Dear family and friends,
Rainy weekend. Due to our nephew Cole and Betty Edmonson’s wedding in Charlotte Saturday, we had the pleasure of seeing son Aaron, up from Orlando, daughter Sarah and beau Jeremy, in from Hilton Head. They met up at our house on The Ridge for a shared trip to the “Queen City.” We also inherited Aaron’s dog, Buddy the Drooler, for an overnighter.
| Buddy |
Nora spent most of the time in her new chair, resting up. She was surrounded by a wall of dogs, laying in a semicircle around the foot of her chair, very attuned to her every move. All five of us enjoyed the Derby.
Nora’s heightened energy and appetite have worn off since the blood infusion two weeks ago, typical for chemo patients. Her numbers were lower last Thursday, also typical. Remember, the stuff they pump Due to the lowering of her immune system Nora can’t be around crowds. Our friend and neighbor into her each week is an indiscriminate killer, doing its job.
Melanie, asked me the other day if Nora was still in “lock down.” We laughed but sometimes it feels like that.
“Rush Hour,” Boyd Creek
We spend our time at home, me in the office and Nora walking the dogs, enjoying the spectacular view, and whizzing through her multiple computer games. I no longer tease her about her laptop. She remains something of a Luddite, but the geek in her also shows. We were given a slide show of Cole and Betty’s wedding in almost real time.
Thank you all so much for your encouragement, your help, your kind thoughts. Please let your friends know about Nora. She spent 25 years caring for gardens, then the owners of those gardens, then simply others, the oldest of us.
Paul