Will the Real Elisabeth Talbot Please Stand Up?

Because this has GOT to be a joke. Mom has a UTI? Are you KIDDING ME? It's no joke, she called her nurse at the cancer center, and turns out her urine cultures grew some little buggies, and she gets to add another lovely antibiotic to her regime. The good news is (cause we're glass half full gals), now we know where the back pain was coming from.

I had to share this bit from an email I received from Coco today, because apparently there's a family joke circulating about how the house is having "sympathy symptoms." She loses a kidney, and one of the two water pumps fails. Why does the house have two water pumps? Who knows? Probably the same guy who knows why she has two ureters on the left side. A backup in case one fails? Well clearly, that plan didn't work out so well.

At any rate, today she was balancing plenty of rest and sleep with doing some laundry and helping Papa sort out some medications. He was pleasantly surprised when she just called the pharmacy, described the pill in question, and they were able to tell her what it was. I share this in case others didn't know you could do this. Any pharmaceutical website will do the same.


In the meantime, I'd like to reiterate what Coco said in her comment about holding off on phone calls and visits right now. We all know how much Mom wants to get back in to the swing of things, and it is taking all her willpower to force herself to rest.

Next week we should get a start date for chemotherapy, and then all you Helping Hands who've been chomping at the bit will surely get your chance to chip in. Once the holidays are over and the house empties a bit, we'll be calling in the reinforcements!