Grammy and Poppy on ice skates pulling Makenzie and Connor on sleds on the ice rink in front of our house.
We had wonderful visits from our kids and grandkids over Christmas time. Marrie and Michael arrived on Sunday but had to leave after skiing on Wednesday as they both had to work Christmas Day in Grand Junction. Molly and Barry and the grandkids also arrived on that Sunday and didn’t have to leave until the following Sunday. Heidi and Jon flew into Durango on Tuesday and out on Sunday. We had a super time with all of them! Hope you and yours had a blessed Christmas.
Joanie and I drove to Albuquerque on Monday for my 3rd round of chemo yesterday – Tuesday. My CEA level dropped again from 39 to 22.5 after only two rounds of chemo. The first one produced a drop from 50 to 39. So it appears that this new regimen is working quite effectively and quickly so far! We are encouraged! ( So for the friends we visited in last April’s trip to California in conjunction with our three days in Redding at the Bethel Church- which I intimated was kind of “goodbye trip” – I suppose you now will think I was “hollering wolf”. We may just have to make another trip some other time in some other year!)
Joanie and I have rented a place in Anthem, AZ – a pretty new community about 20 miles north of Phoenix for a couple months beginning in mid- January. It is about an hour from Makenzie and Connor and Barry and Molly and about a half hour in the other direction to my Dad. It looks like I will be able to receive my next 3 chemo infusions at the Phoeniz VA hospital. Hopefully I will be able to get back into a little better shape with more outdoor hiking and biking there without risking more pneumonia here with the frigid aair we’ve been having lately ( -12 recently). It’s snowing again now and it’s hard to believe in less than 3 weeks I may be nearly done with snow shoveling for this winter- although late March early April can still easily show me what I was missing .
Wishing you all a very Happy New Year ( or as we say in the chemotherapy infusion room – one patient to another – “Have a New Year!”
Love, Jerry
P.S. If you ever wonder when you check the categories in which I post my blogs – when you see 3683 – it just means I forgot to check one of the real categories, which I have to go back and do for each and every post. I used to edit them when I found that they defaulted into category 3683, but I guess I’ve let a few slip in there and it seems kind of silly to edit old posts now just for that. I do appreciate comments that people have sent that have corrected information about authors of songs or photo credits and I usually try to edit those to correct or include credits I’ve ommitted.









