Monday Morning

So it's monday morning.  For some reason I keep thinking it is Tuesday... Hmmmm.   So last night I brought some stuff over here to the hospital, the important stuff like night gowns, toothbrushes, hairbrushes, and hair ties.  Anne was here when I got here and Tom and Mary arrived not long afterwards. Anne hung around for awhile being noisy (she cant control that especially when she is nervous, worried of off kilter like she is with all this) but not causing drama thankfully (she had apparently tried to cause drama when she came earlier in the day).  Tom, Mary, Mom, and I sat around for three hours yacking about my Dad, Anne, and general stuff.  It was nice, just wished the setting could have been around my grandparents fireplace instead of a hospital bed.

<NEWSBREAK> so i'm sitting here writing this update and I hear singing coming down the hall.  Walking up to us comes a whole bunch of people (hospital workers like doctors and admins and stuff?) singing Christmas carols.  It was really nice, brought a smile to my face but made my mom think we wouldn't have all our normal Christmas cookies and stuff this year.  I guess i'm gonna have to go find some good store bought substitutes! <NEWSBREAK>

Okay, back to normal writing...  so i'm here and we're waiting for lots of tests to be done.  They did an MRI this morning before I got here.  The next guy up is a bone scan to see if there is any cancer in the bones.  They are also going to be doing a biopsy of the lung and I think they might do another round of CT scans.  So a little bit after I got here the Tech (from I don't remember the department name but the department that does the the radiation and bone scans) came in and injected my mom with the stuff that makes them see the bones.  He pulled out four huge syringes and said not to worry because they were only filled with saline to flush all the lines out.  The final little tiny (okay not so tiny but way smaller than the saline syringes) was the stuff that irradiates her.  He warned that she would be radioactive and that no kids or women who could be pregnant should see her.  So now we have to wait two hours (noon or 1ish for anyone who cares) for the tech to come back up and get her to take her down to do the actual bone scan.  The tech said he would try to see if the biopsy team could do the biopsy at the same time he had her down for the scan... we will see.

Well Janie and Rosa just got here and my Grandma is supposed to be coming down soon so i'm gonna wrap this up for now.  Final note is I gave my Kindle to my mom to play with, she liked it but it kept putting her to sleep as she read, alas.