NBA PREDICTABILITY

MONDAY After my morning appointment at Mayo Clinic, Linda and I drove up to St.Paul to spend the afternoon with Allison and her family. This helps restore some sense of a normal day to our routine. Rochester is a nice town surrounded by very well kept farmland, a growing community with a lot of health care workers, unless they work for IBM. This is all well and good, but even someone with an even personality like me might go a little nuts after a time. As to my physical health it might be best to describe it on a "scale of one to ten". I learned this from my nurses. Are you having any pain? Yes, I have a headache. Can you describe your headache? Well, I've had worse. Can you put a number on it? I guess it's not that bad after all. I was always good with numbers, but ambiguity is a problem for me. Honestly, the care we are receiving is excellent, the nurses are terrific as you might expect. It would be nice to draw a path for my ongoing treatment, yet that is like predicting the NBA finals. If you have paid attention to the series then you know what I mean. Just when you think you have a plan it changes. Sunday morning Linda and I went to Mass, not at the same time as we could not plan even that. This is a good day. Peace to you all, Gary

Update on Dad

Hello friends and family, I wanted to give an update on the past week. After my dad's chemo he was able to leave the hospital and go back to the hotel with my mom for a week. They enjoyed sitting at the church gardens and going on walks each day. The Kinneys came to visit who is a dental school friend of his and Toni and Ann spent a day visiting as well. Tuesday he was put back in the hospital to treat an infection which tends to happen when a person has neutropenia which means no immune system. He is feeling much better today and more like himself. I am not sure when he will leave the hospital but probably in the next few days. He will meet with his doctor in two weeks to decide the next course of treatment. My mom is going on her daily walks and her sister Brenda spent today with them and is staying the night with my mom. Love, Kimber