Sunday, January 9, 2011

1/9/2011

hi there!

summary: tank is relatively unchanged. very tired. had chinese for lunch, in the Family Area. watched football last night. chemo tomorrow.

I thought i'd start including a summary for the barely interested readers.

yesterday, sally and i returned to bayside after picking up cookies at carlocks, per tanks request. but when we got to bayside, and woke him, he was much too tired to chat, and i said we would return later. sally took the cookies to the nurses station.

we were going to return to the motel, to be sad, but instead we went to downtown morro bay to find rainn wilsons book Soul Pancake at the bookstore (Coalesce). Im uncertain about that spelling. we couldnt get downtown, though, because there was a farmers market, so we parked and walked, and it was tons of fun. gotta love a farmers market. Coalesce was out of the book (congrats, rainn), so we will try again elsewhere (tank's a bit interested in the premise of the book, and i thought i could read aloud). we bought oranges and dates and apples at the market, and picked up some business cards. there was a cute poncho for kennedy, but not in her size. she'd certainly rock a poncho.

terry picked us up, and we all went to bayside together. tank was still very tired. Oh! we bought blackberries for him, and he ate them. seems like a minor detail, but its the only thing i saw him eat all day. he was eager. he can taste very few things.

there was some sadness when tank wanted to go home and watch football. sally and i could see that terry thought it a very poor idea, and maybe an impossibility. tank really wanted to do it, though, cause his tv at bayside is small, and the other patients tv is on also. its not father dino...he transferred out. but, after some discussion, and a phone call to find out when and where the game could be viewed, terry, sally, and i left tank behind, watching the game at bayside. it was awful, but there were lots of good reasons to...not try to get him home. still...i was sad, and confused, and uncertain.

the three of us went to Dockside for dinner, then terry dropped us off at the motel.

per tanks specific (and surprisingly accurate) instructions, sally and i found a chinese restaurant this morning in los osos. we bought an assortment and took it to bayside for lunch with terry and tank in the family area. tank was in a wheel chair, and seemed less tired than yesterday. he ate happily and eagerly. maybe 400 or 500 calories.

oh...also last night, while waiting to be seated at dockside, terry talked to us about tank and his diabetes, and the importance of not taking ANY sweets to him. i think we are all on the same page regarding this, and, even though its difficult, we will refrain from taking him sweets, even in small amounts. in fact, anything too carb rich.

the lunch visit was fun. i pushed tank back to his room afterward, and a nurse helped him into bed. he was tired, so sally and i left and came to burger king to blog. poor, bored sally. shes a trooper. later, we will get seafood bisque for tank at dockside, cause that sounded good to him. in fact, i took a list yesterday, and read aloud a list of foods that i thought might appeal to him. about half did. so sally and i are going to concentrate on taking those foods to him while we are here. all are healthy.

kelly called tanks phone, but i happened to have it with me. darn. its with tank now, so kelly can call back. kelly is thinking of coming back to morro bay with me after peggys visit. tank loves having us here...i know he does. Kelly suggested i improve my "gibbs" when i answer tanks phone. he said i was too friendly, and not urgent enough.

terry suggested we drop by the house, and we probably will, later. its a beautiful day here. sunny and breezy.

sally misses carter.

tank was amused by my account of elvis's recent geography lessons at my house.

take care, all. polly.

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