DAY 10 - EVENING

This is a picture of the street just a half a block from us... looks like any other street - Blockbuster, Starbucks and Dominoes.  :)


Aside from an hour here or there, Valerie has slept deeply the rest of the day.  If nothing else, she has had restful sleep today.

She has not been awake to take any medications tonight, so we'll see how that goes if she does wake up.  For now, the restfulness is good enough.

It's a bit of a dilemma - stay here and figure out the nausea (no insurance to pay for the tests) or go home where they may not really care enough about the nausea to get to the bottom of it (they discharged her from the hospital in the US with nausea meds - they only cared that her "numbers" from her blood draw were normal).

So, best case scenario, she wakes up feeling like she can take enough of the supplements and get through the last 4 days of treatment.

She hasn't woken up hungary today like she did last night.  I do have a plate of spaghetti noodles on standby if she wakes up and wants them.  She's never really cared if her food was cold - she'll eat it anyway.  I would be a far pickier patient ... wanting certain things heated up and served a certain way.  :)










** This picture is for my dad - he wanted pics of the grocery store that I visit most days - here is Calimax:

** I started bagging groceries at the age of 16 at our local Kroger.  At the Calimax, most of the baggers seem to be 55 or older. Seriously, it was all older men and women.  They hang out at the front of the store and seem to take turns bagging the groceries.  It also seems to be custom to tip the bagger.  I have no pesos and only a $50 bill, so I only offer a meager "gracias."  











** my mom suggested that I might think about buying treats for the nurses.  I bought some pan dulce (sweet bread) for the nurses station and included a note that said "gracias por toda su ayuda" (thank you for all of your help).   [and thank you Amy for the translation :)]   This pic shows a tray with the sweet bread that I bought on it - in this store, there are open shelves of different sweet breads.  You go up and get a tray and tongs and put whatever breads you want on the tray.  Then someone bags it up and puts a price on it for you.