Loose Strife

Amid our first big snow storm of the season, the kids and I drove down the mountain and back this afternoon to pick up Laura from the hospital.
Laura’s looking and feeling better. Her migraines have moderated both in frequency and severity. (She says the one that made her lose her cookies this morning was just an anomaly.) Her pain meds are significantly reduced. She is experiencing some bone mets pain again, so she’ll need to find the right dosage, but hopefully she’ll be comfortable at a lower steady state that won’t be as fatiguing.
Laura worries that chemo nausea will set in soon, since that’s what happened about this time during the previous two rounds. But she’s got some better guidance from a dietician and physical therapist that I hope can keep her a little more active and calorie “net positive”. Hopefully she can get into a good place and stay there. We heard many doctors talk about “vicious downward spirals”. Maybe she can find an upward spiral.
We’ve got about 10 inches of beautiful, light powder here. I just came inside from a late evening of moving snow. No good for snowmen, but if I were a skier I’d be playing hooky tomorrow.