The calm before the storm

These weeks of relative quiet before my dad begins treatment are proving to be harder than I thought. He's doing better day by day and while we still have someone helping every morning, I'm only going up to see him once this week. With less to do, I've begun to worry about the details of the treatment.  When will he begin the chemo? How many days a week will he have to go, and for how long?  How will he feel? Will he be okay in his own apartment?  Uggh, the list goes on and on.

Right now the logistics of getting him to chemo are seemingly impossible.  I would expect that he won't be able to or have the desire to drive himself back and forth to the treatments.  This would mean Todd or I would have to leave Binghamton, drive the hour to Norwich, pick my dad up and drive another hour and a half to Syracuse, sit with my dad during the chemo, and then reverse the route.  It would be a full time job.  After a while I'd expect my dad to not feel so hot, and who wants to ride an hour and a half in a car when you're not feeling well?

So, we're contemplating moving my dad to Syracuse during his treatments, and possibly permanently.  Yet another task that is proving to be difficult.  My dad is on disability and currently lives in subsidized senior housing.  We love where he is, and ideally we would like him to be in a building that is similar to what he has now.

Yesterday I drove to Syracuse to scope out the neighborhoods of some of the subsidized housing I'd found online.  Yuck.  The neighborhoods we're sketchy and the buildings were nowhere near as nice as what he has now.  Kind of what I expected for a more urban area.  There are also two buildings near to where I grew up, and they are both nice, but one has a year waiting list and the other won't take anyone under 62.  He'll be 61 in March.

Luckily. my mom is on the case and late today she found a place that looks okay and may possibly have an opening in February.  The application is in the mail.

Moving my dad in the dead of winter to Syracuse should be so much fun!