Day 4 and Dauna is outta there!

Sorry, I got baseball on the mind.  It's October.

But Daunarubicin is history.  Heidi got three days of the nasty "orange-pee" drug, as she called it.  She is still on cytarabine for 4 more days.  Then it will be a short 2-3 week recovery period.  Then there will be . . . well, more.

Anyway, the word of the day is Reiki.  No, that does not describe Heidi's pattern-rich full-color clothing choice.  It's this odd laying of hands almost-massage almost-meditation thing.  It's offered free to patients here.  So ya can't complain about anything that's free, right?  hmmmmm . . .

Heidi was really excited about it, and seemed to appreciate the calming effect.  So it was a good thing for her.  They'll be back, which is good.

I gotta say, though, that I was surprised.  I was working on my computer while the whole thing developed.  Heidi was laying there and they positioned themselves around her.  They kinda warmed up by holding her.  Then they switched hands.  Then maybe they moved to a different hold.  I was keenly interested to see what was gonna happen.  Then they picked up their stuff and left.  What I thought was a warmup was actually the main event.  The short was actually the premiere.  The foreplay was the . . . okay, too many metaphores.  I felt completely unfulfilled.  But Heidi appreciated their warm hands.  That's what really matters.  Perhaps the best way to describe it is it was at the opposite end of the spectrum from the rocket science with which I was concurrently engaged. 

Doesn't matter.  Dauna is outta there!