Happy Anniversary and Thanksgiving

Hello all,
After almost three weeks in the hospital, Betsy came home on November 18th with a couple stents in duodenum. That seems to have helped with her chronic nausea, but her ability to eat is greatly diminished. Pain is still an issue, but we're dealing with that.

On November 24th Betsy and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. For a whole lot of reasons we weren't able to return to St Martin where we honeymooned. When I asked Betsy a couple of months ago what would be an acceptable plan B , she said she would go for Happy Hour in the family room of the new home.

While the medical team was doing their thing, the whole construction team stepped up their efforts to make that happen. This past Wednesday the 24th, the plumber, the electrician, the painter, the HVAC guys and trim crew finished construction to the point that I could declare things "DONE". Here's some updated pictures.

Sure, there's a myriad of little things to do before we occupy the place, but that evening Betsy enjoyed wine and cheese in her new home's family room!

But wait, there's more, the next day, Thanksgiving, Kevin and Andrew joined us at "A shore Thing". We had planned to do Thanksgiving dinner at the carriage house. I figured I'd do the turkey on the grill, and the we'd use the toaster oven and microwave for the other stuff.

Instead we did this .

Now that the place is built Betsy needs to live there. Please keep her in your prayers.

Ralph

Ralph? "Who's Ralph" you say and what's Ralph got to do with Betsy. In this case Ralph isn't a who or a what, rather it is this. Though Betsy hasn't had chemo in sometime, the effects of it as well as the disease itself is playing havoc on Betsy's system. Previous posts have chronicled the dehydration and such.

For some time now Betsy has been afflicted with chronic nausea. We've been trying to figure out what's going on while also trying to rule out certain foods. So far, the best things are the BRAT (bananas, rice, applesauce and toast) diet. YUCK, you would think after all this woman has been through she should be able to eat and drink whatever she pleases. Cholesterol be damned we're talking high end artery clogging stuff!

So here we are, once again at Mercy Hospital where the team is taking cultures, samples, vital statics, and performing all manner is ministrations to figure this out.

Betsy is tough, but she is tired. She's tired of the constant nausea, she's tired of felling like crap, she's tired of constantly feeling wrung out and she's tired of being literally tired. It used to be I was the only one not sleeping at night!

Please continue to keep Betsy in your thoughts and prayers.