Summer continues, but here is an old A&J from 2009. At least the door is open, and the lights are on.
At Your Service
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162 responses to “At Your Service”
Good one, TR!
On the lighter side, a friend posted this on Facebook and asked me if maybe I might have seen him a recent race.
http://woodtv.com/2017/07/24/man-arrested-after-chasing-seagulls-naked-on-michigan-beach/
I told my friend, “No way, where would they have pinned their bib!”
At physical therapy doing knee exercises. I am trying to get two additional week’s in if I possibly can. I will do up to four sessions a week if can, that is most allowable.
Keeping on working on knees and not cancelling our travel until it is a no go for sure. We are supposed to be going to Port Townsend, Washington and Maine this summer, Atlantic and Pacific a month apart and most of the West and east.
Sorry to hear that news, Jackie. Said disease can be beaten totally or, at least, for a long time.
My MIL was diagnosed with just the crude methods available in 1947. She beat it back with only the initial treatment – also crude by today’s standards – for 24 years. As I tell my MBH when she worries about the genetic factor involved, “You’re 78. Even if you were diagnosed today and did only as well as your mom, you’d live to be 102. As detection and treatment methods are so much better today than they were in the 1940s, you’d probably do better than your mom.”
I am sure there can be a similar statement applicable to you, JM. Odds are that you will live out a normal-or-better lifespan anyway. Go for it! [And keep us posted.]
Since I am now 73 I already have beaten the life expectancy odds the actuaries used back in the 1980s to calculate how long I’d live. I was planning to last as long as my mother, my grandmother’s and my aunt’s, all of whom made it to 90s even with cancer.
I just had such a fun retirement Ghost and I were going to start the first week in August by heading to Port Townsend and the western states. Chemo and radiation were not part of it.
No, I will do this as publically as the knee replacement. If you can’t show humor through the horror it doesn’t inspire.
Wow, Jackie that’s a real kick in the head. I know you’ll keep a positive attitude and see this through to a good end. Keep on keepin’on.
I’ve been quiet today, due to having driven nine hours yesterday and getting up early today to keep dental and medical appointments and take care of other business. I got the call from Jackie this morning while waiting for a blood draw for labs. I spent the rest of the morning clearing the decks by rescheduling appointments, and then sitting in a dental chair for three and a half hours this afternoon. I will be returning to Oklahoma early tomorrow morning to be with my darling Jackie.
Little known fact: Ghost is a cancer survivor who has not only survived but thrived for almost twenty years. I expect nothing less from Jackie. Plus, I’m lending her my motto…”Non deficere.”*
*”Never give up.”
I too am a cancer survivor… 40 years! With Jackie’s can-do spirit… the support of her many friends… I am expecting to hear of her adventures for many years to come!
Going to bed. Didn’t hear from hospital or surgeon but it is just Monday. This was first I’d driven van in two months, Tulsa is 90 minutes away each way. I am tired.
Thanks for love and support. I am honestly wanting to have right knee replaced in October. I was looking forward to two good knees and legs same length.
Miss my Ghost. Love my porcine aviator. Pigs do fly.
Prayers to all that need them.
Good customer’s daughter had stroke at 47 – mind is sharp but the body (rt side) is weak.
Pray for all of us – we all need it one way or another.
Amen!
Jackie, OB, et al.: Amen. emb
As with emb, what they said.
And on a lighter note, https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20155693_10155098822829220_1497723673280206349_n.jpg?oh=9aab9c4109be4094e45668fea0a60ff3&oe=5A05B4A1