Val just called with some results from her dad’s heart tests on Friday: apparently they show no perceivable blockage, which is good news. So no radical actions to be taken at present, but they’ll keep monitoring his heart (I’m not sure how yet) to track the episodes of slow-down. Deborah
Montana
Why are tests always on Fridays?
Report from Montana: No news yet. Miles had his stress test and various other investigations in Kalispell today, and they sent him home to await test results Monday. Nothing daunted, the family plans to spend Saturday in Libby at the girls’ high school basketball tournament. What could be more invigorating? Continue Reading
Montana heart
Just when you think things are settling down for five minutes… Val got a call from her dad in Montana yesterday (Wednesday). Miles said he’d been feeling a trifle weak, went to the town clinic and discovered that his heart rate is currently about 40 beats per minute. Which is Continue Reading
Belated Montana snow frolic pictures
What it looked like in Montana in late December: The view from the house: Tuley’s Snow Adventures, or, How to Tucker Out your Terrier: Amusements in zero-degree weather: Snow jumping keeps you warm(er): 1. Frosty Redfoot. 2. Driving home: turkeys obey no traffic laws: It sure is beautiful there. Cold, Continue Reading
Snowglee
I’m going through the Montana pictures and videos and thought you’d enjoy watching Tuley’s first foray in her homemade snow booties. She hadn’t been out of the house for three days for more than a minute at a time because of the cold, and she was ecstatic, if somewhat tractionless. Continue Reading
roller coaster
In the end the news was all good, but it was a bit of a rocky road yesterday morning getting there. Val’s scan was December 19. Friday tests are a drag because you don’t get the results till Monday. This was Val’s first scan since chemo ended so we couldn’t Continue Reading
In Montana, doing fine
Hi all, Just a quick note from a wifi cafe in Eureka, Montana to say that we made it out of Portland (despite some hairy conditions on I-84) and safely to Montana in one loooooong day last Saturday. It was -18 when we arrived and snowing beautifully. (Hey, does anyone Continue Reading
like shaved chocolate, like magnetic filings, like fragments of the whole
Here are some things that happened today and yesterday, both very fine and decent days. Yesterday Valerie called me from Montana. She and the dog were (she explained) sitting on a hill in the back pasture, regarding the sky. Only Tuley did not think they should sit still when there Continue Reading