Sunday December 30 2007

Temple Peak

Wow, New Year's Eve tomorrow. Another year done and gone. When I look back now it has sped by, especially the last three months of being ill, thought it would be slow and it seems like its been the blink of an eye since that first doctor visit in October. It's all been on the fast track. Its two months now since the surgery. Seems things are going just as they said on the recovery and feel a little better in that respect every day.

Gina and I have conferred this morning and decided not to try to go to Jackson for my chemo in the morning. We have close to eight inches of new snow here plus what was on the ground. And the wind is blowing a ground blizzard. The sun comes out and then it all doesn't look so bad, but we know the roads up through the Hoback will not be nice, let alone the fact that the snow plows surely won't be out our way by 7 a.m. And this wind will really pile up some drifts now. (Remember Big Kahuna?) So now the plan is to shoot for going up to the hospital on Wednesday morning. The only important thing about tomorrow is that I had an appointment with Dr. Buys from the Huntsman Cancer Clinic (she comes once or twice a month) and I will ask my nurse if we couldn't have our appointment tomorrow on the phone instead - if she needs to talk to me personally. Or maybe my charts will be enough for her. It's just not worth sitting and worrying about. And the nurses have always told me if the weather is bad we can do the treatment a day or two later.

One glitch is that Edis and Nancy are supposed to arrive Tuesday night from Bozeman, so it may be them that take me to Jackson instead of Gina. Plans do go astray sometimes.

Joe's got lots of football so he's occupied with that. I've been reading through old correspondence files, specifically transcribed Edis' letters into the computer this morning. I glean information from all these old papers that will give me dates and events for "The Book". I get all that saved into the computer and it sure helps my memory a lot. Then when Edis visits I can give her her old letters back. I've been returning their letters as I record info from other people's correspondence. It's a good chore while being snowbound. I got the big Judi file all finished last night and another large bag of discarded pages for the trash.

Getting up late and leisurely sure does away with morning. Its lunchtime before I know it and never accomplishing much. I always sleep best early in the mornings so the rest is a good thing right now.