pain!

What a couple of days. The tumor scare set Catherine's health off — her UC responds to stress events — but this time the usual treatments didn't do it for her. It was as if she hadn't been taking the medicine at all. Yesterday, she called her office and said she couldn't go because she couldn't walk. It was too painful. That's when we decided to check her in to the hospital.

She's still there, and will be there through the weekend. They've got her on powerful powerful steroids and other medicine. Her suffering is worse than usual: the pain medicine they're shooting her with burns her veins so much that she wails like it's 1899.

What next?