Mom's been doing wonderful as far as getting around. Her and my aunt when out today for a while just to do some shopping and get out of the house. She's not needed to take any pain medication today at all which is wonderful.
Unfortunately, though, the doctor called yesterday and upon further inspection, there did appear to be cancer in some of the lymph nodes. Needless to say this has depressed my mother tremendously. The doctor is still confident that they caught the cancer in time (early), but this means she is probably going to have to start chemotherapy which can be so rough. We'll know more next week.
Computer wise, my cousin happened to have had a spare computer and gave it to my mom to use as long as she needs. I've already got it up and running for her, the only problem is that the system doesn't support SATA drives like the one in her old computer. So I'm going to take the hard drive back with me since my PC is SATA, copy everything down to DVD's and mail them back to her. That way she at least has all of her data like photographs and Photoshop files.
Then, as long as the cancer treatments don't bog her down too much, we'll build her a nice PC from scratch (since it's cheap as can be) and I'll have time to make sure we get it together and running flawlessly.
I had to clean her Rossi 38 Special for her. It was filthy. I hate that revolver. It's stiff, way too small for my hands, and jumps around like crazy when I fire it. But she's good with it, so I'm getting it all oiled up and cleaned for her.
It's hard. It's been a stressful week for me and I know it's been hard on her as well. Thank God for my aunt who's been able to help with all the medical things (she's a nurse) because I think my mom would die from embarrassment if I had to do it all.
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Saturday, October 06, 2007 5:42 PM