Monday, October 20

By now, 2 1/2 weeks since I last sat in my office, I am ready to be released from my rest and recuperation. The good news for the last week is that my sister-in-law Mary came to see me. The bad news was that when she took me for my 2 week check up with the surgeon on Friday, I had not healed as much as any of us wanted, and she was not able to remove the drains from my right side, which meant still not being able to drive and go back to normalcy. Not that I have ever been normal, but you know what I mean. Tomorrow we go back to the doctor's and try again. So, it was nice to have Mary here to keep me from getting too grumpy. Saturday she and our friend Trudy picked me up and we did some gentle sightseeing in the afternoon and out for a yummy mexican lunch at a place on Capital Hill.

On Sunday Bert was off so we went for a drive thru rural Virginia. Beautiful day, but summer is definitely over. We went to a little town named Waterford, founded by Quakers in the 1700, who then all packed up and left in 1840's because they were pacifists and abolitionists, so the town was preserved just about how it was when they left. This little house, built in 1815, is only $679,000 so Bert said he will buy it for me.

Then we drove to Harper's Ferry, Bert made me sit on a bench at the train station while he and Mary walked around. I got a little Vitamin D while enjoying the sun. We love Harper's Ferry, and never tire of going there.

Today Mary and I went for my last diagnotistic test, called a Muga. They inject radioactive isotopes into you, and then take 3-D pictures of your heart. Pretty dang cool, actually. Last hurdle that had to be cleared for chemo to start on Thursday.

Tommorow, that hose is coming out, dang it. I gotta go back to work!