Tylenol helps

Since our Day uptown, we have been lying low waiting to carry out our next assignment. Barbara has remained completely fatigued and spends most of the time dozing in the bed in an alcove in the small room that she regards as hers. Its door is about ten feet from the door of the big bedroom where I have been sleeping on my own. This morning, when I got up and went to see how B was doing I found her standing there looking forlorn and almost in tears. She said that her head hurt where the operation had taken place. When asked what the pain was like, she said it felt heavy. With my usual sang froid I dug out the instructions that she was given when she was discharged from MSKCC. As instructed, I gave her 650mg of Tylenol. Then I called S-K and asked for the doctor covering for Dr. Gutin. By the time he returned my call, some twenty minutes later, B's pain had diminished. The doctor said that such pains were normal and told me what signs to watch for that would require his attention. Mimi (Barbara's sister) came by with lunch and I asked her to stay on while I went out to run some errands. Later in the afternoon, B confessed that the pain had returned and that another dose of the Tylenol had cured the problem. I urged her to keep me better informed but who knows whether she'll listen. Ed