Three to go!

Mary finished up the radiation without severe difficulty this week. By Friday, however, she couldn't decide what she wanted for meals so I just fixed lunchtime sandwiches. Ingrid's chicken noodle soup was a big hit on Thursday. On Friday, I picked up dinner at Willow Street Pizza. Mary is doing great eating the artichoke, chicken and fusilli pasta and a romaine-gorgonzola salad. In fact, she ate the pasta leftovers for lunch today (Saturday). We have done the Willow Street takeout once or twice a month now for years so its kind of a reminder of 'normalcy' around here.

The Los Gatos restaurant has valet parking and the valet and I have struck up a conversational relationship over the past few years. This started when someone had given him some fancy HID headlights and he was trying to figure out how to put them on his car. The fact that the headlights were for a totally different car than his Honda didn't bother him at all. Wrong shape, wrong size, and wrong connector were not an issue for him.

Now, when I pull into the lot, I give him the keys, have a short chat, go get the food ordered by phone and when I return, he has reversed the car so I can make a fast getaway. He is clearly happiest when I show up in either the Jag or the Mercedes. The Humette does not light his fire in the same way.

The term HUMETTE comes from the custom plates on this magnificent vehicle. HUMETTE is supposed French for petite Hummer.

We took the dogs to the vet today for various check up items and a nice visit with Dr. Wiese. She has been looking after our dogs for a long time now and helped us with Wolfie last Valentine's Day and with Beau and his heart problems 13 years ago. She and the entire staff are great.

As for Mary, she does not have as much energy as last week but then again she has just completed five weeks of daily blasting her liver with radiation while on oral chemo. Three more treatments (Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday) and she is free of therapy and trips to Stanford until the 3rd week of September! Hooray!