We had a 7 am flight Thursday morning so we opted to stay at the Hilton at the airport the night before. Bill, Kara, Ted and I all drove to Sandy’s on Beech in Redford to pick up dinner and went to visit Bill’s cousin who we know well. We had a great visit before being dropped off at the hotel. We set a 4:30 alarm and turned in early. Our trip home was every bit as easy and pleasant as our flight up. We were home by 10:30 having landed at the airport 40 minutes early.
We didn’t do much over the weekend. I fell asleep New Year’s Eve and woke up at 12:10 am. I missed the ball drop and saying goodbye to 2021. I don’t think 2022 is going to be a heck of a lot better, especially for me. I am calling it the Trifecta of lousy years!
We went to Mass Saturday night. I had a pot roast in the crockpot and we stopped at Kroger to get noodles and there weren’t any except one bag of some kind of special noodles that cooked in 3 minutes and cost $6. This shortage of things is getting scary!
We left at 7:30 am for Mission on Sunday morning and our trip was smooth except for tremendous wind gusts. The Expedition got buffeted around pretty good. We decided to stay on 77 out of Victoria all the way to Harlingen to go right to Mexico to buy the medicines we needed. We then drove to our Hilton hotel, arriving at 1:30. Terrific time!
Our next door neighbors on Lark had invited us for dinner so after settling in and resting a bit we went to their coach house. Ted also went next door to get access to the coach house where our stuff was for something he needed. He met the guy who has sublet from us. We had a very pleasant evening and it was quite late when we left.
Monday we returned to Mexico to get the balance of the Volfenac arthritis cream that many had asked us to get for them. We didn’t want to buy it all at once. It is not a prescription anymore in the US but the strength is more and price is less. We didn’t want them to think we were reselling it for profit. I bought CeCe a pair of PJs and some training pants so we both had something else to say we bought. Ted told them he had PJ’s and arthritis cream, They just waved him through. He didn’t even ask me!
We told Jay and Stella, old Texas Boomer friends, we wanted to visit but would come after lunch and leave before dinner. They are both using canes now because of infirmaries in her knees and his back. This getting old business is seriously bad for your health!
From there we went to Trudy and Don’s motorhome to meet up for dinner. We went to the Republic of Texas restaurant for dinner and then returned to our hotel.
Niles and Sue asked us to meet them at Diaz Diner for breakfast before his doctor’s appointment on Tuesday. He is dealing with cancer also and we wanted to be sure to see them and agreed. We spent about an hour and a half with them and then left for the Mission Skeet Club where Ted was meeting Dave and others to shoot, and Karen and I were going shopping. We had intended to go to Butterfly Boutique, a cancer prosthetics store to look at headgear and wigs. When I looked up the opening time it said Permanently Closed. So we just went to the mall. I bought a 3T jacket for CeCe for next year at Dillard’s then we met Ted and Dave at Cheddar’s for lunch. I had a kids grilled cheese. Too much eating out!
Our afternoon was to visit Steve and Marisa who sold their spot, trailer and truck only to return, buying a one bedroom casita with room for their Class B motorhome and new truck. It is very nice. Ted said he wanted to stop to say hello to Norm and Emily so we dropped in unannounced. They were eating and insisted we come in and visit because they could nuke it later. When we were leaving, Sue came by walking Sammy so we got to talk to her some more. Niles still did not get a 12/13 pathology report and she was pretty upset.
We came home after that to put our feet up. We have covered a lot of ground in a little bit of time.
I decided to show a visual of the size of my cancer, 1.3 mm. That is a spot from the red line to less than half way between the first two green lines. No wonder no one can feel it! It made me feel better about my situation.
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