Thanks Marty, Diane, Jim and Terri,
Yup sorry, I've been a little on the silent side lately.
We got home and your right, we just got into the relaxing and remembering the highlights and the not so highlights of the back to back roadtrip that, honestly, I didn't think I could do it. But, here we are now nearing the end of October. It's a burr and an half already, the leaves are nearly all on the ground now. I plan to do one more ride the mower over theleaves before my craftsman ride-on mower transforms into a snowthrower. I really don't look foward to the snow but, that's what I have to expect in NH from late October to early May with December to March being the coldest and most snowy months of the bunch.
I've had a very hard time getting back into the routine of the Veterans Hospital visits. A new Doc I've been seeing now is a foot Doctor (podiatrist) to care for my two big toes. It seems that I can't reach my feet as good as I used to. lol no joke, lol. So as it turns out this poor young lady has to grab my feet, one at at time and dig out the ingrown toenails. I used to do it when needed, but, like I said, I can't reach my feet any more. But my failing eyesight must have something to do with the loss of my toenail snipping skills. The old diabetes makes me a High Risk Foot Patient. Can you believe that, with all I can have go to a high risk, it's my big toes. Anyway, I told her I never use a shot of lidicain, so as she held my foot, I told her again, I don't need no stinking lidicain. WOW!! Maybe I'll have a shot or two next time. As she dug into my toe I think I felt that tool bump a few of my teeth. Man, did that hurt. I believe I'm more gentle with me then her. LOL
The cancer survivor group that I went to is over for me. I'd rather be with folks that enjoy the open roads and refer to twisties as threapy than a bunch of men that seem content with the meet and greet introduction that goes clockwise around the table in the same order that it did the week before. Again, I'd rather be sitting on a set above two wheels than a seat thea stays still on four legs. At least they could pipe in the sunds of a harley and maybe the smell of a little oil burning. The good news is I'm going into my third winter since my thymictomy surgery in Boston on Novmber 12th, 2009. Hard to believe it, I am now almost a full month on the plus side of the projected death date. Time flies, bucketlist gets low to no, so I put more stuff on the bucketlist. Anyway, this is also my first winter of three that I will not have to endure chemo therapy. So, I'm going to move my furniture around in my living room. I'm putting my recliner in the corner on the other end of the room and I'll have a veiw of the universe. I think watching the leaves fall off the same trees for three autumns in a row, now I'm goint to see the winter and the coming spring from a new prospective. I think the new vantage points me in about a South by Southeast direction.
Well, so long for now my friends and as always thanks for yourthoughts and prayer and it's my hope that all is well with you and yours.
your friend in Sunappe
Sam aka chappy