Today, Nadine’s old friends Paul and Julie stopped by for another visit before they return home to Colorado towards the end of the year. Julie, who is a dancer with an expertise in Alexander Technique, did Nadine a little favour and taught her how to improve her lower half. In the picture, you can see Paul watching Julie working on Nadine’s numb feet.

Nadine and I got used to our new situation and managed to establish some routines now. After being educated by a caretaker a few times I’m able to do most of the necessary things by myself now.

Tomorrow, we have to call the hospital and ask wether the next round of Depocyt can take place on Wednesday. If yes, Nadine will go stationary again from Tuesday to Thursday but will be released just in time before Christmas.

After two days of organization and rearranging things we had a quiet Sunday. Except the caretaker who is teaching me how to do things correctly and Nadines’s colleague Annette, who came by for a brief visit, we were alone the whole day. We’re getting used to the new situation and environment  and doing pretty well so far. Okay, it wasn’t quite amusing that Nadine was delivered with diarrhea on Thursday, but we survived that problem too…

In the picture above, which was taken early today, you can see Nadine in her new homebase having her morning tea and listening to some quiet music:

P.S.: She listened to the whole album which you can access here:
Nap Eyes – Thought Rock Fish Scale

In the picture above you can see the part of our flat where our couch used to be until yesterday. I had to disassemble it and bring some parts down to the cellar in order to gain space for a hospital bed. This means that Nadine will come home again tomorrow after the first round of her new chemotherapy with depocyte – that’s the name of the substance I wasn’t able to recall in my last post.

But this also means that Nadine’s mobility is really bad: walking or standing is completely impossible and even sitting stable is very difficult and demanding. Her condition might improve but we weren’t given much hope. Nevertheless we try our best and hope that it becomes possible for her to spend at least some parts of the day in a wheelchair. With the hospital bed being her main base soon, I wanted to have it in the living room so that we can share the days together. And she will be located right in front of our big panorama window which has a view she always loved.