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Last of the current series; one more maintenance/booster series to go next April. I will see the nursing ladies a couple times before hie-ing off to AZ in Dec because I will be getting my port flushed every 6 weeks until that time. In the meanwhile one of the ladies there is interfacing with the Mayo Hospital Outpatient Infusion Clinic in Scottsdale where I will get one or two more flushes before returning to Cache Valley in the spring. One cannot just present at the Clinic there without being associated with an onc doc on staff. Hopefully, I will not require any extra services from them. If anything untoward transpired we would hit the trail for home and the more familiar surround regardless of the winter air quality. (Untoward means an autologous stem cell transplant.)

So, since I am back into regular society--actually for this maintenance stuff I have never left--I will probably be less regular with these missives. I have already enjoyed tapering back onto reasonable quantities of alcohol. And the social schedule in fall here is mighty good. It has included football games including a very special tail gate group; jazz concerts; rehearsals for the Kicks band; dining in/out with friends; a wine tasting (read: swilling) group; family birthdays--yes, I am now on the downslope toward 80, and my daughter on the same slope to 50; the weekly jam group which is actually starting to have its special moments (may there be more!); a quarterly Sunday brunch group; and maybe one more fishing trip--if the feds will open up Lake Powell--when all back there come to their senses. Need I go on?

We have been very lucky so far this fall in that it has been wet. I can see snow on the peaks as I type this and one hopes for a hard, wet winter, especially since one won't be here! This kind of weather keeps the air beautiful.

So no news will be good news.