At the foot of the hill
by aunty EM
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Such Great News!
My scans last week showed NO CANCER ACTIVITY!!! I will finish my Immunotherapy treatments over the next six months. Both my oncologists are very optimistic. Yesterday our daughter and SIL had a ...
Seems like
everything happens at once. We’ve been just drifting along here for a few weeks. Me with my every-other-week treatments, Bob seeing physical therapists and getting massages on his neck. (He cr...
Now here's some news!!!
Our name came to the top of the wait list at the Assisted Living village. We knew we were getting close. bit when we got the call, it took me by surprise. It will be next week before we can mee...
My granddaughter
is into theater. Matter of fact she majored in theater design in college. However, life got in the way of a career in her field and she hasn’t been active for a few years. We are lucky to have...
Wonderful weekend
in Colorado as we got to take part in our eldest grandchild Ben’s wedding. I promised him I’d be there, one way or another, and dance at his wedding. And I really did, if you can call it dancin...
Hello. It's me....
I haven’t updated for awhile so I’ll give you all a bit of an update. Might be all over the place. MONDAY IS “JUDGEMENT DAY” for Chester (my cancer). I have to go to Billings and have a PET sca...
22 years
Miss you, John.
Today
We leave around noon today on the 5-hour drive down state where my husband and I will be staying until early February. Daughter is driving us and she will stay until Tuesday when I finally get m...
Ready or not
Christmas is this week!!! And while we wait, we also wait to hear from my cancer team as they try to pull the whole plan together. The holidays are not making planning any easier. I will have...
Here we go again
Off at noon to the city. This time I meet with two of those who will be handling my case. Oncologist and radiologist. It’s my understanding that there will still be no treatments yet. It’s be...
December 8
With a big push from our daughter, we have a little tree up and a few of our favorite decorations out. Still don’t have the apartment totally put together. I have ordered a little curio shelf com...
LEFTOVERS
Rhonda brought all the Thanksgiving leftovers in last night and we enjoyed the feast again with the family. Today we head back to the city. I told Bob he didn’t need to come, but he thinks he ne...
Quiet Thanksgiving
After son Mike and Jeri went away and my getting the report from the doctor on my tests in Billings the week before, I was almost in a trance on Thanksgiving Day. Bob and I drove out to Rhonda &...
And now
our Colorado kids are visiting us in Montana. Back in May it was the Montana kids visiting us in Colorado. So much has happened in the last seven months!!! I want to make some real entries here ...
Beginning to deal with it
A couple of weeks ago I was diagnosed with lung cancer. There! I’ve said it. Tests and travel will be the focus next week.
The last day of October
It is just past dawn here in Big Sky Country. It’s overcast and frosty. We’ve been camped here at our daughter’s place for seven weeks today. I have been amazed at the aforesaid Big Sky day af...
News
I have some very good news today. As you know, my husband had a bad fall back at the beginning of July badly injuring his neck. A vertebrae was cracked and the muscles damaged. Since we moved ...
Back on line
After nearly a month, I finally got my computer back. I have missed reading the posts on PB. We are entrenched here at our daughter & SIL’s for the time being. Our belongings finally arrive...
Count Down
Only three more days to get ready for the packers to come and get our stuff ready to go! Yes, they pack it all up Thursday and the truck comes for it Friday. We won’t see it again for probably ...
Always finding something new to worry about
Waking up at 2 AM is getting to be happening way too often. And shutting off the mind is not happening. Today I thought about lots of “little” things I need to do something about. We will not h...
Some good news
Bob got approved by Medicare for a portable oxygen concentrator. Life will be so much easier now, not having to drag that ugly bottle around, load it in and out of the car. and always being awar...
More Happening
Since I last wrote, Daughter has secured a lovely senior-friendly apartment for us to move into. The current tenants are having a house built and have been promised they can keep the apartment u...
So much happening (part 3)
In the meanwhile, we have met with our landlord, In Home PT, canceled two doctor appoints, sent regrets for a friend’s 80th birthday party and our first post-Covid meeting of our senior club and...
So much happening (part 2)
Along toward morning they finally got him moved to probably the best Trauma Center in the metro. They held him there in ER for several hours before they got a room ready for him. Immediate test...
So much happening Part 1
Since last I wrote. We made the decision to pack up and move to Montana. While we were there visiting our daughter we got on the wait list at a very nice assisted living facility. Daughter beg...