Day 74 Gifts to my Nurses

In order to celebrate the end of my 33 zaps, I will be giving Steve and Amy and Cassy the radiation nurses and Michelle the oncology nurse and Dr. S all thank you gifts. So, for those of you who know me well, will know that I like to give homemade Martha Stewart gifts.. but when it comes to the actual execution of home made things, I am not so good. I have great ideas and can figure out great creative solutions, but I am always one day late to actually pull it off.
So this time, I have been planning ahead and trying a few things out. I actually went to marthastewart.com and looked for easy ideas.
Lee even helped me with some of the shopping and the ideas. Thanks Lee, you know that I hate making decisions!
So, this afternoon I made some chocolate peppermint bark and packaged it up with some pretty bags and put it inside some nice holiday mugs. Then I spent some time drafting thank you notes to each of them. I feel like although I have seen them every day for 7 weeks, because I can't talk, I don't really know them very well. I am in the door in my johnny and on the table. My mouth is clamped so all I can do at that point is a thumbs up or thumbs down to any of their questions.. "Did you have a good weekend Carolyn?" thumbs up... "Did I get your hair in the clamp, Carolyn?" thumbs down.... "Carolyn, we are going to do an xray this morning, ok?" thumbs up...
Not exactly a two way relationship. I know that I am one of 100 patients a day and I will be out of the lives next week, but they are my only nurses, and I will always remember them.
Cassy- hoola girl on Halloween, beautiful smile, always positive
Steve - examines my sunburn everyday and recommends lotion, hides the new People magazine for me each week so that I can read it first, could be gay (?)
Amy - she's the boss, loves to talk about shoes. Went to Harvard square to the secret dansko shoe place. She adjusts the collameter on the machine every morning, I have no idea what that is.
So, thanks to my nurses, they were terrific!