To say it was a tough week would be an understatement. It wasn’t just the illness and subsequent death of my FIL. It was also our own ongoing health issues, the horrors of the world, plus some small but really irritating things, such as a mouse incursion in our kitchen that grossed us out and required a lot of extra cleaning at a time when we’re like, “Can we please not?”
But I don’t want to overlook two of the best things about the week. On Tuesday, I went in for a second mammogram because the first one, done a few weeks ago, had revealed an anomaly. The nice thing about secondary mammograms is that there’s a radiologist on-hand so that you can get your results within minutes, and my results were good–everything was normal, no cancer detected. So that’s one good thing. (Note: while I was waiting for my results, I chatted with another woman also awaiting results. She was there because she’d found a lump. Before I left I wished her good luck and happy holidays, and I’m still thinking of her and sending good wishes her way.).
The other good thing is that we spent extra time with the kids. On Wednesday, we went to get our passport pictures taken. On Thursday, we went to the library to submit the passport forms. Both trips were extended by other stops, so there was plenty of time for miscellaneous conversation, and I enjoyed it all very much.