RADIATION: THREE DOWN TWO TO GO AND HERE I AM IN ALL MY MODEST NAKEDNESS

Looking back to one year ago today I see we were into the third day of our eastern Canada travels and we Traveled Further On Water Than On Land that day.  As it turned out this was the best day of our whole trip and may very well have had to do with spending less time on the highways RVing and more time on a boat enjoying new scenery while someone else called a Captain did the driving.

Another mighty fine September morning.  So glad that heat and miserable humidity is behind us now for another year.  Don't have to worry about that for another ten months or so.  Well Okay the next couple days might be touch and go but after that......'Oh Boy Oh Boy':))

Another routine morning Jeep ride with Pheebs up to Goderich and back with a few groceries and a new pair of Wrangler blue jeans thrown in to boot.  Even splurged and bought a new belt.  Some days I am such an absolute spendthrift.  I think the last pair of pants I remember buying was at the Wickenburg Arizona TSC store about five years ago. I'm hoping these jeans and belt (also from TSC) will last me another dozen years or so.  Now how's that for being optimistic about my future eh.  Now don't get me started about the realistic side of things!!

Although I had my big boy pants on today Kelly decided to come along to the London hospital's cancer clinic with me this afternoon.  And I'm glad she did.  Nice drive down and using a different route now I have eliminated two out of twenty four traffic lights.  We were at the hospital early so had time to relax after checking in.  

A NICE NATURE AREA OUTSIDE THE CANCER CLINIC

KELLY DISCOVERS A CACHE OF FREE COOKIES

Of course being there early they called me early and it was the same radiation machine I had a couple days ago.  The lilac room.  Treatment seemed a few minutes longer today but everything went Okay.  I bought a new belt at Goderich's TSC store this morning so when the nurses tried to pull my pants down I told them to be careful of my new belt.  Of course they don't pull my pants down and that job is left up to me.  I only have to slip them down a few inches so they can see the target markers tattooed on my lower abdomen.  Of course they always have to adjust things and my pants seem to get pulled down an extra inch in the scramble.  Kelly waited outside the control room but managed to get a few pics with her smartphone of the monitors.  While laying on the radiation table today I thought to myself, 'well I'm past the half way point in my treatment plan now'.  Only two more to go.  How fortunate I am to be on this new five day plan instead of the twenty day plan I thought I was going to be on.

READING MY KINDLE WHILE WAITING IN THE MAIN WAITING ROOM BEFORE MOVING INTO A SMALLER WAITING ROOM NEAR THE 'LILAC' RADIATION MACHINE

KELLY TOOK THIS PHOTO WHILE I WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL GETTING 'BEAMED'

KELLY PEAKED INTO THE CONTROL ROOM AND SAID SHE COULD SEE ME ON ONE OF THE MONITORS.....ON THE OTHER MONITOR THEY WERE WATCHING SESAME STREET

YES THAT IS ACTUALLY A DIAGRAM OF ME....AND KELLY'S FINGERS

HERE I COME OUT OF THE RADIATION ROOM WITH A FOLDER TO BE GIVEN TO DOCTOR MENDEZ....I DON'T SEEM TO BE GLOWING MUCH YET

OF COURSE WE PEEKED INTO THE BINDER AND I TOOK A FEW QUICK PHOTOS OF WHAT WE SAW

YEP THAT'S ME IN ALL MY MODEST NAKEDNESS

WELL I GUESS THIS SIGN IN THE WINDOW MAKES IT OFFICAL....'THE DOCTOR IS OUT'

After the treatment I was to meet with Doctor Mendez but when we went to where he was supposed to be a sign said he was away for the day.  The lady at the desk took the blue binder I had been handed after the treatment and asked if we wanted to talk to somebody else.  Well not really so that was it and we headed for the Jeep.  A quick stop at Wendy's along London's Adelaide Street for a couple three dollar burgs and we were on our way home on a beautiful sunny September afternoon.  We rolled into the driveway about 4:30 and that was about it for another day.  Tired, but doing Okay...……..  

OUR SUNBURST LOCUST TREE CASTS EVENING SHADOWS UPON ITSELF

Kelly hasn't seen her daughter Sarah or her two Grandchildren Adara and Gabrielle for 6 years now.  Tuesday Kelly posted this to her Facebook page......Her Mother Loves Her Forever.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Pure Witticisms::

- I started out with nothing... I still have most of it.
- Some days you're the dog, some days the hydrant.
- I finally got my head together, now my body is falling apart.
- Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.
- If all is not lost, where is it?
- It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser.
- If at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished.
- The first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging.  
- I went to school to become a wit, only got halfway through.
- It was all so different before everything changed.
- Nostalgia isn't what is used to be.
- Old programmers never die. They just terminate and stay resident.
- A day without sunshine is like a day in Seattle.
- I wish the buck stopped here. I could use a few.
- It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.
- Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip round the sun.
- The only time the world beats a path to your door is if you're in the bathroom.
- If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would have put them on my knees.  
- Lead me not into temptation (I can find the way myself).
- If you're living on the edge, make sure you're wearing your seat belt.
- An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.
- It's not hard to meet expenses… they're everywhere.
- Jury: Twelve people who determine which client has the better attorney.
- Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.- What do you call a hippie's wife?Mississippi.
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