What a relief ...my last six hourer! Along with visits from Toby, Gary and Dori, my Benadryl made me sleepy and so they all helped to pass the time. I look like a Grandma in the blanket but I can't resist them they come out of a heated cabinet and are all warm and toasty and I love them! It is great to have finished this first phase of the detour and I realise how lucky I have been to have got through it the way I have. Just in case any of you might ever find yourself in this position [which you won't as I am doing it for you!] it really is, as people told me before I started...... "doable." There's no better word really; it's just something you have to do! I couldn't have done it so graciously without all the love and support that you have sent winging my way and the chit -chat to distract me, keep me talking, writing, texting, replying to e-mails and Skyping.
You may wonder why I bother to have a wig on when I go to the Cancer Clinic but I make a point of dressing up not down to go there otherwise it is so easy to look the hospital slouch! Toby is off to Australia at the weekend so I won't see him for a while. He, like all three of my lovely family, have shown such love and support in a quiet way that I'm sure this has been a major part of getting through the eight colours!
Could this Obama First dance get any better?
So a new leg of a journey begins for you, Toby, Obama and America and the world so you are in good company!Bon voyage to you all!
Posted by: jenny | Jan 21, 2009 at 03:48 PM
Fantastic, well done Liz !!
Hope Toby enjoys his time in Oz.
Love, Anne xx
Posted by: Anne | Jan 22, 2009 at 08:54 AM
Hey Liz - r u kidding? U don't look like a Grandma to me - in fact u haven't changed a bit - always look the same to me!
Reading your 'blog' same time every eve. Off to Parkgate this Sunday - will be thinking of u. Much love, Biddy xx
Posted by: Brigid | Jan 22, 2009 at 02:09 PM
Liz - just had to send another 'comment'! Is that the same Toby who you and I (with my son, Ralph) took to that baby clinic in Neston all those years ago?! (Just said that to embarrass him!)Ralph is now 6'2" (not bad for a mum who is only 5')! Just a great pic of u and him together - hang on in there! Biddy xx
Posted by: Brigid | Jan 22, 2009 at 04:42 PM