Coming from SLC where we are spending the holiday with my daughter and sister-in-law. Yesterday was my port flush and the brain now firmly reminds me that it is time to update the condition my condition is in. Which is, as they say, pretty good. Which means that nothing has changed. Still with the neuropathy, and the arthritis. Still managing both. Finding out that alchohol is pretty good as an analgesic which works well on both of the types of pain generated by these two maladies. My deceased father-in-law was the model for this type of pain management. He never really got loaded, but by late afternoon was pretty mellow. Don't want to make too much of this: I am not even boozing every day. Just saying that when I have a whiskey-soda in the evening I can walk up stairs normally.
After Jan sees to her hair tomorrow, Jan, I, and her sister will drive to the Great Basin National Park and thence to Ely, NV. Then the following day to Carson City NV across the lonliest highway in the US. A short time at Tahoe and thence to Bishop, CA and the backside of the Sierra Nevadas. After a couple days we will make our way to Vegas for a few days. All of this is provoked by Jan's cousins who have decided on an impromptu reunion. There are at least a half dozen of them--Bishops, Coxes--and they are all fun to be with. But Vegas for 3 days??? In July???
The ides of August, about the time of my next flush, will mark two years since my initial diagnosis. Just noting....
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