Tasty Travels & Other Stories

A major failure of the Bruns-O-Matic occurred this morning as a malfunction in its internal clock was discovered.  I don’t remember such a failure within the system since was put into service some 24,856 days ago.   Preparing to leave for Chicago, the Bruns-O-Matic inaccurately calculated the departure time by exactly one hour.  Looking through system logs, I found a time adjustment made last Monday while visiting Indiana for the Covered Bridge Festival but also found that an adjustment was later…

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Suzanne is over the hump and halfway through her clinical trial. Things continue to be pretty routine when it comes to her treatment; blood work, wait two hours, treatment, and head for home. Of course, this week had to be different. As I shared before, Suzanne’s thyroid is not doing well through all this. The original radiation & chemotherapy did a number on it, and now, the trial drug Keytruda (that we aren’t supposed to know she is getting) seems…

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M – I – C . . . . K – E – Y . . . . MOUSE. How many times in your life have you sang those letters. Every time you do, thoughts of a fun place and time come to mind. Watching Wonderful World of Disney on the television; Disney cartoons in the movie theater before the show; and maybe a visit to the Magic Kingdom itself, the Walt Disney Company is known worldwide but I didn’t…

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I couldn’t decide how to open this post so there are two for you to choose from. OPENING #1 – Travel Tip: Don’t drive to or from the downtown Chicago area on a Friday that is the start of a long holiday weekend. Our trip was twenty minutes plus both going and coming from Chicago yesterday. Suzanne commented that it was the first time in all our visits that we arrived late. By my watch, three minutes, LOL. OPENING #2…

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Have you ever woke up one morning to find your feeding tube completely out and laying next to you? Probably not, LOL! Well, that’s what happened to Suzanne the day after her last trip to Rush. Let me rewind the last 8 months to bring you up to speed. Suzanne originally had a feeding tube placed last December because her radiation treatments had made it too difficult to swallow. At that point, it was considered to be temporary. Over the…

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In sporting events we are always looking for an old record to be beaten; fastest time in an Olympic event, most majors for a PGA golfer, individual career runs or goals, (and for Suzanne) highest score for a bull rider. We all have our own individual records we keep mentally or on paper; the fastest time in a marathon, the best round of golf, the time it took to mow the yard, (and for John) number of beers sampled. Monday,…

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Wednesday was our sixth visit to Rush for Suzanne’s PATHway clinical trial. As usual, many Doctors are always anxious to see her while she is there. Her oncologist now only visits with her every other infusion, and this was the one. Very happy with all that he is seeing and always comments that her blood work comes back perfect. This is important to him because the trial drug Ketruda does cause many body organs to malfunction including the liver and…

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