No news is good news?

Dr. Keate didn't call last night. We sat around biting our fingernails for about 4 hours before giving in to the idea that he wasn't going to call at all. We've been promised a call after 6:30 tonight.

If it means anything that the doctor didn't call (which it might not), it would be a positive sign, we decided.

In the meantime, I'm learning alot from the American Cancer Society page about Colorectal Cancer

The other thing we need to focus on is keeping his job. If anyone knows anything about employment discrimination law, please get in touch. So far, I've learned that he needs to put in writing his diagnosis and request "reasonable accommodations" for his treatment and recovery. The accommodation he needs the most is time off. It will mean less money, but whatever. I don't think he can be fired for taking unpaid leave. That was good to know... The other question I have is whether he can still get the insurance that his job offers. They told him about the policy when he first qualified; we didn't think he could afford it with his preschool teacher salary. That seems like such a shortsighted mistake in retrospect.

Shortsighted is the word of the illness, I suppose. All of our planning is in weeks or months. Today we get CT results, next week he talks to the surgeon.