Friday, February 19, 2016

Visitors on the coldest weekend of the year



Over the past weekend, our Nephew Michael and his Fiancée Rachel returned back home to Virginia through a snow storm after staying with us for 2 special but extremely frigid days.  We truly loved having them in our home and in our lives.  Once they were gone the house felt empty and silent.  Both Michael and I are addicted to the website Duolingo.com.  Michael is brushing up on his Spanish and I have started learning German.



It’s always a bit rough in the days immediately after our visitors go home.  A bit lonely. A bit sad.  People often assume that it’s stressful or taxing for us to have visitors, but the reality is that we love it.  I guess we can attribute that to the caliber of family and friends we have visiting too.  We are so lucky to have such loving and caring people in our lives.
Mike is a hard core M fan. So we made sure he got his first visit to the shoe.



Of course, we like to be on the move too.  We’re counting the days until we can get the RV out of storage and back out onto the road.  We’re looking at the travel catalogs and plotting some special destinations.



I’m coasting until the end of March with absolutely no doctor appointments.  Yea!!!! But Johnny is continuing with his bi-monthly chemotherapy treatments.  After three more treatments he will undergo another set of scans.  His Oncologist, Dr.  Mark Segal told him at our last appointment that his tumor markers are down.  This is fantastic news!  If his scans come back clean in a few weeks that will leave us with a lot more treatment options.



Johnny continues doing his bi-weekly hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatments, nightly green juices, exercise and ketogenic diet.  Together we will pursue all possible pathways of creating balance – body/mind/spirit – to destroy the tumors and keep them from coming back.

 

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