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Mum is going to have lung surgery Wed morning, then another (I assume on the other side) on the 15th. She'll hopefully be out of the hospital by the 20th. They're going to go and try to resect out all the lung mets. We're all very hopeful as surgical resection has worked well for her before (the liver surgery)
She and Dad went to Portland today for kind of initial appt with the surgeon, and we were all figuring that what with getting insurance approval etc this wouldn't go forward till like next week. So things moved faster than we were expecting!
I decided to drive up, I'm not sure how long I'll be able to stay up there, hopefully the whole time. If work gets antsy I guess I'll have to play it by ear. I'll be bringing my laptop and working remotely, so hopefully the hospital (OHSU) has good wireless!
argh, OK, I really gotta pack. I'm going to go into work till about noon tomorrow, then just leave from there, and head up the I5. I'll find a place to crash overnight probably in Eugene, then get up early to make it into Portland Wednesday morning. Mum is scheduled to start the surgery process at 8am.

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thanks all! I totally overpacked of course, the dangers of traveling by car, and being frazzled when packing.

Susan, I know I'll definitely have time to see you, Andrew, Pearl and Everett. That's a bright spot for sure! :)
If it's not too horribly inconvenient, maybe I could hit you up for a place to stay at some point? I'm playing that by ear right now, and will stay at least the first couple of nights with Dad in his hotel room.

I'm glad I'm going up tho, I could hear it in Mum's voice that she was happy I was coming up. I've been there for all the other surgeries, can't miss this one :)

Would love to have you stay anytime!!! I will be so happy to see you. Let us know what we can do to help! So glad to hear about the happiness in your mom's voice :) Cheering for you and hoping for a smooth procedure and nice comfortable recovery for your mom.