Nadine’s former teaching colleague John, who survived a tumor himself,  wrote her a longer letter which included the drawing pictured above. It shows a certain part of the Danish coast where he and his partner bought themselves a farm house. Well, me and Nadine were fabulating about similar things sometimes, although we mostly fancied a place somewhere at the Mediterranean Sea.

But if you are diagnosed like Nadine, your perspective on life changes drastically. All that counts now is the near future, and this means three more sessions of radiation therapy until Wednesday. On Tuesday afternoon we are going to talk to the doctors about further treatment which will almost certainly include another chemotherapy. Nadine is supposed to be relaesed from hospital on Thursday and will have a short break first in order to regain some strength.

I am returning to work in part time next week, so I will be out of the house on Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday mornings . We are currently arranging that friends or family members come along on these days and join Nadine for cooking a meal together or take her out for lunch. I wouldn’t be comfortable with her being alone for eight or nine hours and having to do all that stuff on her own – not yet.

P.S.: When Nadine is returning home and I start to work again I won’t be able to maintain my frequency of a daily post – take this as a good sign and a step towards normalcy.