Things went smoothly today- we took Dad to the hospital, waited until he got settled in and hooked up (Wasn`t about to let him do another runner!) and we went to see a movie.
On the way back to the hospital Shun said…
“There are a lot of vet animal hospitals in Australia hey”
me- “Yeah, same in Japan though. There is one near your house?”
Shun- “What? An animal hospital you mean? Yeah, but what I mean is that the chain “vet” is very common here…it was even in Melbourne”
me- cackling & laughing “Shun, Vet means Animal doctor- it isn`t the name of the animal hospital! It is short for vetenarian”
At least we could have a couple of laughs today….(The movie we saw, while very good was a bit serious. I enjoyed it but perhaps a comedy would of been better. Extremely well done though- we saw “Slumdog Millionaire”)
Dad has two or three treatments left in the trial. Next week he will have a CT Scan and biopsy to see if the lumps in his lymph nodes are shrinking and the week later he will have a bonemarrow biopsy to see if the cancer is still in his marrow.
We are watching Dirty Harry together now (last night we watched jaws)- two classics from the 70`s I had never seen before. Dirty Harry I guess because of the violence and jaws I never saw as a kid because my mum was afraid it would make my brother & I afraid of the water.
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I am just a twenty something Aussie girl living in Chiba, Japan with my Japanese husband trying to make sense of the crazy Japanese world we live in! We welcomed our first son in December 2009 (Noah) and a second son in January 2011, 2 months premature (Shion). I am working hard at raising them to be confident, bilingual, happy kids!
I think your Mum was right. I saw Jaws as a 13 year old and will never swim after dark.
Hope your Dad is okay.
Cellobella- Thanks, he had a bit of a crappy day today but it is usually like that the day after treatment. He is returning to work tomorrow and for some this would be a bad thing but he prefers to work as it takes his mind of things.
Watching jaws didn`t really scare me from the water- I guess because it had 1970`s effects…I remember watching jurassic park for the first time in elementary school & that scared me a lot but when I think about it jaws is probably more likely!