We have arrived

One of these days I’m going to write a blog and leave all the mistakes my fingers make.  It would be a test of your guessing ability.

I packed up the car and drove to Susan’s house where her boys helped load her things into the car.  We were off! 

Susan drove and soon got used to my car.  We stopped and had lunch at a Bob Evans, actually we had breakfast for lunch. 

We soon arrived at the ferry to take us to Put-in-Bay.

Here are pictures of us on the ferry.

We arrived about four p.m. or so.   It took two loads on their cart to get our stuff into our room.  Of course that included food, etc. 

We were up late eating chocolate, playing computer games, there was some giggling involved. 

We shared a king size bed which worked fine.

I got a report from Teddy – he is not terribly happy but having two people to sleep with is much more interesting than just one.

later….

Getting Ready to Go

Susan came with power tools and all kinds of parts and pieces and moved the LifeStation box from the counter top to the wall.  Don’t know why my picture is fuzzy.  No, I don’t want to read the book anymore.

This way Teddy can’t step on it again.

Susan and I are going on a vacation leaving Sunday.  We are staying in a fancy hotel on the shore of Lake Erie.  There is a pool and a hottub.

There is also a refrigerator and a microwave in our room so we are taking some food. 

We will be back Friday.  If there is WIFI I may post and then again I may not. 

Lory and John are back from their vacation to FL. They will be dogsitting Teddy.  That involves taking his cage and his bed and his food and his treats and his leash and comb and brush and some of his toys.

Me, I’m just taking a minimum of stuff like pills and a couple changes of clothes and hats and scarves to cover my quarter inch of fuzz. 

I’ve been busy all week making lists and losing them and trying to remember what I will need.  My brain is already on vacation.  Lucky me, I can blame chemo instead of old age. 

We plan to have a good time.  There is something about large bodies of water that is soothing and life affirming.

Later….

Cancelled Chemo

Well, not completely cancelled, just put off for a couple of weeks.  My blood  count was low so I just got Zometa (bone strengthener) and a Neupogen shot (peps up my blood).  Of course, I had arranged for rides to and from chemo.   I had to call my ride home and move it up.

It turned out to be no big problem.  I really don’t mind putting off the chemo for a while.  I should have guessed my blood was low, I have been feeling like I need two naps a day lately.

Teddy was glad for me to come home and let him out of his cage.

My new Nook arrived today.  I was waiting to see if it works before I send the old one back.  So far it is charged 100% and I have moved a book to it from my laptop.  The book is on the Nook! 

Guess I’ll have to get busy and send the old one back.

later….

 

Sorry about time lapse

Sorry I’ve been so long getting another post put on here.  Nothing special happening.

Teddy did go meet a new friend.  They did the doggy thing, sniffing etc.  Then Teddy realized there was cat food on the back steps. 

If I tried to feed him cat food he would probably refuse.  Snitching it is altogether different. 

So he didn’t play with the beagle, he just kept sniffing all over the yard for more food.

 

Lory is doing this introduction because she and John are going to dog sit for me while I take a vacation with Susan the 20th of May.  I’ll be gone from Sunday till Friday.  Teddy will drive them crazy. 

I went shopping at a Thrift store this week looking for something I might want for this vacation.  All I found was a small suitcase looking thing with wheels and a long handle on it.  When I opened it to check I found a very pretty bowling ball inside.  What a find!  I think I have five bowling ball/gazing balls in my yard now.

Friday is another round of chemo so I went grocery shopping today.  I didn’t take a list so I probably forgot lots of stuff. 

My hair grows into a little fuzz which then falls out the second week after chemo. 

I have had a bathing suit for quite a while and may get a chance to use it on this trip.  I wondered what to put in the left boob side to make it look symmetrical.  I finally settled on a pair of black panty hose rolled up and pinned inside.   I just don’t want to scare anyone. LOL

We have had rain but no more alerts or warnings. 

My Nook died a couple of days ago.  I took it to Barnes and Noble and they confirmed that it was dead.  It is interesting that they put all the instructions on it for you to read – except when it dies you can’t get to them.

I had saved the sales receipt so it will be replaced.  I am to send the old one back to them and they are sending me a new one.

In the meantime I can read books on my laptop computer.  The one I just finished is “The Help”.  It was made into a movie but I don’t see how the movie could be as good as the book.  I found myself sitting up till after midnight to read it.

In 1960 I was living in Gainesville, FL.  I had a job at the University of Florida and rode a bus from the trailer park where I was living. 

One evening I was on the bus when a woman with two small children and a bag of groceries got on.  There were no more seats in the front half of the bus so I got up (to shame the men as much as anything else) and gave her my seat.

When I looked toward the back of the bus there were plenty of seats in the back.  This stupid Yankee went way to the back and sat down. 

The bus came to a screeching stop and the bus driver got up and walked back the aisle.  He looked me over and looked at all the people in the bus.  He finally just shook his head and drove on.

None of the black people in the bus appreciated what I had done and I’m sure the whites didn’t either.  This was all before I noticed the law posted at the front of the bus listing off the law about where people could sit. 

I pulled a lot of other dumb Yankee stuff in the three years we lived there.  I guess I’m still a dumb Yankee.

later….

Weather

Tornado warnings, sirens, thunder and lightening.  I live in a corner of a county so it is tricky to know whether the warnings apply to me or not.  Turns out it was at least 10 miles south of me. 

There have been two or three inches of rain so for today and they expect two or three more inches tonight.

The sump pump in the cellar is working.  It isn’t at the lowest spot in the floor so I know there is a big puddle.  I used to go take a dust pan and scoop the water into the sump pump. 

Don’t think I’ll do that.  I think I will open the little vents in the glass block windows and turn on the dehumidifier.

There is also a flash flood watch but that doesn’t bother me.  I’m on high ground.

This morning I went to get blood drawn and then went for a few groceries.  I also mailed a couple of bills.

In the mail I got an envelope of old pictures and papers that my sister found while cleaning out their house.  Going through them was a trip into the  past.

Don’t know why I thought about this today, maybe looking at the old pictures reminded me of other things from the past.

When you have your 80th birthday the White House will send you a birthday card if you ask them to.  So when my Mother’s birthday was coming I wrote a letter asking for a card for her.

This was in 1992.  The first President Bush was in office.  When I went to visit her on the big day she was very excited.  She told me she had received a birthday card from “Barbara and what’s his name”. 

She really liked Barbara because she was a common woman, someone you would like for a neighbor, and she didn’t dye her hair. 

What a fun memory.  Happy birthday Mom.

later….

 

 

Rainy Saturday

This second round of chemo has left me with more energy and less aches and pains than the first one.  Don’t know if it is due to the Crestor pill I took the night before or not.  I’ll take another one next time just in case.

Friday I went out to lunch with Susan.  I had a small hamburger.  Then I picked up the mail at the post office and went to the barn.  Several of my good friends were there and I got lots of hugs.

We have been having thunder storms.  Thank goodness Teddy doesn’t get terribly upset about them.  We spent this morning on the couch.  Nothing like curling up under a quilt with a warm dog on a rainy day.

The other evening Teddy came to me trembling all over.  There seemed to be no reason for it until a few minutes later I heard it – the dreaded “CHIRP” of low batteries in a smoke alarm. 

We spent a lot of time going from room to room and waiting for the sound to happen again. 

Finally found it in the bedroom.  It was the carbon monoxide detector the Red Cross gave me several years ago.  It was plugged into the wall socket and I had never given any thought to its batteries.

At least it took two double A batteries which I had on hand.  The whole thing reminded me of smoke alarms which I have to get working and have someone put up on the wall.   I don’t do ladders.

later….

 

Griping

After all the excitement of the emergency vehicles on Friday Teddy is bored.  He has barked at me several times to come play with him.  He also looks out the window and barks now and then.

I don’t feel like playing.  The aches and pains aren’t nearly so bad as last time, thank goodness.  I think the Crestor helped. 

Eating is a challenge.  Nothing sounds or tastes good.  The couch looks good tho. 

My lawn got mowed and trimmed Sunday.  It looks really nice. 

Since I now know where my liver is I feel jabs there sometimes.  Don’t know what it means, could be cancer growing or cancer shrinking. 

Years ago I was diagnosed with migraine.  I found it hard to believe since I never had a headache.  All the other symptoms were there, sensitivity to light and noise, dizziness, a feeling that everything was going WRONG.  I actually had a small stroke at age 28.  I have a tiny blind spot in my left eye and my right side didn’t work well for months. 

At that time I had a four year old, a two year old, and a newborn.  I had no choice but to take care of things.  It was probably good therapy. 

So the headaches I get now are a surprise and a new thing for me.  I take Vicodin and that helps.

Enough griping – go play Angry Birds.

later….