I'm so happy to hear the positive news on Pambo's surgery    and so sorry to hear of your sisters diagnosis 

It is good that the cancer has been detected in it's early stages.  As you said, it is very treatable and with faith a positive attitude, she will be a survivor 

Thoughts and prayers for all of you. 

Ah, you love it when Pambo tells you that you are

Yes, it is a positive sign.

You would think that in the ICU there would be a little more comfortable furniture.

So, here is the latest: Pambo was released from the hospital earlier today. We got her back here to the hotel around 6 PM. Right now she is sleeping, so that is good. She looks and sounds a lot better than she did these last few days, but it is still too early to tell how well the surgery worked. The nerve was really irritated so it will take a bit for it to normalize. She did say the headache is a little better.

On the Laura front, she took yesterday off work and decided that she wanted to come hang out with me. We went and got some dinner then went shopping for a while. After that, she told me she just wanted to go get drunk, so I figured she deserved that much. We got her a room here at the hotel and went to the bar. Much to our chagrin, it was karaoke night, and it was as bad as we suspected it might be. However, by time some guy got around to trying to do Bad, Bad Leroy Brown and he only came up with about 1/3 of the words, we could take it no more.... decided to help him out. Yep... this was several drinks into the evening. Very quickly, we became the life of the party. People were actually requesting us to be their back-up singers. There was much singing and dancing. It was GREAT. My brother in law got there just in time for the Motown segment of the show. He was stunned. Later, he thanked me for getting her out of her funk for a while. Hey... least I can do. Tragically, there is a downside to such merriment... the next day pukey hang over. BOTH of us. I told her I was sorry about that, but she laughed and said she had a great time so she figured it was worth it.

She is still having a fair amount of pain, which is not unexpected, but is actually doing much better. I believe she gets the staples out on Monday. She was actually going to try to drive up here to the campus today to get her phone issues sorted out prior to her transition to Ericsson... which is going to be delayed until she comes back from short term disability.

That is good news. Now lets hope the 4 goes on down to a 0.

Yay!

  YAY!  That is wonderful!

Oh dang... Yes! Pambo was released back to work on Monday. For the most part, the pain has been down in the 1-3 end of the spectrum, which is a vast improvement. She did report a spike to around 6 on Tuesday after making her 9th phone call on the same issue. What could possibly make that happen you might ask... well, apparently Sprint was not expecting her to return until much later this month, however when she spoke with HR on Monday, they promptly terminated her as a Sprint employee so that she could be moved over to Ericsson with the rest of us. Ericsson however, didn't get the word. Since about 10AM on Monday, Pam has technically been unemployed. Her access to her Sprint e-mail and various other systems went down on Monday. Her building access card got shut down on Tuesday. She IM'd me a little while ago from her personal PC to tell me she was going to try to log in again, but nothing since and I don't see her logged in on the company IM.

As of yesterday, it seems that the plan is to get this resolved by next week. For the most part, it is just kind of annoying yet amusing. The really bad part is her Sprint medical / prescription insurance has also been terminated and her Ericsson benefits of course have not started.