{"id":54,"date":"2012-11-12T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/2012\/11\/12\/moving-forward\/"},"modified":"2012-11-12T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T22:22:00","slug":"moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Moving forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody please tell me where October and November went?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I checked out on 10\/19 and got over the anesthetic about 36 hours ago, it seems.&nbsp; The world went on, and apparently I had conversations I recall nothing of, and&nbsp;am delighted to hear I have agreed to a date&nbsp;at the opera in Houston next year!<\/p>\n<p>So, since coming home it&#8217;s just been hanging around getting over the Big Slice&#8230;&nbsp; My Halloween surprise this year, and it looks it.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&nbsp;Jerry and I&nbsp;ventured out to church, and I sat in the pew with Jerry and listened to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.st-louis.org\/\">magnificent choir and our terrific preacher<\/a>. Only missed one Sunday in the whole ordeal!&nbsp; Got seasick in the car for the first time but it quickly passed.&nbsp; Later in the day my friend Maria came over and took me to get my shingles vaccination, having convinced me that among my other woes, I really don&#8217;t need that one.<\/p>\n<p>Then today Kyle came over and we caught up on our life adventures, went out for a bit at <a href=\"http:\/\/cover-3.com\/\">Cover3<\/a> in the 65 degree weather with the warm sunshine on my shoulder.&nbsp; Oy, I feel a country song coming on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-hsvHlp_ZV_U\/UKF1qQ_80NI\/AAAAAAAABME\/yN7sXdX7nDE\/s1600\/me+without+hair.JPG\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-hsvHlp_ZV_U\/UKF1qQ_80NI\/AAAAAAAABME\/yN7sXdX7nDE\/s200\/me+without+hair.JPG\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>Afterward I had Kyle take me to get a buzz cut on the hair.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll see Kelly tomorrow, or&#8211;more to the point, Kelly will see <em>me <\/em>tomorrow&#8211;so I promptly took a picture of myself and put it on Facebook, hoping to lessen the shock of seeing me for the first time.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve broached the &#8220;c&#8221; word with Kelly now, and she knows I&#8217;m going to have chemo and will lose my hair.&nbsp; Jerry feels I went a bit extreme, but I feel it will lessen the shock when it starts falling out for serious.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve encouraged Kelly to go ahead and have Thanksgiving with promised-one Sterling and his family this year.&nbsp; Sterling&#8217;s folks moved to Galveston several years ago&nbsp;just in time for Ike to wipe their home&nbsp;and his step-dad&#8217;s job off the map.&nbsp; Since then they&#8217;ve been regrouping and finally have built their dream house in Elgin, after a long stretch in the RV.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a very exciting Thanksgiving for them, with all the grandbabies and family.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Sterling and his family are a vital part of Kelly&#8217;s network of support, and again, we are actively taking advantage of this episode in our lives to strengthen it.&nbsp; Kelly has known the family for as long as she can remember.&nbsp; She&nbsp;&nbsp;loves them and they love her.&nbsp; They are our older daughters&#8217; ages and will be here when we are gone.<\/p>\n<p>I can hardly wait to start hugging all my buddies at the Ranch.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve had a virus going around and I&#8217;ve stayed away as long as I can to avoid it.&nbsp; But now&#8230;it&#8217;s time.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody please tell me where October and November went?&nbsp; I checked out on 10\/19 and got over the anesthetic about 36 hours ago, it seems.&nbsp; The world went on, and apparently I had conversations I recall nothing of, and&nbsp;am delighted to hear I have agreed to a date&nbsp;at the opera in Houston next year! 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