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Karen is home, Karen is home! And, of course, in her right mind. She's back to being Karen, wonderful Karen.

Reta and Jan and I decided about noonish that it would be OK to take her home, she has done so well for the last three days.

When we have to take her back, we will. Until then, she will be where she wants to be, home with me... and the cats.

I did get there early today, and she wasn't even awake for a while, and then she did eat most of a roll that I had brought in for her from Daylight Donuts.

And then the usual litany of visitors, including our friend Jenny from OK City, who Karen worked with for years; she brought along her digital camera and took a few shots... then she went to Walgreens and had them printed... and then I scanned them, heh. Click on the little ones if you want to see big ones, of course.

After we had decided, I let the nurse know, and she was going to let the doc know and get the medications ready.

So Reta and I headed home with most of the junk and got her room ready... Reta is going to sleep in a recliner in the guest room where the hospital bed is set up. I changed the filter and water on the H₂O machine and then we sat back and waited for Jan to call... she was supposed to call when Karen woke up from her post-prandial nap... but she thought that I was going to come right back, and she didn't have my number. Finally Karen woke up and gave her my number, and Jan called and I was on my way there.

We were out of there in about fifteen minutes, and Karen was so neat on the way home... she thought that she was never going to see the world from a car window again, much less home, heh.

And she is so, so happy, and so are we all, and just hoping that there will be many more days to be happy in.

None of us are fooling ourselves... we know what will happen. We don't know when... and we'll live each day like it's going to be the last one.

I am going in to work tomorrow, probably from 07:00 until noon or maybe 13:00... we'll see how that goes.

Fuck cancer. Just fuck it.