The "Treatment Room" for chemotherapy is an enormous space, with banks of individual stations just like the one Mae is occupying, each with a special recliner, a little table and the IV pole with the bags of stuff, dangling tubes and monitors. Infusing the bags took over six hours during which time Nick, David and I just kept her company and tried not to get in the way. A lot of patients came and went in that time, but I saw no-one younger than Mae.
Back home, Mae holds up the little pink-lidded bottle containing the slow infusion dose. It does its thing over 46 hours and she has to return to hospital for it to be removed. I could easily remove that myself, she offered. But that is not how things are done in the industry it seems. Today the unpleasant effects are starting to make themselves felt and she has been taking nausea medications and is feeling deeply tired. We're hoping to get her on her feet for a little walk later on. The gardens are quite pretty around here.
Canberra does Spring better than just about anywhere else I know. This is Tuggeranong Lake with white blossoms in the foreground and Tuggeranong Town Centre on the far shore.
Mae and Nick's rented house has quite a few nice trees and bushes in the garden.
(Above) This looks like a flowering peach tree.
This is alpine phlox
A very brave loropetalum
Wattles everywhere. Gorgeous.
Eriostemon, another Australian native.
Lian sent these photos from Sunday when she, Nick, Mae and Sarah went to a Bridal Fair. Prospective brides are issued with a hot pink wrist band, making them easier for the vendors to identify (and target). Here Mae has leaflets thrust into her hands in the middle of a photo being taken with Sarah.
This is close up of the wonderful ring specially designed (with Nick's input) and made for Mae by a Blue Mountains jeweller, David Loong. Instead of a traditional solitaire, it has the sideways placed silver model of a solitaire, with rampant bunny and kitty. Gently ironic and individual. Very Mae, very Nick.
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