Vacations and Bears in the Woods

Hey all. I haven’t blogged in some time so I thought I’d post a quick note. Since my last entry, I had another round of chemo (Round 17) and a CT scan to check my progress. My scan was “stable” again so I asked Dr S when I could get a break. He wants to stay the course for a couple of more months. I must admit that I’m getting antsy for a break because the side affects kind of grind on you. But I’m happy for the stable scan.

Last week, we went to Cape Cod for a little family vacation. As usual (we’ve gone to the Cape many, many times over the last 25 years or so), I enjoyed the salt air and the nice water. The weather was a little cool but we enjoyed it nonetheless. Cape Cod league baseball, walks along the salt marsh trails and good "chowda" is always a winner with me! We were planning to go for a few days to Cooperstown, NY to see the baseball hall of fame this week, but I unfortunately had one of my periodic medical breakdowns so we postponed the trip. Nothing serious but the side affects catch up to me for a day or two each week, and I‘m really pretty useless during those bouts. It’s unlucky that I had one right at the end of the Cape trip and so I couldn’t do the Cooperstown one. On a good note, however, we’ll probably re-plan it for the fall when there may be really nice autumn foliage!

This week David has one of his Richmond buddies staying with us for the week and I took them for a good walk in my beloved woods today. Caught a few frogs, jumped a few streams and kept an eye out for the bear reported in the woods this week. That bear’s been roaming around those woods for years now and does no harm – but I did give the kids the “how to handle yourself when you see a bear” instructions – and it kept them on their toes!

I go for Round 18 on Thursday. Can’t wait! ;)

Hope you are all well….BB