Well, the princess is recovering slowly, but surely. She is winging it and not taking the pain medication very much, which is great. She is still in much pain and sleeping a lot. She is looking pretty good.
We are laughers. That is also great, but not for the princess. She can't laugh yet. It makes her cry. So we have to limit our humor to one or two snickers and no belly laughing. Actually, the only time she has to take pain medication is when we are belly laughing. BIL and I have had to go into separate rooms or outside during meal time to laugh so the princess won't hear it. It is similar to withholding that uncontrollable giggly laughter at a funeral, or during sleepy-time in a room full of 10 other sleeping people, or during a sermon. That part has been difficult for her.
The pathologist finished the report on Monday, but is not releasing it until another opinion comes through. That has us curious. Is it benign and he wants to make sure because it is a freakishly large tumor? Or is it such an odd tumor and malignant and he needs a second opinion to confirm that? We don't know and it isn't feeling good. We have all remained positive since the kidney wasn't involved. But this new information and a couple other details regarding the size of the tumor has us all on edge. The princess is about to lose it and we are trying to keep her calm until the pathologist calls with the answer. He doesn't know if that will be tomorrow or in another week. Especially since the initial report took a week to generate.
Will update as news is available.
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