Packaging and Managed Expectations

So it is all about packaging.  Nothing is simple.  MEB had to have a patch to deliver some medication.  It took three days to arrive because it was not in their pharmacy.  It arrived to day and is the size of the tip of her finger.  It arrived in a package the size of a thank-you card envelope.  You know the size. 

Everything in Cancer World comes packaged.  Even the packages are packaged.  A bag of IV fluids are sealed and then  they are in a sealed package.  Anything that comes into the room has to stay in the room lest the package is contaminated and then can not be repackaged.  Lots of landfill is created.  No waste management here.

The news comes packaged as well.  There is the big package:

Your child has relapsed.

Buried inside of that package is the :  Your child must go into remission and these things make this happen. 

If you child does not go into remission, then  you must open this package and it has other things inside.

If you make it transplant here is your very special special box of goodies.  Best not look there until it is time because you really don't want to look now it might make you close package number one.

Hair Loss is in all the packages.