Although got up pretty early, mostly rested today. Sleeping pretty good. It was quiet. Started some of the symptoms of the chemo on the way home last night including a little shoulder pain, but it was mild. The thing that doesn't seem to get much better is how much my eyes hurt after each treatment, like very bad eye strain, for several days afterwards. That was quite miserable last night and all day today. Lots of eye drops and cool cloths over my eyes. The thing is that this is when I want quiet time to read or watch TV or just mess with the computer and its very uncomfortable. So there's my whining. Watched an interesting movie anyway, "The Boy With The Green Hair". In all these years, even though I'm a movie buff, I've never watched that one for some reason, but really enjoyed it today. Perhaps a person just isn't ready for certain movies but later, sometimes much later, can delight in the story and performances.
Before lunch time I heard an engine again and went to check it out. Another snow plow was in the yard!! This time it was Mark with a big green dump truck and a pretty big plow. He and Joe visited for a while then he cleared out the big icy bumps in front of the garage door and enlarged a couple of areas for parking or getting turned around, as well as clearing out the lane and the road in from the county road again. Everyone is just taking such good care of us, it's hard to believe. Maybe they heard about Joe's truck and know we shouldn't park my car out by the mailbox so nothing happens to it. Someone mentioned that us being stranded or really snowed in with no transportation could be life threatening. That's a little dramatic, but basically true. We still would have the snow machines. Maybe I could trek to Pinedale with the sled to shop.
Today was warmer, partly cloudy with plenty of sun. It snowed all night last night and quit this morning. We got about 2 new inches - Joe said 1/2 an inch. Each time the dogs went out they needed to be rubbed off with their towel. They love that. Sandra called this morning and she said they had 5 inches, and they are only about eight miles from here. We had our usual good visit and discussed politics, conservations easements, solar panels, the airport, their cabin at South Pass, border control, the one North America or one world theory (neither of us think it can work because as Sandra said somebody's uncle is going to be sitting out in the shed making a bomb), and other various subjects. Cousin Maryanne called this afternoon and it was so nice to talk to her. They all seem to be doing fine.
Joe and the dogs went out to the mailbox and brought in today's mail. In a little while I'll pay the bills on line that have come in. Joe thinks the truck rustlers took his big tow chain and kept it, so we need to report that to the insurance adjuster. In order to do yesterday's blog right this morning, I googled a lot of the medical definitions in the CT scan report, and read up on them. Printed out a 10 page article on what seemed to be the best information about the liver lesions to understand that better. I haven't spent much time doing any research so far. I haven't been able to focus on that kind of thing for long and retain it anyway, but that is getting better now.
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