Day 184, Year 11: A Wonderful Day
Date: Saturday, April 23, 2016
Weather: Mostly Sunny and Cooler, High in the 60’s F
Location: At Home in Evergreen Preserve, Lowell, MA
It was a wonderful day. The most wonderful thing that happened today is that Mark is back. For some reason he decided to skip taking the anti-nausea meds yesterday and discovered last night that he was not nauseous. He did, however, have severe stomach pains that he hasn’t had for about a month, but he took extra pain meds for that. Today he took no anti-nausea meds and he had a great day—no nausea, no drowsiness. He was really back to being himself and could eat whatever he wanted. We can’t figure out why this has happened, but we won’t look a gift horse in the mouth. We are just grateful and hope it continues.
The second wonderful thing was our big outing north to Goffstown, New Hampshire, to the Benedikt Dairy Farm to buy 100% grass-fed, organic beef liver and fresh eggs. Mark’s blood tests yesterday showed a borderline low HCT (hematocrit) count meaning that he has too few red blood cells. And this puts him in the borderline anemic category. What we have done in the past to combat this is to have him eat organic beef liver and beets. We already had the beets but needed the organic beef liver. The farm in Goffstown was the closest source I could find, so off we went. The farm is in a beautiful location on the top of a hill. You go into the farm stand store which is in a barn right on the road. I had called ahead for the beef liver and it was in the cooler in a bag marked with my name. I took that and got into the adjacent cooler for eggs and then entered what I had taken and the price of each in a book. You then put the amount owed in a box. It felt really good to buy food in this manner—so much nicer than the supermarket.
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| 160423 Day 184 Cape Cod, USA–Benedikt Dairy Farm |
And the third wonderful thing that happened today is that we received an email from Lynda Kaufman reporting that she and Lee had taken five carts of stuff off Windbird today and will return tomorrow for more. They are taking only those things off the boat that are out in plain sight and they are not completely done with that. How many carts will it take once we delve into all the storage cabinets? I don’t even want to make a guess. But we are so incredibly thankful to Lee and Lynda for getting this process started. Thank you, thank you.
We heard from both of our children today. Justin, Jo, Ziggy, and Coco were still in Culebra this morning when Justin called. They have had an incredibly good time camping at Flamenco Beach. They are staying in the Soul Pad, the tent they lived in for a few months in what became known as the Pirate Camp. Ziggy asked yesterday why people try to pretend they are not animals by living in houses. But they are returning to mainland Puerto Rico tomorrow to live once more in house. Flamenco Beach is one of the most beautiful beaches in the world, so I understand why Ziggy would just like to stay there. We heard from Heather this evening that she and her brood are back on Cape Cod after having a great time in DC. We are so glad that both families had so much fun on their spring vacations.
