Re-Routing

Quick Update:  After my second major detour, I think I will be back on course soon and going home today.  My overall white blood counts are back in the normal range!  We are still waiting to find out where my neutrophils are and to get the okay from the oncologist.  But they have started my discharge paperwork.  Even better, I will be going home with no drains, no IVs, no PICC line and no other type of foreign tubes coming out of my body.  After that, the next step will be to reschedule my mediport placement and first chemo.  I am hopeful that will be this coming week, but again, waiting on the oncologist's office for that piece of the puzzle.

Reader Challenge:  How many more different metaphors or idioms could I have included in the above paragraph?  I included "major detour", "back on course" and "piece of the puzzle".