Like they say, the best laid plans of mice and men etc... We had planned to spend a few days back home in the Berkshires before my second chemo treatment this Thursday (see the previous post). We would leave the Cape Sunday after our girls headed home and return Wednesday evening. Then came the forecast of more snow. Well, maybe we would have to come home Tuesday instead. The forecasts for both the Berkshires and the Cape had the snow starting midday Tuesday, so we would leave Lenox early Tuesday, 7 AM or so, and beat the snow home. This looked good right through midday Monday, the last time I checked before heading to my sister's house for a delicious dinner. When we got home about 7:30 PM, there was a call from my son at the Cape. Had we seen the weather forecast? Did we know the snow was due to start after midnight Monday? Well, no. We hadn't been paying attention. So, in the next hour we packed up the car, closed up the house (a regular ritual of energy-saving and burglar-defying actions to take) and hit the road about 8PM. We arrived at our condo at 11PM, got unpacked and tried to wind down. Way too much driving in one 24-hour period. I don't know about Nancy, but I'm getting too old for this. We did sleep quite a bit later than usual this morning, which isn't saying a lot since we normally get up earlier than the roosters.
It was snowing this morning when we awoke, but turned to rain in early afternoon. Driving was slippery, but not too bad. I suspect it was worse in the Berkshires. Tomorrow is forecast to be considerably worse - snow, ice and freezing rain. At any rate, I'm very glad we got the call last night. I would not have wanted to drive home in the snow this morning.
I still feel remarkably well. I'm told it should be worse with succeeding chemo treatments because each one does more damage to the healthy as well as the cancer cells. I'm thinking it's not going to be too bad. We'll see.
Finally, when we got home last night there was a package in the mail, from my son and daughter-in-law in Atlanta. It was a DVD set of season two of the A-Team. What a wonderful, totally unexpected, surprise. And I had just watched season one last week. Now I can take my time and not have to worry about a due date. What would I do without my kids?
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