The most uneventful trip to Chicago yet, it couldn’t get much better. We didn’t have to be at Rush till 10:00 am so we missed the heavy traffic inbound. We were out of there by 1:30 pm, so it wasn’t too bad coming home either. Actually, I could just end the post here but that’s no fun. Not wanting to just sit for the two hours between blood work and infusion, so we escaped! Well, actually, we asked our Clinical…
Tonight, as Suzanne finished getting ready to relax for the evening she proclaimed “It’s a Good Day!” For her, in the scheme of her last eight months, it was a hugely big day. Since February, she has been on a mission of proving the Dr’s wrong that she would only “eat for pleasure and probably never speak more than a few words in a row”. Today was the sixth consecutive day that she ate 100% of her calories by mouth,…
I really struggled with how I was going to approach this post. As much entertainment as we got today, it could very easily be a post about bad judgment. Yesterday and through last night we received four inches of rain. That much rain is a guarantee that our bottom ground west of the house will flood and flow over our road west of the bridge. You see, on the other side of the bridge the road takes a dip and…
Most of us were raised by our parents and had siblings, brothers, and sisters that were an important part of who we are now. For some, you had a big sister, the one who taught you all that stuff your mom was too shy to talk about. But for the rest of us, the lucky ones, we had a big brother. It’s the job of the big brother to be the protector, the one who watches out for you at…
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…
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…
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…
Many of you have asked why my blog is called ‘Tasty Travels and Other Stories’? For a number of years, I wrote about our travels, the places we saw and the restaurants we ate. Most recently, the ‘Other’ and only Story has been Suzanne’s Cancer and her courageous efforts to survive. That changed this past week because we actually got to travel for the first time in over a year and a half. Our last vacation was visiting our son…
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…
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…