Happy New Years’ Eve!

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Happy New Year’s to all of my friends and family! I hope each and everyone of you has a safe and happy New Year. May 2017 bring  much wanted change, happiness, love and good fortune to everyone I care about, for myself, I hope that the doctors figure out what to do with the new soft tissue tumor found on my spine and that the immunotherapy eventually works its magic.

Good bye 2016 and hello 2017, I hope you are a much better year.

Merry Christmas!

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​​Merry Christmas to all of my friends and family! I hope this holiday season has been one of joy and love for everyone. 

I was hoping that Jack would have had some reaction to Christmas Snoopy, but I should have known better since we do have the laziest Jack Russell on the planet.

I have to apologize for not sending out Christmas cards out or participating in my normal Christmas activities, but lately my pain has gotten progressively worse and my doctors are still trying to sort how to deal with this new development. It bothers me to have spent this December unable to write, I am in too much pain to sit long enough  to type.  I am hoping that January brings me a new pain management plan so I can get back to doing the things I enjoy.

You are all in my thoughts and I hope your Christmas Day is wonderful and special.

Sweet Lulu

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Sweet Lulu, what more needs to be said? Nothing.

Stanley, not so compliant

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There is Stanley running away, not wanting to be part of the antler experience. We did get him to finally cooperate, but it took a lot of pleading and Jack’s help.

Reindeer Jack

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LOL. Jack was so annoyed with me, but I guess his love for me is stronger because he sat there while I clicked away. The look of disdain on his face was priceless, I wish he could talk. LOL poor Jack.

Oh Christmas tree….

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I haven’t written in a few days only because I have been so tired. Today was my first round of immunotherapy and so far so good, though Doctor Mullally did tell me that extreme fatigue tomorrow is well within the realm of possibility, but ironically that is a good thing, because it would show a reaction, something we are hoping for either now or in the next few weeks.

Our son decorated the Christmas tree yesterday after driving me to Boston round trip for what turned out to be a wild goose chase. My discharge papers from the hospital after my cranial surgery had a MRI scheduled for me, but to my distress when we got to the hospital, I had gotten the date wrong, the date printed out was December 4th, at 12:00 a.m, that should have been a clue, no one schedules a MRI for an outpatient on a Sunday at midnight, but I didn’t catch that, so I was very upset with myself for not being more responsible. But what actually happened was that it was a data error and I had never been scheduled for a MRI at all. So basically my son and I went to Boston, had a nice lunch and when we got home, he decorated the Christmas tree.

Today he took me to my first treatment, we had another nice lunch waiting for my prescriptions to be filled, and he took me home, he loaded up the dishwasher, we watched Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, (highly recommend it!), and then he went home.

An interesting two days, but I am lucky to have spent great quality time with our son.

The Christmas spirit is growing in Blandford

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Our son got out all of the Christmas decorations while we were gone, put up the Christmas tree and brought down the Grinch. He also promised to help me with the lights when he comes back over, since this year I can’t do what I used to do for Christmas and that’s okay. Our daughter is coming home soon, I am sooooooo looking forward to having her back home, she’s also great at decorating, so between the two of them, our house will be decorated to the degree they like and that’s all that counts.

Tis the start of the holidays in New York

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My mother and I did a quick look see at Sak’s Fifth Avenue, Rockefeller Center and Saint Patrick’s, the New York classics.

Loving : a movie review

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My mother and I went to see Loving this morning at one of her favorite theaters on the Upper Westside. We loved it. The direction, the acting, the history and its message make it such that it should be required viewing for everyone. We both knew of the Supreme Court Case, but it really hits you after the first half hour, which passes by without any drama, quietly, when the police sneak into the house under the cover of darkness to arrest the couple for sleeping together, as to why that Supreme Court case was so impactful.

I highly recommend seeing it, it needs to be seen.

The gorgeousness of my mother’s hibiscus

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How gorgeous are they? Believe it or, these are the first blooms she has gotten all year. Inside or out, at least she finally got blossoms, the wait was more than worth it.