Chance Meetings

• Saturday, March 7, 2009 4:31 PM, CST
Another quiet weekend at home. Both Mike and Arianne have suffered most of the week from this terrible cold that keeps getting passed from person to person. Fortunately I have avoided getting trapped in it's lair. As the family's designated driver, I can't afford to get sick.
Yesterday was Mike's Avastin infusion at Kaiser. If you have never visited a chemotherapy infusion center, there are many reclining chairs, one after another, where patients are set up to receive their infusions. Sometimes patients are there on their own, but often next to them are their significant others. Funny how we often just smile at the person next to us, but rarely strike up a conversation. Yesterday was different. Across from us was another married couple around our age. All four of us were initially interacting with the friendly nurse, and eventually the wife ask me where we were from. As it turned out this couple use to live in our same neighborhood in San Francisco, and were also raising teenage children. They both had such a great sense of humor, which made our appointment very enjoyable. It's funny how these little chance interactions can be so nourishing to the psyche. While the husband didn't have the same type of cancer as Mike, as a couple they are still going through very similar circumstances.
Take care everyone, and be open to these chance meetings.
Love. Dan