Still going to cardio rehab which consists of M-W-F treadmill, cardio education and upper body strength exercises with elastic bands rated at different weights as well as Thursday physical therapy for the ongoing neuropathy in the back of my right leg probably dating back to lying in bed and pressing on my nerve through my right hip. Still feeling out of breath climbing stairs. Not back on a street bike yet. Some days I hobble and understand my friends with lower back pain a little better; some days I walk more normally. Thank goodness for hydrocodone!
Brother Jay and wife Maryann visited for a week from NY and experienced me still having fatigue side effects from cumulative chemo: nasty stuff that poison! So Maryann walked all over southeast Portland on her own while I rested, and Jay taped a Nova-like show at a downtown recording studio. I am also volunteering again to do AARP tax preparation which was delayed last Thursday through the weekend by 6 inches of snow and ice on the ground: most in Portland since February, 1993. One day we started out to walk 5 blocks to return library books but were forced to abandon the trip after one block due to treacherous conditions.
This town has no capacity to remove snow and ice so it just wisely shuts down when that happens. I hear Austin has had a series of precautionary school "snow days" as well, however necessary they may have been in hindsight.
Good friend Christy flew in from Austin yesterday, and Fabio, our Swiss foreign exchange student of five years ago, is driving up from LA in late March so company continues to arrive to amuse, entertain, distract and enjoy Portland with us. It is great for me as it makes me get out into the world more.
Hope you all are doing well as Spring arrives confused by winter weather.
From Portland where a full day's work is at least 4 hours a day and cosmetic make up is seen primarily at Comic Con and Star Trek conventions,
Happy Valentine's Day to each of you!
lynn
