Everything takes extra time for us getting ready to go somewhere; with Mark and his broken ankle and two hammer toes fixed (1) on each foot, Paul who is generally slow anyway and then myself with the cancer and my foot in a boot. I'm exhausted just getting everyone ready let alone going to where we are going. Austin, Mitch and Chris have been really helpful especially with Mark. Paul has actually been really helpful also. This is the process we go through with Mark every time we go somewhere; to leave the house he uses his scooter to go to the front door, someone holds the door open, he can use the railing & the scooter to slowly go down the steps, then he gets in the car and someone has to lift his scooter into the back of the car. Getting back into the house is a little different. Someone gets the scooter out, he gets on it, scoots over to the front steps, someone hands him his crutch and his gloves and he hops up the steps, then someone lifts up the scooter to the porch he gets on and goes inside. As you can see it's a project. He is doing really well except for the boredom. Sometimes I would keep Paul home either because I was sick, didn't have the energy or was overwhelmed. See Mark usually would get Paul up and ready for the bus and work and now since he's been not weight bearing it's fallen to me to take care of him which is ok but with being sick I just did what I could.
I ended up getting an ingrown toenail so my doctor put me on an antibiotic. It wasn't getting better so I had to go to the foot doctor and have her cut the nail out. She extended the antibiotic. She also told me that one of the chemo medicines I was on the (Taxol) had a side effect of ingrown toenails.
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