I have grown to really like the radiation staff so I took a picture after the treatment today. I will have to do another on Monday to get the other staff. Elianne in the centre is the senior technician and she said she always blinks in photos, but not in this one!
Today I got a ride to the hospital with Bill and on the way home we stopped off at his house to pick up a quiche that his wife had made for me. She made it extra creamy so it would slide easily down my swollen throat. Thanks Karen and Bill.
I haven't had many congratulations about my new motorcycle purchase but I should explain that for me it's a huge incentive to get well again. As a 16 year old, for me a motorcycle was my passport to freedom since I lived in the country. Riding 2 wheels with or without engines has always given me great joy despite some risk. I often tell people that riding a motorcycle isn't dangerous but falling off is. Like many adventurous things in life it's mainly a question of acquiring the best possible skill.
Cheryl actually sees the wisdom of embracing life rather than avoiding risk and cringing in fear of death. I may have helped her along with this recently by reminding her of some of Carl Sagan's ideas. For the first 15 billion years the universe existed I was dead, and soon I'll be dead for unknown billions of years until the end of time, so I'm not going to waste one moment of this brief flash of time that we are privileged to experience. It's just basically seeing the big picture and if you want to read more about this I would highly recommend the book "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" by Carl Sagan.
My son Mike is home for the weekend taking care of me while Cheryl is in London with her four sisters. Her youngest sister Della is having her first art gallery show. The title of the show is "My Mental Illness is Driving me Crazy"! So it's going to be a guys weekend but no beer drinking for me. That will have to wait till Christmas!
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