A lot to catch up on !
Wow! The last entry I made to the blog was on April 20th. Shame on me. Now I have a lot of catching up to do.
We got back from our Indiana/Michigan Warranty trip and settled in to what would be the last two phases required for Kathleens battle with "the enemy" as she likes to call it. She has completed chemo with the last gig of that on April 5th. Surgery was scheduled for and completed on April 30th. The report is very good!!! Ninety five percent of the tumor had been destroyed by the chemo, the area of the tumor was explored, and the remaining five percent removed. The best news of all came when they let us know that after sampling all the lymph nodes in the immediate area, no additional "C" cells were detected. The early part of May to the present have been spent recovering from the surgery. With recovery having gone so well the final phase, radiation treatments, have begun on May 23rd. We will now count them down, 33 treatments to be done every working day that the clinic is open. Discounting week-ends and holidays we expect to be completed July 12th. The Dr's would like us to stick around the area for a couple of weeks following her completion of radiation and after a final exam we will be free to "hit the road".
During the early part of May to present the recovery from surgery period did not require many visits to the Dr's so we moved around some, from Goose Island Camp Ground to Black Hawk Park Camp Ground and now back to Goose Island. With the radiation treatments now taking all of June and some of July we have booked a solid month in to Goose Island so as to be guaranteed a spot and will once again bounce around between parks after our month here.
It is so great to have the flexibility to just up and move our "tininthewind". It is also great to be self sufficient from a electrical, water, etc. because of our on board systems. It is that flexibility and freedom from connections that allow us to take our house with us when we go on an extended visit. This Memorial Day Week-end we will be spending it "boondocked" in my brother-in-laws driveway out in the country from Waukon Iowa. Jim and Alyce's boys, their wives, and babies will all be present and a more enjoyable time will be hard to find.
Early in May I started thinking about how nice it would be to have a street legal scooter. I wanted it to be street legal but in reality have no desire to take it out on the highway. Street legal means that one can ride it around a campground. I wanted it to be quiet, efficient, stable, and most of all light enough to be man handled alone. I am going to do a separate blog comment about it with pictures so will save any further comment for later but just let me say---I love it!
Another separate blog entry I would like to do is to tell you a little about my inflatable bass boat. You remember the picture of it from our web-site when I posted it last winter. The boat was a Christmas present from Kathleen. We were at Blackhawk park, parked next to the water, a couple weeks ago and I got ambitious. Spent the afternoon putting the boat together, took it out for its maiden voyage and got busted by the DNR wardens for operating an unregistered craft. I will save the rest of the story for its own blog entry with pictures and all. Watch for it. Coming soon.
We have thoroughly enjoyed our motor homing life style and wouldn't trade it for anything. At least not in the foreseeable future. We continue to make plans for future travels and look forward to those we already have scheduled.
We finally had enough of a break in our Medical Appointment schedules to allow us to fly out to Seattle and visit with our Son's and their families. We did that between May 11th and 17th. This trip and getting reacquainted with our grand kids was long overdo. The trip was fantastic and it too deserves its own blog entry with pictures. Again, stay tuned, more to follow.
There you see! I told you I got a little behind. I will get the entries I mentioned above completed soon and then do a better job of posting on a more regular basis.
