How was your weekend?

My unbelievable trivial re-excision just continues to be fun -- now I've developed cellulitis. Everything around there (and I'm talking, area the size of a basketball) is red and swollen -- in fact the breast that had the lumpectomy is now swollen much larger than the untouched breast. Weird. And did I mention painful? They've ordered me more vicodin, but I have to be pretty miserable to put up with the fuzziness, plus I'm not sure vicodin is as effective keeping my temp down, and when it gets to 101, Brie always starts to worry.

Busy weekend to be sick -- a bunch of friends volunteered to spend hours in the hot sun both days, helping us scrape and sand the house. We also paid Allison and Collin to come help. It was enormously sweet to have people offer to help us out like that - but it also meant, with the best will in the world, it was impossible to give my arm any rest, as I needed to be up, answering questions and letting people know what needed to be done next. So I was uplifted by my friends' kindness, and exhausted at the same time.

I'm upstairs, and the camera is downstairs, but maybe tomorrow I'll post a picture of the house. It's pretty well scraped, which means it looks its worst -- and all we have to do now is sand, wash, prime and paint. No problem!