Saturday, 02 October 2010 -- Day 286 (299)

Stress caused by sadness doesn't seem to have the detrimental physiological affects that stress caused by worry.  Even w/ all the stress of mourning, I never got ill.  Now, after a couple of weeks of worrying about Kenzie, I have a cold.  Despite not feeling well, I had to go to Mankato, MN, about 1 1/2 hours away to get Kenzie's Crohn's medicine from the FedEx store there.  I know that seems strange, but Mayo Specialty Pharmacy shipped it there from Rochester b/c Kenzie needs it first thing Monday.  FedEx doesn't deliver here on Saturdays, and it has to be refrigerated so I spent most of my day in the car.  The 1970's were being featured on the classic rock station so I listened to a 1972 taping of American Top 40 w/ Casey Kasem.  1972 was a great year.  I was in 2nd grade; Mom was 42 and already a four-year survivor of ovarian cancer.  My only worries were .......well, as an eight-year-old, I didn't have any worries.  It's no wonder the music of the 70's has the power to make me feel better.