Cathy and Tim arrived from North Dakota Monday. Today Cathy was scheduled for gammaknife radiation of her brain tumor at the University of Minnesota Hospital. She was to report at 5:30am. I volunteered for transport duty. So at 5am we left the house and by 5:30 she reported in.
Cathy and Tim were quickly escorted to a preparation room. When she left for an MRI at 7am Tim and I were dismissed until noon. We went to Key's restaurant in St. Paul for breakfast, cruised 2330 Commonwealth where the curmudgeonette grew up, dropped in on Rollie Martinson at the seminary, circled the state capitol, visited St. Paul's Cathedral and the cathedral of salvage equipment better known as Amble's.
By 11:00am we were back at the hospital. About 11:20 the doctor came out apologizing profusely because the radiation equipment was not working. He said that a technician was working on it but her treatment was on hold until the machine could be fixed. At 1:30pm he announced that they were giving up and her radiation would have to be rescheduled. Cathy and Tim in their placid, mature way said "Well, we'd rather wait and know that it is really working." No anger about driving 600 miles in vain nor about the days taken off work. Those two are really a class act. I'm so proud of them.
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