Hello, everyone. I just wanted to let you know how we are doing. We got home at around noon on Saturday. When we pulled in the driveway, we noticed a balloon near the driveway. After we went in and looked out, we found that our neighbors had decorated the front of our condo.
We have the best neighbors any could ever wish for. Our neighbors Ginny and Pat collected our mail while we were gone. Our mail nearly filled one paper grocery bag. Ginny, Pat, and, another neighbor, Larry did the balloons. Larry's wife, Sarah, made the sign. It felt good to pull into the driveway after being away for so long, and we felt the love of our neighbors through the sign and decorations.
Our neighbors are some of the best cooks that you would ever want to meet, too. We haven't had to cook since we have been home. Ginny and Pat had dinner for us the first night home. Betty, Nita, and Sibby have brought us dinner the other nights. I think they are trying to erase the memory of all those frozen dinners that we ate while we were at Vanderbilt from our minds. They are doing a very good job of it.
We went to Mass at our church in Mount Washington on Saturday. Newly ordained, Father Nick Brown, was having a Mass of Thanksgiving for his ordination, and for the last year that he spent with us at our two parishes. It was a Mass of Thanksgiving for Mary Jo and I, too. It was so good to see all of our friends again. To shake their hands, give them hugs, and thank them for all of their prayers and support while we were gone.
I wish that we could give each and every person who prayed for Mary Jo and I a personal thank you. I cannot express in words on this blog what everyone's prayers and support have meant to us since last October when Mary Jo's lymphoma became aggressive, and especially since our odyssey at Vanderbilt began back in April.
Mary Jo is doing well. She is resting much better since we have been home away from our college kid neighbors, and Vanderbilt's Stat Flight helicopters that seemed to spend more time taking off and landing, than they did on the ground.
Mary Jo must be feeling pretty good. She has went shopping two days in a row. I'm feeling much better too. I have played golf two days in a row. I am amazed at how well I have played since I have been home. I played to my handicap yesterday, and four under my handicap today. I figured I would probably be mostly whiffing the first few times I played.
Our course is in great shape, and it feels great to be out chasing that little white ball again. I don't know what Mark Twain was thinking when he said that "golf was the ruination of a good walk."
Mary Jo's great niece, Jessica, is getting married on Friday night. Jessica graduated from the University of Louisville Medical School last month. She will doing her residency in pediatric oncology at Kosair Children's Hospital here in Louisville. Jessica will be a great doctor, and what a great medical specialty to go into.
Since Mary Jo cannot eat from buffets. She most likely will not be able to eat anything but cake at the reception. I guess that isn't such a bad thing, though. I will probably use Marie Antoinette's line a few times "let them eat cake". I guess fear of the guillotine kept anyone from reminding Marie that if they didn't have bread, they probably didn't have cake, either.
Mary Jo has an appointment with her primary doctor on Thursday. Dr. Barrett is going to recommend a cardiologist for Mary Jo to meet with here in Louisville. She has an appointment with her oncologist on Friday. Dr. Bhupalam will track Mary Jo's progress until we go back to Vanderbilt on August 19th for her Day+100 visit. When she will have a PET Scan, bone marrow biopsy and pulmonary function test. I was going to suggest that she needed a colonoscopy, too. But, Mary Jo said that I would pay dearly for that.
Thanks again for your prayers and support. Please continue to pray for Mary Jo's total recovery and a long period of remission. God's blessings on all of you.
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