took you long enough

Winter with a vengeance. Big storm riding up the crest of the eastern seaboard - that thick gulf air coming into contact with out clean Canadian stuff - and the monster snow is coming. Better late than never.

It changes hourly, but its already been snowing for a couple of hours and going to do so till tomorrow afternoon. We checked at the hospital, and it is not that big of a deal to miss a treatment, it just gets tacked on at the end.

We are in the 6-10 ( its now been upped a bit ) but were we need to get to is in the 10 - 14 which has also been upped a bit. We will see where we are in the morning...

Dinner and update

• Turkey Meatloaf w/ cranberry ketchup glaze 
• Sweet Potato
• Cranberry Sauce
• Broccoli
• Field Peas

Chilis and spice and all things nice got taken out of Neil's diet today for the duration. As a rule an entire can of Rotel goes into my turkey meatloaf - she is on the only one with hot sauce in her bag. But tonight was just a couple of table spoons full in a pretty big meatloaf.

No curries for a bit, no sausage for a while - oatmeal is hip and bland is good.

Week 5 , day 1

This is going by pretty quickly. Last Thursday was out half way point - downhill from here. Which I bet is not something one should say about cancer treatment. It has been almost exactly a year since this all started, we found out the C word on March 19th of last year. Not the best birthday present ever - and things have zipped right along.

We have been just unbelievably lucky in all this. When you are around it the stories just seep out of the woodwork. This guy has it, this man at _____ has it, and Neil seems to be doing better than just all of them... Thank God, thank Ganesha, thank the ghost of Bear Bryant - you pick, but I am very thankful.

Sickness is different up here in the great frozen north. Doing this all alone has been , I'm not going to lie, tough. When brought up some people say the right things, and I am sure if I were to ask we / I could get some help - although others need it so much more than we do.  Some people say things that are so amazingly stupid that you question their humanity. And it is not like we need anything at all, really. But there has been very little warm and fuzzy about this. Blame me, blame Neil , blame New York , blame 1000 miles, blame time.

I will now do better at helping folks in this same situation. Little things matter a great deal - an old dog has learned a new trick!

Life Below Zero

 Temps dropped like a stone Saturday night, woke up to something like - 10 air temp, deadly wind chills Sunday morning. A fast in and out for us...

Went back out later , 5 degree is, but a beautiful day

Koda can only go so far when its this cold. His paws melt the snow when he walks, then it instantly re freezes in his foot .. so we did not go all that far.

C-c-c-anges ....

We snuggled in and watched a movie this afternoon PAN, which was no where near as horrible as the reviews would have led us to believe. Parts of it were a mess, but we sort of enjoyed it. Went  upstairs to wash Koda's leg, which does not take all that long . Back down stairs, switch back to real tv and GOBSMACKED by the news.

I was all " wrong to speak ill of the dead " for about a nanosecond, then broke into a Lollypop Gang worthy happy dance. Ding Dong the witch to many gay Americans was dead - Antonin Scalia was dead.

The Seven Worst Things Antonin Scalia

Said or Wrote about gay people.

Ill come back to this later on, I stared blogging to late, yet again...

After watching for a while I had to run across the street to the market's red box to return the movies we had, coming out of the store into the freezing early night air I saw this

Dinner

 Irish Stew

Which is really just regular slow cooked beef stew, but with Guinness instead of red wine. It was perfect for this raw frigid night.

Pre Valentine Sweet

Suddenly Winter

It was about 20 degrees warmer at the North Pole than it was here in Mendon today. That is really because all the cold air at the top of the world sort of tilted to the left, and the edge of the mass lading right on top of the Finger Lakes.

Where Koda spent most of the morning

Serious cold has mass. It can be a bit like water, something that you have to make your way through. It is not just as simple as going out for a walk, you push through it, using force. Thing is , it pushes back. Cheeks and ungloved hands last for about a minute in minus double digit windchill. Puppy paws sort of the same way - we were not outside all that much at all today.