Lock the Hubs!

(This is Suzy again, adding my 2 cents worth.) Steve and I like four-wheel driving. And we absolutely love how four-wheel driving gets us to some amazing places. It started with my 1982 Firebird, and me having to go to the bathroom. We were on our first vacation together, on our way to Telluride. In […]

Weekend Fun

Suzy and I decided a little early Christmas cheer was in order. Lee and Heidy came over and helped us decorate the tree on Friday night. Lee did all the heavy work — moving furniture, getting the boxes out of the garage, assembling the tree. It’s really a beautiful tree, and it’s nice to sit […]

7.2 Two Down, Five to Go!

The glorious weekend is over and Monday starts another week of chemo and radiation. Before I go on, I have to thank Gail and Mike. On Sunday night, Mike P. sent me a cartoon. I’m sure he didn’t know how perfect the timing was, but Sunday nights are really tense, leading up to the start […]

F-ing Covid

This is Suzy. If you’re looking for my usual light-hearted humor, you’ll have to look elsewhere.) I’m sitting here in the hot car in the Mayo parking lot, being pissed at everybody in this country who won’t wear a mask. Everybody who thinks covid is not a big deal. Everybody who is tired. Everybody who […]

7.2 A Bit of Normalcy

My first week of treatment was completed a couple of days ago. Not sure what to call the first weekend after the first week of treatment, but it was great. I felt good all day Friday. Suzy and I went over to Lee and Heidy’s and had pizza, wings, and beer. It was great to […]

I’ll Drive

(This is Suzy, just chiming in.) I’ve become a bad driver. Not sure how bad (you’d have to ask Steve), but I’m definitely out of practice. Before the pandemic, I drove at least a few times a week. To art class or the fabric store or my quilting group. Sometimes I’d even go to the […]

7.1 The REAL First Week of Treatment

My last post was titled the “The First Week of Treatment”. I now realize that it was misnamed and poorly thought through. For a week to be a week, it has to have a specific beginning and end. This is how I am thinking of it. When I worked, it started Monday morning, or Sunday […]

7 – First week of treatment

The Fleury family (like many) prides itself on being right. When the kids were younger, Suzy made red challenge flags like the NFL and placed them strategically around the house. If someone said something the rest of us doubted, up went the flags and off we went to the desktop computer to look it up […]

6.4 Last of the Pre-treatment Planning

No Halloween costumes at Mayo this time, and no goody bags of Halloween candy. (Suzy always steals all my chocolate anyway.) Everybody is down to business. I went to the Physical Therapist Monday to improve the range of motion in my neck. Radiation will create scar tissue, so they want me as flexible as I […]

The good

It’s pretty easy to focus on the bad and shitty things that are happening to me and Suzy. And I probably have expressed a lot of this going along. For this post, I want to focus on the good. There have been many things that I need to be thankful for: GTC, I am really […]