Random thoughts the day before surgery

The last couple of days have been busy with some last-minute coaching calls before I’m officially “out of the office” for awhile. Today there’s nothing planned except my liquid diet and other fun aspects of GI cleanse. LOL. Last night my sister-in-law texted that it sounds awful, but not really. What I’m afraid will be awful is the first few days of recovery after surgery. But we’ll see. Anyway, I feel like I have some time today as I sit around and drink my fluids, so I’m hoping to do some blogging and emailing. Because I do not think I’ll be feeling very well after tomorrow.

I also have most of the day tomorrow to sit around, because my surgery isn’t until late in the afternoon. I’m on clear fluids only today, and then tomorrow I don’t eat or drink anything except 24 ounces of presurgery compex carb drink.

Yesterday afternoon we went in for my pre-op consultation. We were running a touch late, and it made the late afternoon start of the commute traffic even more frustrating than usual. Then on the way home we hit the later commute traffic, which was even worse.

Boston is a nice city but the driving is nuts. The drivers are aggressive. They don’t wait for a gap, they just go anyway. I understand why – if they don’t just go, they’ll never get anywhere because there are never gaps. But still, it’s disorienting when – without any warning – drivers are suddenly darting in front of you or across traffic when there’s seriously no room. They do it really fast with no warning, so it’s like cars coming at you from all directions. And the old roads are narrow and the intersections make no sense.

We’ve borrowed an old car from Emily. It’s a stick shift and I think it needs a new muffler. So we sound like a motorcycle as we’re trying to keep up with the stop and go, tightly packed traffic. Vroom, vroom! But we’re very grateful to have it, otherwise John would want a rental car. But I’m not driving in that traffic. I ever have to go somewhere without John, I’ll just Uber. 

I have my groceries delivered from Whole Foods through https://primenow.amazon.com/. That’s what Emily does and I’ve discovered it’s a good deal. Prices aren’t as ridiculous as I would have thought, and I have Prime, so it’s free delivery with $35 minimum. With groceries, it’s easy to meet the minimum – if I’m a few dollars short I just throw in a chocolate bar! I’m not sure if delivery is available in Albuquerque, and shopping is easy in Albuquerque anyway – the traffic is a piece of cake and the stores are empty compared to here. But delivery is definitely worth it here!

Speaking of getting out and about…I’m a little nervous about the coronavirus coming to the US right when I’m having to do surgery and probably 6 months of chemo. Chemo is really hard on the immune system. I’m very glad I came to Boston for the surgery, but I don’t know where is best to be for the follow-up chemo treatments.