oneour friends in Siloam, you can go to her blog and see striking similarities between our two stories. She is Vicki Dees under our friends column. Please pray for her during this time as well.
Today we see Dr. Pou for a follow-up and to ask her when Stephanie can get off this high dollar food. It costs $30/day to feed her. That's like going out to eat for every meal, according to one of my co-workers. I told Stephanie she should think of it that way, and when she's better we won't have to out to eat, after all she'll have eaten out every meal for several weeks.
We are planning on discharging ourselves from home health on Tuesday so we can start speech therapy on Thursday. We will find out the radiation treatment plan from Dr. Fields on Friday. On Tueday we will meet with the medical oncologist to see if he reccommends anything in addition to or different from Dr. Fields.