Hello Dear Friends,
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here, so I thought I’d give you a health update.
To begin with, this being the month of February and with Valentine’s Day this past week, we wanted to wish you love and happiness EVERY day of the year! This photo was taken pretty much at the time when our own love affair started. In fact, this has to be our very first selfie!
In the personal news department, we've had an exciting start to the year. Low immunities allowed Shingles to afflict me. Then, when I went to the local Urgent Care for medication, I contracted COVID-19, courtesy of another patient who was coughing and hacking in the waiting room! And since we share everything, Jim came down with it before we even knew that I had it. And that's despite us having every vaccine available. (Except for kennel cough, rabies, and distemper...and the vet is all set to give us those when we take Marlo in for his next visit.)
Happily, after five days of Paxlovid anti-virals, we're both on the mend. I still have pain from the Shingles, but I’m toughing my way through it.
On other news of my cancer, the last scans did show problems with my kidney stent, but we couldn’t do anything about it because of low immunities. The good news is that once I started feeling better, all the appointments were back on the calendar. I’ll be seeing my oncologist next week to go over the rest of the results of my scans, and I’m already scheduled for a stent replacement the first week in March.
As William Arthur Ward once said, “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
One day at a time. One foot in front of the other. I’m grateful, grateful, grateful. As always, thank you for your ongoing kindness and love and support. Your messages and cards are always a joy for us both. You ARE the best!