Cabernet and Carboplatin

That ends well. Today was a very very long. For me getting up at six a.m. hasn't happened since I rode AIDS Lifecycle. My normal get up time is eight a.m. then I spend the rest of the day doing pretty much nothing. Today, Jerry and I were out of the house at 6:30 a.m. to catch an early train to New York. Of course, after I bought the non-refundable tickets our appointments were pushed back an hour. Turns out that was not such a bad thing because it took quite a while to get from Penn Station to the Hospital for Special Surgery. And the address the HSS MyChart gave me turned out to be wrong, but we had time to get to my first appointment, which was to x-ray my femur. I was prepared for the surgeon to tell me I needed to wait a few more weeks before progressing. After all, I am old, and I have osteopenia, the precursor to osteoporosis. So despite taking multivitamins and calcium, I figured the standard four weeks post-surgery was not going to cut it. After x-rays, we went to my

I still feel remarkably good. I have a few aches in the femur, but I kind of look at that as a good sign of my bone starting to attach itself to the rod. The sutures on the back of my leg hurt if the skin gets pulled, so I do everything I can to avoid that. One time this past week I couldn't avoid the skin pulling because I needed to bend over to grab a cat. On Tuesday, a new volunteer was at the shelter, and while I am sure she had been trained, a cat she was socializing managed to escape his cage. He ran under the cages and popped out right in front of me. I gently picked him up and we got him back to his cage. It was worth a bit of pain. On Thursday I met with my new physical therapist. I felt so comfortable with her. She tested my strength and gave me a few exercises I can do during my "rest" period. She encouraged me to stand more to get my left leg stronger. She and my OT will coordinate to get my whole body ready to walk again. I am so excited. I am adapting to