PRESENT

Back at home from Idaho.I had a wonderful time with my sisters and Mom. My nephews were great fun too. Janet has a beautiful home in Gozzar. She and Wayne were the perfect hosts. Yes, I can say home again. Transition was not fun, I think that I can have fun again. My life seems to never settled down. Bobby yesterday had to go to the dentist for an excruciating toothache. It led us to emergency surgery to extract the molar that had been crowned the year before. For those of you that don't have dental insurance it is quite a bite on the wallet. The thing that really shocked me was how big his tooth was. I do feel bad for him. He was in a lot of pain. The surgeon was great, he told us if Bobby hadn't gotten in he would have ended up in the hospital. The infection had almost gone into the blood stream. All is well now. I have my first doctors appointment with the Oncologist here in St. Louis Wednesday. Not really looking forward to that one, but I'm late on my treatment. I hope I like him. Can't stand doctors that don't have time for you. The house is coming along. I took the kids to the movie yesterday. It was Alex, Bobby, and my nephew Chris. We saw the art film The Beginners. It was suppose to be a comedy. I didn't know it was a tragic comedy, about a father dying of cancer. Flashback. My kids weren't real happy with me. So I decided to have my first dinner party with them. I fixed a salad with crostini and pesto to start. Then linguine with two sauces red with spicy Italian sausage, and shrimp with a white wine cream sauce. We had a great time chatting and laughed about the bad choice in film. We also told old Mike stories and all was good.