Day 145, Year 8: Time to Celebrate
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013
Weather: Still Cool, but Continually Warming
Location: At Home with Patsy and Joe, Calabash, NC
Patsy, Joe, and I drove to Charleston early this morning for Patsy’s post-surgery appointment and the news was wonderful, fantastic, and any other adjective you can think of that means great. The biopsy report validated what we had been led to believe. Her uterine cancer was caught very early and no cancer was found in any of the 50 lymph nodes removed during surgery. So she will not have to have any follow-up treatment. What a relief! After going through chemo with Mark, I was certainly hoping my sister was not going to have to go through either radiation or chemo and now we know that for sure, she doesn’t. So it is time to celebrate and get on with the recovery process.
Today’s trip to Charleston is probably the last trip I’ll make there before returning to Cape Cod in late April so I have attached a couple of photos from our Charleston trips while Patsy was in the hospital there. We really haven’t gotten to explore the city, but there are a couple of things that you can’t miss. One is the bridge that serves as the gateway to Charleston and the other is the fields of sweetgrass along the highway on the way there. The town just before Charleston is Mount Pleasant, and just north of there the sweetgrass is found on both sides of the road, as well as sweetgrass baskets for sale. The making of these baskets is a three century-old African-American tradition, with the original coiled basket-making process coming across the ocean from Africa. They were once practical work baskets, but at the same time they were beautiful and coveted today by tourists. I’d love to own one, but they are just too expensive.
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