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And back again we go
April 26th, 2009 Posted 9:34 PM
I can’t believe that tomorrow is Monday already. Can it really have been 5 days since we brought Christie back from the hospital, from that place that will always have a space in my heart because they saved my daughter’s life? I guess so… and so tomorrow morning at 8:00am, right in the midst of rush hour, we will leave to take Christie to Dr. Vusirikala’s office and then, presumably, the hospital. Provided that her blood and other counts are up appropriately, Christie will have another round of the Hyper CVAD chemo, along with her weekly dose of methotrexate in her Ommaya resevoir. Another 5 days or so in a hospital, away from Ryan, away from the pets and home.
It really sucks - when I’m with Christie, there’s a part of my heart that stays behind with Ryan and a part of me that’s sad. And when I’m with Ryan, it’s the same thing - part of me stays with Christie and misses her. I long for the day when my family can be together without worrying how long we have before Christie has to go back to the hospital.
I’m not ready to go back yet! It seems that we’ve had so little time, this time, to regroup and reconnect. We just got Amie back from the Humane Society, too, where her rear left leg was amputated thanks to the auto accident she was involved on April 1. The kittens have grown so much! And the entire front yard changed while we were gone - when we took Christie to the ER on April 2, the buds on the trees had barely started to open. Upon our return, everything was different. The buds had burst sometime during our absence, leaving the branches laden with their green finery.
Everything is just weird these days. There is no normal, not even our usual strangely cobbled semblance of normalcy. It’s all simply surreal. Often days blend into each other; sometimes I barely recall what month it is. I’ve missed bill payments, paperwork deadlines, all kinds of things. My short-term memory, already shorter-term than it probably ought to be, would likely resemble a colander if it could be seen.
Oh well. How can I complain that much if we’re in the process of saving Christie’s life? 
I’ll write more from the hospital. Everyone take care and make sure you make sure that the ones you love, know that you love them.
Peace,
Melinda