Day 71

Today ranks as the worst day of our lives.  We went to the doctor in the morning and he told us that Ellen as cancer.  He's set us up two doctor's appointments on Monday.  He was singularly uninformative about how bad it might be.  I suspect it isn't good since she's being seen by doctors immediately.  I'm really having a hard time dealing with Ellen's diagnosis.  They say that we won't know how bad it is until after surgery.  She has to do chemo and radiation before that.

Afterwards we kind of killed time because it was so early.  We went to Walmart for drugs and then ran the dog.  Lucy did an amazing amount of retrieves.  It may have been because it was only 40 degrees.  After that we bought Lucy some treats at Tomlinson's and then went to breakfast at the Icehouse.  After breakfast it was late enough that Lucy got some good treats.  Bacon and eggs and ham and eggs.

After that we went home.  Ellen was looking over the papers they gave her and found out that they had given us someone else's papers.  So it was back to the doctor's to get it sorted out.

On the way back Ellen wanted to stop at Lowe's.  It was 12:45.  Traffic was backed up onto the freeway at both Brodie and William Cannon.  So we drove to Davis and made a u-turn.  I have no idea why.  On the way home from Lowe's we stopped at the yougurt place because I had a craving.  It was pretty good.

When we got home I went out to work on the train.  I finished all of the power wiring for the base layout.  All I have left to do is connect the ATX connectors if I ever get around to ordering them.  That's quite a milestone.

Ellen is cooking stuff for the party tomorrow.  I'm going to read the paper and then watch Gold Derp and zombies.