Expectations and Reality

We Expected That

I have been a little scarce at work lately. I took two weeks off, and for the past week, I have been working at home in the mornings, going to the office in the afternoons, then skedaddling up to OHSU in late afternoon.



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While I was in the office today, several people asked me how Pam is doing. I tell them she is pretty sick and miserable, but I always try to reassure them that it is exactly what we expected.  Seems a little strange:  She is nauseated, blowing chunks occasionally, and not getting enough nutrition, but we expected that.  She has a lot of pain because of mouth sores, but we expected that. She has kept her great attitude through all of this, and I expected that. So far, the only unexpected thing has been the horrible timing for catching the flu.



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She is going to get tested to see if she is still "throwing" the flu virus tomorrow. The test results take 2 or 3 days. If she tests negative, she will be allowed out of her room and she can walk the hallways. That would be huge.

Boogie Fever

Since she can't walk in the halls, she put on some 80s dance music today and busted some moves.

Terwilliger

Observant readers may recall that one of my goals was riding my bike up the hill to OHSU.  In my mind, I was going to do that every day after work.  Hasn't happened yet.

Today, I could barely pedal against a headwind when I was on a flat road, so my bike and I took the namby pamby tram up the hill to OHSU.  After I got some pasta from the cafeteria, and Pam had about two teaspoons of yogurt for dinner, we watched the season finale of Gold Rush, my favorite show.  (Spoiler Alert:  Team Todd did not get 1,000 ounces of gold.)  I don't know if I mentioned this before, but I was on a flight with Todd and Jack Hoffman of Gold Rush fame from Las Vegas to Portland a couple of months ago. (They rode first class.)  After we landed in PDX, I surreptitiously followed Todd and his young daughter on our way to baggage claim and eaves dropped on them.  It was wrong, but I am not really ashamed of it.

Turns out Todd is pretty short, and  Jack really does talk that way.... "You are all millionaires, you just need to get it out of the ground!"

After GR, I rode my bike back down Terwilliger and through downtown Portland, then home.  It was a gas.  I am either going to ride my bike up that hill  before this whole thing is over, or I am going to lie about it.  You will never really know.

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