Hi! Today I saw my hematologist-he's great! Not only is he knowledgeable, but he has three baby goats! Yes, three baby goats and of course he has the momma goat too, but I was too focused on the pictures of the 3 month old babies! Since for me and Mom just seeing pictures aren't enough my hematologist said that we could come over sometime this weekend to meet them. I'm so excited! Tonight we met a wonderful woman whose son has RSD (the pain syndrome), we met at the hotel we're staying at then went out to dinner. I hope that after surgery we will be able to see them again. They live on a farm about three hours away from where we're staying, so we'll have to figure out where we'll meet up!
Tomorrow we're going to hang out with some other amazing people we met this trip. My grandfather's colleague and close friend Dr. Portner's son lives in Arlington, Virginia with his family and a few nights ago we got our families together for dinner. His wife made us a home cooked vegetarian meal and his two sons hung out with me. We watched TV and they taught me all about all the cool birds out there. For example; the Albatross won in five categories, longest life being one of them! They are going to drive out to us tomorrow night and stay the night in the same hotel as us. Then on Sunday we're all going to go to the science museum! I can't wait!
Surgery is all systems go for October 4th! I never thought I'd say this, but I'm actually excited for it. This time next week I'll have had the surgery and be stuck laying flat, it could be worse because I could still be waiting for it to happen. I have confidence in my medical team at VCU which is important and I know that everything will go well. I'm keeping to my promise-when I come to California I'll be walking!
Tomorrow is also hair dye day! It wouldn't be a medical trip without it. For those of you who read my old blog from my time in Cleaveland Clinic you know that when we got bored we dyed hair. Blue, red, polka-doted, you name it we did it! The hair place next door to us has this non-permanent stuff that you just rub into your hair and it works! I'm going with purple streaks probably :) If I can figure out how I'll try to post pictures.
All my Love ~ The Sic(k) Chick
ps-good news! mom and i didn't get lost today! of course we only go to the same places every day, but that doesn't matter it's a major accomplishment for us!
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