Radiation, Hotels and a Passing

Well, let me start by letting you know that our dog Walter passed away peacefully during the night. I've been talking on here about how his health has been declining lately. Yesterday he didn't eat, and seemed very tired, but was still loving and wanted to be right with his family. He was pretty still late last night, but didn't seem to be in any pain or discomfort. When I checked on him this morning, he was gone. He was a good boy, and we'll miss him very much.

As for Bob and I, we are still in the middle of getting him to his radiation treatments. I posted last time I think, that Scott and White Hospital and the LaQuinta Inn had given us a room free for three nights last week. That worked out so much better for Bob. He made all 5 of his daily treatments last week, didn't miss a one. I drove back and forth from Temple to Taylor to feed the dogs and then to work three days last week. I'm a little tired too, but we're both hanging in there.

I went in Wednesday to pay ourselves for Thursday night and was told that because they were booked up that we would have to pay a higher rate, of 89 dollars, rather than the 62 dollar special medical rate. So I was nice but made arangements to talk to the hotel manager the next day. I told him what our situation was and turns out he also has cancer. He said his prognosis is very good. He was a military career man, and war veteran who got cancer because of contact with agent orange. Anyway, he was so nice to us. He gave us the room for free Thursday night, and then for this coming week is giving us the rate of 49.00 a night, and then he said if he can swing it somedays he might be able to do 33.00 a night. We are so very very thankful. What a peach of a guy. That will really help us out. And speaking of helping us out, thank you so much Tamara. You know what for. You are also a peach.

Bob is still very tired, coughing a lot and feels short of breath frequently. So far the only side effect of the treatment we have seen is just worse fatigue. I'm hoping that's as bad as it gets, but I realize there could be more things happening in the upcoming weeks.

So we have 5 more treatments coming up this week. I'm going to try to make it to work every day. We'll see, I'll do my best anyway.

Carol