Milestones

Several milestones occurred today.

The first is that today is our 29th anniversary. We'll be holding off celebrating until next year on our 30th.

The second milestone is that Paul now has two dots on his guest badge. When the patient first arrives, he is issued a guest badge. There are stick-on dots denoting "classes", similar to what we went through in school. The first dot (green) denotes that the patient is undergoing treatments 1-11 and is a "freshman". After treatment 11, the second dot (yellow) is issued -- "sophmore" status. After treatment 22, the third dot (blue) is issued denoting the "junior" class and finally, after treatment 33, the long awaited red dot is issued to the "seniors". Graduation can't be far behind. Kind of corny -- yes?

You may be wondering why the dots are issued in multiples of 11 treatments. The reason is that the standard treatment course is 44 treatments. Paul will only be receiving 42 treatments. He has a specially designed treatment plan because of his artificial hip. He is currently attempting to do the complicated math to determine precisely when to stick on the remaining two dots :-).

So far, so good. More later this week.