Of Page Protectors & a Scanner (& Hopkins visit #1)

Wednesday - November 14, 2012

While awaiting news from Johns Hopkins, I remain immersed in my project of digitizing and scanning the family archives.  Intellectually, I understand that this task is indeed finite but WOW does it seem infinite.  I am working forward ... crawling ... plodding ... toward that glorious watershed date of August 2003 when we went digital.  Prior to that date, I am methodically going through the photo albums, the correspondence, and the schoolwork -- selecting, weeding, scanning....  A cheerful refresher of all of our tremendous adventures as we moved from Arlington to Beijing, to Falls Church, to Taipei, to Hong Kong, back to Arlington, to Manhattan, and then back to Arlington!  When I find a loose photo, I am assisted by these changing locales as well as the state of the children's front teeth!  I am simultaneously scanning any Carter family photos that are somehow in my possession with the goal of uploading them to a shared family account.  This exercise is more than a bit addictive however the wide eyes and fixed gazes of the hounds have dislodged me from the scanner and gotten me out for some fabulous autumn walks.  Another crisp fall day to relish the vivid colors and soak up the sun.  Life is good!

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GOOD NEWS! Johns Hopkins has said yes. It feels a bit like I have been invited to the Haplo Bone Marrow Transplant prom. Now I am diving into the insurance abyss to make sure that everything is covered (and that we don't bankrupt ourselves)....

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And....... after much internet scrambling and telephone work by both Carolyn and myself, I have insurance clearance for a BMT at Hopkins AND have found an in-network lymphoma specialist at Hopkins ... with the result that ... my first consultation with this oncologist is next Friday (the morning after Thanksgiving).  This ball is rolling!