I got to speak to my mom for a little while last night. She sounded really good. The chemo is taking its toll on her - she says she's fine most of the time but then it'll suddenly hit her and she'll be really weak and sore. It gives her frequent nose bleeds, and her normally high blood pressure is so low she can't take a hot shower anymore because it makes her dizzy. So that's no fun.
But it's also doing what it's supposed to. The onco showed her a chart of her cancer markers and it's basically a vertical line down since she started the chemo. He's very happy with her progress and he thinks she will probably not need a second round of treatment. He does want to do another CT scan next month though, just to make sure that everything's "back to normal" before he goes away in September.
She kept going on about how selfish she's being at the moment, because she's turning down invitations and visits from friends, but she just isn't up to dealing with "people" (according to her, family isn't people). I kept telling her that it's okay to be selfish (not that she is), that she's gotta recharge her batteries some time, that she can't keep giving and giving and giving when her own well is dry, but I dunno how much of it actually got through to her. I don't think she knows HOW to not worry about and take care of everyone else.
I love my mommy, and I don't care who knows it!
Also, FI and I went shopping for our envelopes on Saturday. I wanted to see what size they ended up with so I could be sure to print our invitations up at the right size. Well, Tiny Town in the Middle of Nowhere-ville has exactly one art/craft/stationery shop (at the moment, anyway - there's another but it's closed for renovations or moving or something) and they did not have a single nice envelope. I really should have bought the envelopes when we were up in the city for my sister's wedding, but I didn't think about it then, did I? And the invitations need to go out before the next time we're going to the city, so I just bought some plain white C6 envelopes and bucketload of ribbon and prettied them up myself.
Thank goodness I had less than 40 envelopes to do (37, including spares). I don't know what I would've done if we'd had any more. I put NCIS on in the background on Sunday morning, and just went at it, and it took 3 hours. I still have to add the names, and I don't really want to think about how long that's going to take.
I somehow bought 15 outer envelopes less than we need though. I'm not sure how, because I triple-counted the list before we went. Oh, and one of FI's friends got left off the guest list, don't ask me how, but I caught it while I was counting up envelopes yesterday. So he didn't get a StD, but he will get the invite.
Man, weddings are hard!
There were two minor bad things over the weekend though: 1) our earth leakage has gone, apparently, and because nothing in open past 11am on a Saturday in this cruddy town, the electrician couldn't fix it - he just bypassed it. Which obviously isn't ideal, but if he hadn't, we would have had no power all weekend, we would've lost all the food in our fridge and freezer, and FI's uniform wouldn't have gotten clean (it was already in the washer when the earth leakage died on us). So I'm waiting for the electrician now. Hopefully he'll come soon. And 2) the ATM swallowed my bank card. Luckily there was a technician there, working on the other ATM in that row, so she could retrieve my card for me. Apparently my card is "too old" for the machine. Who knew that was even a thing? I'm closing that account out end of this month anyway, but really... super annoying.
Anyway, yay for good things!
TL;DR - My mom's cancer is being totally annihilated; I used ribbon to pretty up plain white envelopes because I couldn't find any nice envelopes; our earth leakage in the apartment died, and the ATM hates my bank card, but everything's groovy and we're all okay!
ETF: because English is hard