Things I Never Wanted to Learn

I had a teacher in fifth and sixth grade who told me I was a lazy student. I went back to visit my favorite teacher, Mr. Antry for several years and Mrs. Jonas would always say, "oh, it's Lisa, are you still doing only what it takes to get by?" I resented that at the time, but she was right, I was a lazy student--I was a good student and kept straight A's and almost perfect attendance, but I could figure out exactly how much I needed to know and what I could skip to keep my A's. Second semester sophomore year in college, I really screwed up and underestimated the curve--learned my lesson hard! But for the most part, I could figure out that if nuclear half-lives were going to be 10% of the final, as long as I knew everything else, I could skip that! Same with history, I was an engineering major until my last semester senior year so I wouldn't have to take European history, even though I knew I was graduating with a degree in psychology--a loophole only a lazy student like me could figure out! Unfortunately, I fear Pierce inherited that talent...

But if I had to make a list of things I never really wanted to learn, cancer would be at the top of my list. I wanted to be a research doctor so I could find a cure for diabetes and help my brother Tom, but then I realized that medicine is too many years in school. Some other things I never wanted to learn are the the finer points of HVAC and refrigeration--it's amazing what you have to learn in the food business--besides the names and symptoms attached to every food borne illness; the pros and cons of male circumcision, and how to operate a lawn mower--I still can't do that and NOTHING is going to make me. I can't imagine cutting grass will ever save someone's life, so grass cutting is best left to experts as far as I am concerned!

But you know, when you have to learn something to save or better the lives of your kids (like the whole circumcision debate), you do it and you do it as well as you can and as fast as you can. I have never read more things that I so totally don't understand in such a short amount of time. Now I also know enough about cancer and chemo to be dangerous... I think we are ready for a Thursday meeting with our oncologist to go over recommended treatment that we expect to start on Tuesday. I am glad Bo had time to heal, he will still have steristrips on all his surgical sites, but at least he isn't in pain any longer.

So I don't expect many updates before Thursday. I am going to try to get caught up at the store--we are way busier than we are supposed to be in July--that's a great thing, though, better to focus on lasagna sometimes than scary medical statistics I don't understand! Thanks again everyone for everything, Lisa