Tomorrow is 4 weeks post-surgery and Ed is doing terrifically; in essence, he is just as he was before the surgery but with a much better blood count (up to normal). Thursday, the chemo treatments begin in Bellingham. It is a 2-hour infusion, as I understand it and he expects to combine it with the 5FU in the pill form. And we will see how that goes.
He has been working with George over at the Orchard House most days and they are making sure progress. Ed is currently installing the tile countertops in the kitchen while George is doing prep work on the floors. The new bathroom is almost completely installed. (These details are especially for Mia and Annika who were up here working on this all in early February). The kitchen cabinet painting is all done.
We have had Froylan and Millie visiting; Ed and Froylan went to (I think) grade school and (for sure) high school together in Orange County. They have kept up that friendship for all these many years (unlike my experience of keeping in contact with no one I ever went to school with, pre-college, anyway). Their visit inspired us to take them for a drive into Richmond and then to take the new Canada Line into downtown Vancouver for a general visit and for a photo-taking tour and an eating out experiment. We are not good about going into Vancouver normally: too much traffic, too much trouble parking. But this made it easy and the Canada Line is indeed a fine light rail/subway/whatever category mode of transportation. And for this we must thank the fact of the 2010 Olympics because it wouldn't have been built but for that. It connects to many other transit forms in Vancouver and for our $7 day ticket, we could have gone lots more places than we did. A good day out.
