“You asked me to give you this this morning. This is your daily summary that you use to remind yourself of important facts. I’ll be back in in a bit with your breakfast.” After Amy swept out of the door, Leigh looked over the composition notebook in her hand, and noticed that it was titled ‘Important things to remember’. She turned to the first page and started reading. June 21 Mark has noticed my short attention span and difficulty in remembering conversations we’ve had, so he suggested that I start keeping a journal. I did do that, but after a trip to Dr. Klein, and resultant diagnosis, I decided to make it a notebook that will be a reminder of important things I don’t need to forget. The first thing that has happened, that I know I can’t allow myself to forget, is that my latest tests have shown a relapse in my breast cancer. To make it worse, Dr. Klein did CAT scans and a MRI to try to find the reason for my memory lapses and has found a tumor on my brain. He said that it is situated between my scull and my brain, putting pressure on my brain and causing fluid to build around it. It is the size of a pencil-top eraser right now, so he wants to refer me to a neurosurgeon to talk about options. He’ll be looking into a doctor close to Pine Grove so I can move back to help with mother. MarK says he’ll move with me to help us both out.
