Almost done.\u00c2\u00a0 Almost done.\u00c2\u00a0 Almost done.<\/p>\n
Today was the penultimate day.\u00c2\u00a0 I should have geeked out yesterday and called it the antepenultimate day.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, this is what my English Literature degree comes to.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, the antepenultimate day, I overheard one of the nurses arranging for hospice care for a patient with pancreatic cancer.\u00c2\u00a0 She used the word “nonresectable” which I think means it is inoperable.\u00c2\u00a0 My grandmother died from pancreatic cancer.\u00c2\u00a0 Hearing the word “hospice” was scary, but also reminded me how well I am doing.\u00c2\u00a0 How healthy I feel.\u00c2\u00a0 How far I am from giving in and going under.<\/p>\n
Today I gave all the nurses cookies (that my brother made) and the URL to this blog.\u00c2\u00a0 I gave it to my massage\/healer person too.\u00c2\u00a0 While it was happening, I wanted it to be private from them, but now that I am leaving, I want them to see it.\u00c2\u00a0 Ah… control.<\/p>\n
I’m starting to feel like I’m already transitioning back to NYC.\u00c2\u00a0 I made a haircut appointment (my hair is wildly out of control.)\u00c2\u00a0 And I made an appointment with my NYC oncologist so I can learn how to do the self injection pen.<\/p>\n
Wait, did you catch that… my NYC oncologist<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m so bi-coastal I have two oncologists…\u00c2\u00a0 LOL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Almost done.\u00c2\u00a0 Almost done.\u00c2\u00a0 Almost done. Today was the penultimate day.\u00c2\u00a0 I should have geeked out yesterday and called it the antepenultimate day.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, this is what my English Literature degree comes to. Yesterday, the antepenultimate day, I overheard one of the nurses arranging for hospice care for a patient with pancreatic cancer.\u00c2\u00a0 She used … Continue reading Day 19: Are we there yet?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[36,31,37,16,30,22],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-update","tag-blog","tag-brooklyn","tag-happy","tag-other-peoples-stories","tag-portland","tag-telling-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}