Doldrums

Doldrums: An area of low pressure near the equator where the average winds are slight. Early sailors named this belt of calm the doldrums because of the low spirits they found themselves in after days of no wind.

Yikes - guess we've hit the doldrums! Robin's energy continues to be low. Today she went out only to go to her radiation therapy appointment. This evening we started watching "Hellboy" on TV - a guys "comic book hero" action movie. I went out for an hour to take a short walk and pickup some groceries and when I came back the same movie was still on the television. Robin didn't even have the energy to change the channel while I was gone! ;)

It's even hard to get a smile out of her these days, though it's still there! We can sense that we're nearing the end (we're about 70% through) and Robin focuses each day on the number of treatments remaining. This morning we asked the radiation oncologist about finishing early but he implied we're going all the way to November 7th.

We had planned that we could stay in New York a few days after radiation completes in case she needs time to recover, but I think we won't hesitate to get packed and get headed home as soon as possible! We're already lining up appointments through the end of the year: two pre-surgery meetings next month, one post surgery follow-up in December. If they do perform reconstruction in December, then there will be several follow-on procedures to finish up the dental work - potentially March and April of next year!