I spoke with Carole today. She was released from the hospital today after spending the night there for observation. She said she was a bit sore but would be taking some pain medication after lunch. Her next visit with her doctor will be on Tuesday. I suppose we'll have to wait until then to get the report from the pathologist.
While we haven't yet heard any more from the doctor, I did have a chance to speak with Carole tonight by telephone and she sounded in good spirits. She is staying overnight in the hospital because she has a drainage tube under her left arm from the surgery. The pathology report will be back on Friday, she tells me, so we won't know anything more definitive before then. She is expecting to go home tomorrow.
Jeff called a bit earlier, while I was shopping for groceries, and reported that Carole is out of surgery. She will stay in the hospital overnight because the doctor removed more than he had anticipated from the area around the lump. Also the lymph nodes were harder, and apparently more compact than originally expected, so her «stage» description moved from Stage 2 to something higher, as yet unreported. The pathology report will take about a day before the results are known, so the doctor decided to keep her in the hospital overnight, something that he hadn't anticipated going into the surgery. When more is known, I'll let you know.
Carole, my ex-wife, is supposed to arrive at this hour at the hospital in Gainesville, GA, for a surgical procedure related to her recently discovered breast cancer. The mass that was discovered a week or so ago will be removed along with some lymph nodes and all that will be sent to pathology for examination. Depending upon what is discovered in that examination, the next steps in the treatment process will unfold. Like a lot of surgeries nowadays, this one will be a «day» procedure, and she won't have to spend a night in the hospital.
Carole Green, one of Connor's Grandmothers, made the trip up from Lula, GA, to visit with her new grandson on Mother's Day this year. And despite the grimmace on his face, he is quite at home in her arms.
I've written before here about my enjoyable period as a member of the Writers Conference on ILink in the early 1990's, which is where I met my friend Paul Moor. The other day, I learned that Terry Preston, who was also a member of that group, has a blog called, From the Mountaintop, so that led me to wonder if other members of that same ILink Writers group had migrated to blogging. It seems to me a natural move. Paul supplied the email addresses of a number of those he recalled who were also members, and yesterday I sent an email to them asking that they contact me and let me know if they were blogging or not.
This last week has been eventful with both good news and bad. First the good news. The fashion-plate baby at the right is Connor Michael Nelson, my grandson, who was born on Sunday, May 1st, at 1:13 pm as the previous post indicates. He and his mother came home from the hospital on Monday evening and they are both doing well. I've posted some short videos of him in the hospital so you can see him enduring his first interactions outside the womb and voicing his displeasure with all of that attention. His lungs and vocal cords seem to work well. Everyone in the family is very happy with his presence and we all rejoice in his current innocence and the long road ahead of him to learning and full participation in life. We'll do what we can to guide him well and to help him learn.
The newest Nelson arrived into this world today at 1:13 PM at Park West Hospital here in Knoxville. He and his mom are healthy. He is a big boy already. At birth, he weighed 8 pounds and 1 ounce and he was 20 and 1/2 inches long. Pictures will follow soon, when they are available.
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