Update from Geoff -- It's Back to Work!

While yesterday was a quiet day for Robin, today the hospital hummed with busy professionals back from the holiday weekend.

Today Robin met:

-a keen red-haired intern who startled her awake at 7:30, briefly announced she would be ready to go home "soon," and then left. It was all a bit abrupt. (While Robin's doing well with this new hip business, no one else who we saw today talked about departing soon ...);

- Her physiotherapists arrived and persuaded her to walk the 50 feet to the nursing station and back - excellent progress and quite tolerable pain levels;

- an occupational therapist who reviewed our home equipment, resources and routines. She realized we were fairly well set up, but made some helpful suggestions;

- a social worker who chatted to Robin for half an hour to make sure we were OK;

- all the regular visits from nurse with Meds, taking vitals, and other care;

- and a visit from our favorite oncologist, Dr. Hopkins.

Dr. Hopkins is one of the saints in our lives. I'm sure in some other parts of her life, she has her share of human foibles, but to us she is firmly set on a pedestal. She has been by our side since the beginning of Robin's cancer odyssey, performed two surgeries, and has helped us explore every avenue of medical treatment Robin tried or considered. We cherish her. It was a really good visit, even if we were discussing the latest scan results, which, while expected, were almost uniformly discouraging on the cancer front.

We've also been quietly upgrading - Robin got a private room yesterday, as well as replacing her old bed with a fancy high-end bed that is better at "Trendelburging" - not really a verb, but keeners can look up the noun.

So all in all a very busy, but tiring day.

Love, Geoff and Robin