Sunday, November 27, 2016

Taking my time

I spent 3 days up at Mike’s for Thanksgiving.  He has some friends from Alaska visiting.  We had a good feast and a nice hike the next day.  I headed home yesterday as he needed to pack to be working out of state again for a couple of weeks, and he planned to leave very early this morning.  I was wearing pretty much all my layers of sweatshirt/sweater/jacket while up there, and begging for a fire in the woodstove even during the day.  I made one the first morning I was there, and after that the guys jumped up to make the fire whenever I started for the wood stove.  I’m out of practice.  A house can be expected to smell like smoke some when using a wood stove.  Right?

I’ve just been hanging out with the cats other than that.  And also healing.  I go in Tuesday to start the meetings and simulation for the radiation.  I don’t know if that is when they figure out the settings, or when they decide if I’ll need drugs to (mentally) get through this.  Actually, most of this has been much easier than I could have expected.  I almost feel like an imposter when I mention I’m a cancer survivor.  So, I will report here after the appointments on Tuesday.  I do believe I am in a radiation study where I will receive fewer but stronger treatments. 

Driving back down to Mesa from Williams I started out in several heavy layers of clothes.  First order of business when I got out of the car here was to peel out of most of them as it was 70* here.  The cats were happy to see me.  Tomorrow I plan to drive out to where I’m moving the RV in a couple of weeks and make sure all is still ok on that end.  Then more sorting and moving and getting rid of stuff in the storage units.  Plans only go out to December 15 at this point, the date I’m planning to move.  After that, I’ll start again attempting to figure out what I’m doing with the rest of my life.

7 comments:

  1. All good news! You have a lot to be happy about. As you can see, we are traveling very slowly and not sure when we will get over to your neck of the woods.

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  2. Looks like you are enjoying so great times, and nice to be back in warmer weather.
    I heated 3 of my homes with a wood stove and loved it, especially the smell of the wood fire.

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  3. I'm with you. Smoke just has to be part of a wood stove.

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  4. I'm with you. Smoke just has to be part of a wood stove.

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  5. You sound cheerful and that makes me happy. Glad you are back in a warmer environment.

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  6. Another Reader11/28/16, 4:49 AM

    You are getting a lot of practice sorting through storage units. I need to do that in the one out in Surprise. It would help to someone behind me, saying "just throw it out!"

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  7. Sounds like you continue to make progress with so many considerations. Good for you! Looking forward to hearing more about your move and choices. Welcome to the warm weather, we are having wind and cold rain at the moment. Wish we were there!

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