Wednesday, January 14 - Saturday, January 17: De-Christmassing (and Still Waiting)

Wednesday I got my first fulvestrant injections--two shots, one at the top of each glute. I was a little nervous but they weren't anywhere as bad as I'd feared. It was a relief to finally get this part of the new treatment started. Do your work, powerful meds. Next dose is in two weeks.

Thursday, the electricians were here and told me when they arrived that the power would likely be off intermittently. So instead of working from home like I'd planned, I went into the office for the morning. (Andrew played with fire and worked from home.) Andrew picked me up at lunchtime and we had lunch at the club, sitting in front of the fire. Very pleasant. Then I worked from home all afternoon, and the power stayed on. 

Thursday evening was the Middle School and Upper School winter chorus concert. Mom and Dad drove in for it and we gathered in the basement afterward to have dessert for Mom's birthday (which is Friday). 

Friday was Greta's Middle School dance. She wore a beautiful dark-blue velvet halter dress and had a great time with her friends. Andrew had spent a large part of the afternoon in Greensburg, picking up our Volvo from the shop, but Lucia and I ordered for him from How Lee and we ate together when he got home. I also took most of the ornaments off the Christmas tree.

Lucia spent the entirety of Saturday--from 7am to 8pm--at a track meet in Youngstown. For the rest of us, Saturday was a busy day of tasks. We finally de-Christmassed the house. I'd put most of it away but we still had the tree up as well as all the outdoor lights. This was the biggest tree we've ever had, and getting it down was a very messy process since it was fully dead. Pine needles mixed with construction dust as Andrew and Greta dragged the tree outside. I hate taking down the Christmas tree. Two of my collections are still up--the glass tree forest and the flock of seasonal birds (from Target). These are wintry, not strictly Christmas, and I always leave them up through the winter. My 1989 Holiday Barbie is also still displayed, overlooking the Long Room from the top of the card catalog. She's been there all year. She might be there permanently. 

Greta had a crafty day, doing a variety of painting and sewing projects in a determined attempt to be more "analog" and stay off her phone. She really isn't a very screen-obsessed kid at all, using her phone exclusively to text her friends and look at Pinterest, but she is trying to break free even more, which I of course applaud. She and I also watched an episode of Stranger Things and worked on a puzzle.

Lucia came home very happy with her race times--today she ran a 6:10 mile. She's really enjoying track this season.

Insurance approval for ribociclib is still pending. This is stressful and frustrating. I get an update each day from my dr's office saying we're working on it; we'll let you know when we hear more. Send some insurance-approval energy into the universe, please. Someone at the other end of these calls and messages has the power to say yes.