Cape Cod

Okay - one more post for today. Last week I took a little break and drove up to my sister-in-law's house on Cape Cod. I wanted one last dose of summer! And I do love the Cape even if I go alone. As it turned out, Jackie's off season renter had just moved back in so I had some company. Her boyfriend, Greg, had recently purchased a 25 foot sailboat and he invited me to sail in Nantucket Sound. When we got out of the harbor, we ran into about 4 foot waves and we really started to pound them - spray breaking over the bow, etc, I thought it was great! But after a few minutes, Greg said that his boat wasn't really meant to take this kind of punishment so we turned around and went back to the harbor where we sailed back and forth in calmer water for a couple of hours. It was a good time!

And so, I got a chance to walk the beach and take a few pictures (I like to watch the sunset from Payne's Creek -here's a shot of it for you). I also saw an old friend who drove down from Boston and we had some good chowder and a chat. So - semi-retired life ain't so bad!

Labor Day Weekend

So just to catch up - over the Labor Day weekend, the entire Veit clan went to a camp up in the Poconos for the weekend. It was very nice and had a lot of activities - swimming, archery, a zip line, etc. To do the zip line, you had to climb a 65 foot pole to a small platform and then jump off! The line carried over a pond. David did the line a couple of times (made me more nervous than him I think!). Grampa Walt and my 6 year old nephews did, too! I chose the safer route of watching and hanging out by the water cooler!

Dave also earned the title Master of Disaster for the weekend. In consecutive days he managed to give me a black eye - an accident at the archery range - and break his sister's finger - via a well tossed football. So for the rest of the weekend, I insisted on a five foot radius from him!

Vicki's finger is healing...

Round 22

I can't believe it's been so long since I have blogged. Guess I've been busy! I will try to post a few today to catch up.

Round 22 was pretty straightforward although again long delays. I think I waited about 2 1/2 hours to meet with Dr. S. The problem was that he had to cover another doctor's patients and some folks evidently had some significant issues he needed to look into. He also mentioned to me that the back up may get worse before it gets better because there is evidently a new regulation that will require the chemo drugs to be mixed under a sterile hood. This means that MSK will have to source the chemicals from the main hospital on 68th street and have them transported to the clinic (where I get treatment) on 53rd street.

As for my treatment, my scans have been stable and the side effects more manageable for the last few cycles. I asked about re-evaluating my treatment plan - but that conversation will have to be at my next session this Thursday. I did tell Dr. S that, as much as I hate saying this - I'm willing to stay the course on treatment and not keep asking him for a break since it seems to be working and I seem to be coping. But I'm hoping he'll say I can take a break anyway...